Family and Church History Headquarters Mission 2013

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What Goes Around Comes Around

You've heard the expression, "What comes around, goes around".  Consider what might be  "coming around" to us because of what we are "going around" doing.  Read on to find a wonderfully surprising outcome to this common admonition.   I'm not sure if the story is true, but I like its lesson in any case.  

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“His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman’s sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

‘I want to repay you,’ said the nobleman. ‘You saved my son’s life.’

‘No, I can’t accept payment for what I did,’ the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer’s own son came to the door of the family hovel.

‘Is that your son?’ the nobleman asked.

‘Yes,’ the farmer replied proudly.

‘I’ll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he’ll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.’

And that he did.

Farmer Fleming’s son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman’s son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.

What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill … His son’s name? – Sir Winston Churchill.”

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Are You Still With Me?

Hi Friends!

I know it's been two weeks since my last blog entry. What a slacker I am! 

I hope you had a wonderful Easter. Below are a few pictures of the latest happenings, including a touching Easter dinner picnic with neighbors, sisters and elders. Temple Square is beautiful in the Spring! The daffodils, pansies, and hyacinths are in bloom, with tulips to follow this week. I will have many more pictures of flowers and gardens within the next two weeks. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, enjoy these pictures of General Conference. I was able to attend two sessions inside the conference center. I sang with what I call “The Street Choir” on Saturday morning. I used my new mini hymn book to sing along. Wow, I got really choked up when we began to sing “Called To Serve”. I guess I always will from now on. 

 “Called to know the richness of His blessing- sons and daughters, children of a King... God our strength will be; press forward ever, Called to serve our King.” 

 I enjoyed watching the two other general sessions that followed with fellow missionary sisters inside nearby auditoriums. I made friends with a few more sisters that weekend. What a fun group!

For more information about:

•  The 183rd General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  
  

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Easter Morning with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Bells

Easter surprise---seeing Larry on Easter sunday! 

Easter Picnic Dinner

 

Marie Osmond @ Deseret Books

Facing the Conference Center

Ready for General Conference!

Singing with the "street choir"!

Escorted into the Conference Center

 

Going to "Ladies Night" with my Sisters

I met her last year at "Ladies Night".  A few moments before taking this picture, she was talking with a friend about me, and wondered if I had been called to serve a mission yet, and where.  Just then, I walked by her!  She came over, and asked for an update.  I was excited to tell her, "I'm currently on my mission, and I'm serving HERE!" 

Ladies Night 2013- Mmmm, chocolate!

Lunch with the Torres family

What a treat!  Lunch in the Relief Society building with Sister Torres and her family

Elders next door