Life's Lessons

We Love Our Families With All Our Hearts

We are on a mission teaching the gospel and we talk a lot about families.
We are teaching families how to do their Family History so they will know their families and can do the temple work for them. Families are the most important thing we have because we will be together as families in the Eternities. That makes us so happy. . . We have not met very many children since we came to Fairbanks because we mostly work with mother's, dad's and couples without children so it makes us miss our grandkids a lot.

Our hearts are turned to our grandchildren more than we ever have before and we are so thankful for every one of them. We know how sad it would be if we didn't know that we will be home in 1 1/2 short years to see them again.

The scripture that we use to teach people about family history fits our family as well. This scripture is found in the last book in the Old Testament page 1184.

Malachi 4:5-6 Behold I will send Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord; And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

ALASKA IS COLD

The weather has been very cold in Fairbanks. In fact it is the coldest it has been in 107 years. We have had about 3 weeks of -40 degree temperatures with the coldest being -51 degrees on January 28, 2006. We are warm and only feel the cold when we run from our warm car to a warm house or store.

On the very coldest day Grandma ran without a cap from one store into another, thinking it wouldn't be very cold. Just as she got to the door her ears hurt very bad. She realized that her earring post were metal and picked up the cold, transferring it into her ears. They were sore and red for a whole week. We were reading the scriptures when grandpa started laughing "Here is my life's lesson."

2 Nephi 13:17-18 (Abridged by grandpa) Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the (ear) of the daughters of Zion. And in that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments, and cauls, and round tires like the moon.