What a great weekend with summer weather and a little relaxation. And a little work. Doug and I attended a temple session Friday for ward temple night, a great date for sure. On Saturday we went to a fun wedding reception in Bloomingdale and today we shampooed the carpets. The temperature was an unbelievable 90 degrees the last two days!Today Doug wanted to burn some of the logs from old trees in our old charcoal barbeque grill, so we got perfect coals for cooking hot dogs and s'mores. Clarissa was a good sport and went with us for a walk in a forest preserve this afternoon and we topped it off with a movie in the living room. What an exciting life we live here!
Speaking of the temple, it was on June 23, 1977 that Max LaVell and Garda Heaton were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple, as you can see on the right. They were sealed to their children the next day, which was also the anniversary of their civil marriage. They were wonderful and amazing days, a surprise to everyone. When Max was ordained to the Melchizedec priesthood in January 1977, he said, "I was baptized in a muddy river in Kane County when I was eight, but was converted to the gospel when I was 54."
Soon after that ordination, he was called as an advisor in the Young Men program and threw himself into it with his whole soul. On Sunday, August 7th he spoke in church about the Plan of Salvation and his newly-found understanding of it with regard to family members who had passed on. He bore a strong testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel, that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and that God lives. Three days later he died from a massive stroke. What a great legacy was left by this wonderful couple.
I'll soon be switching over to some Gregersen/Adamson family history, so stay tuned! SH
2 comments:
This is really wonderful to know. Thank you so much for posting this
And Keith got to have some of Granny's "Wedding" cake. Not too many people can say that!
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