Sunday January 4 (pictures)

First of all......Dussy Boy is my hero!!!!

.....Like the very coolest guy around!

He connected remotely to my computer and got it fixed.

How great is he!

He is super awesome!!!!

(Was that enough brown nosing Duss???)

Pays to have a brilliant computer genius as a nephew :)

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Our church time changed to 1:00.

It will take some time to get used to....but it's good.

It was a nice day today.

Dad came for Sacrament meeting again.

We went early so we could meet up with Bro. White to have our temple recommends renewed.

That was something that should have happened in the last few weeks......but didn't :(

So thankful that Bro. White was on top of things and got us in right away.

It was fast Sunday today and testimony meeting.

I knew at the beginning that I was gonna go up and share my testimony.

Every time someone went up, my heart pounded louder.

And then Cassi wanted to go up.

I thought that it would be easier to go up with her.

She went first, and she had a beautiful testimony about families and how we can work harder together and grow closer in our trials.

Little stinker, had me choked up before I even got up.

That really is the scariest place for me to be....out there in front of everyone.

It is comparable to being on the edge of a cliff to me.....major heart pounding out of my chest.

I'm not completely sure what I said......

But when we were driving home from Utah, I listened to the last of the Book of Mormon that I have been reading this year.

Moroni chapter 7 was exactly what I needed to hear.

Specifically verse 5, where it says "For I remember the word of God which saith by their works ye shall know them; for if their works be good, then they are good also."

We have been so blessed to see the "good works" of so many people over the last few weeks.

People who don't serve and help out for themselves.....but out of real love and want to help someone in need.

People are so good.

Our lives have been made better....our hearts have been filled.

Our view of service has forever been changed for the good.

To be on the other side, the side of receiving so many "good works" from others.....is very humbling.

It's not easy to "need" help and to not be able to just take everything on and do it yourselves.

But allowing others to serve you gives you that breathing room to deal with whatever it is you are dealing with....physically, emotionally, or spiritually.

I also talked about having faith.

Faith that if we are doing the things we should be doing, and have faith in God, that everything is gonna be okay.

Having that Faith is huge.

I am not gonna lie.

These last few weeks have been harder than I thought they would.

Well, obviously harder than what we originally planned when it was supposed to be an easy surgery...

It's been even harder than I thought it would be when we knew it would be a long road.

But as long as we stick together, and love each other, and show patience, and make good decisions......it's gonna be okay.

And I do have Faith in that.

I brought dad home after getting the kids to their classes, and also doing our tithing settlement.

With the craziness of the last few weeks, we obviously didn't get in for that.

Their classes with their new teachers...

They all went to class good.

Port's teacher is the same one he had as a Sunbeam, and he loves her and he is excited about it.

Sounds like he got a little emotional at one point, but he has been clingy lately, which isn't surprising to me.

Elsie's teachers just got called today, so she actually had Sister Larsen as her sub....which was just great.

But she did get to meet her new teachers.

I also talked with them.

I think it will be a good match.

Elsie is excited.

So I took Brent home and went back for YW.

It was a great lesson.

Introducing the new Theme for the year.

"Oh ye that Embark in the Service of God"

It was such a great lesson and such a great way to start the year off.