It was my day off..I am not sure what that really means. I did sit on the couch and read 3 April Conference talks which doesn’t happen on my working days.
I did some finance tasks and ordered a book for the LDS Earthstewardship book club. The book is The Earth Shall Appear as the Garden of Eden. It is a collection of essays from LDS authors on nature. I am excited to start reading it. I also read a story in the Orion magazine. Peter who runs the book club has a subscription to Orion and he brought the magazine’s out to me a couple of weeks ago. It has been very enjoyable to read the stories and poetry.
I spent quite a bit if time grading papers and working on things for BYU clinical. I didn’t finish but I made some headway. I wanted to get my lesson plan for Wednesday and Thursday classes ready but I will have to work on that in my free time tomorrow.
Gil and I went this evening to Home Depot and bought the wood/supplies needed for the shelving and work bench in my shed. I am excited to help Gil get the shelves put in place.
A very important thing I did today was to get names to take to the temple. I have a goal of going to the temple at least once a week. I am doing an endowment session on Thursday afternoon. I will do sealings next week. I love the technology behind the Take a Name Ordinance ready function on the LDS website. It allows me to see how each name that I take to the temple is related to me. I had no idea until I started using this function, that I have so many ancestors from the Alsace Lorraine area of France/Germany. I would to visit there someday and maybe meet some of my distant relatives. The connection is through the Lemmon line. Such an amazing blessing to be part of the gathering of Israel.
“Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love…Morevoer, we can’t fully appreciate joyful reunions later without tearful separations now. The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.”
President Russell M. Nelson
I read this quote in Sis. Aburto’s April 2021 conference talk and thought it was pretty profound. A great argument for focusing on love and joy at all times.
