BUSY WEEKEND

Dear Family,

We had a busy weekend some of which was spent in the Salt Lake Temple.  I mentioned below that on Saturday, we attended Becky Christensen's sealing in the Temple which was great.  We attended the luncheon as well.

Following this, we attended Jeanne Pfeifer's funeral memorial service.  She passed away following a siege of emergency surgery for a difficult problem.  The funeral was different as there was  not body or viewing.  It turns out that Utah along with a few other states do not permit the transport of dead bodies on
Sunday so she was sent back to Michigan where she will be buried next to her husband, Jack.  There was a funeral service in Michigan which Bryan attended. The memorial here was visited by the Michigan crowd who have settled here in the west.  Pam and the kids did a great job and it was a very nice tribute/

There was the adult session of our stake conference in our stake house.  We missed the Sunday session because of conflicting meetings.  Sunday morning, we attended the Salt Lake Temple devotional service for temple workers.  We got up early and were in our seats by 7:45.  This was in the assembly room on the fifth floor and we did not have to be in whites.  It was a great service and the music was wonderful.  The main hall was full as one side of the balcony, well over a 1000.  Elder Ballard gave a moving talk presenting history of his families involvement with temple work since the beginning.  I thought it was wonderful.

We drove over to Cheryl's ward for the Primary program. The theme here was "I am a Child of God".  I took this picture of the practice but it is not a good photo.  There is Johnny in the right front.  Behind him is Emmy with her pretty blond hair.  In the back with back turned and in purple is Cheryl who teaches in the Primary.  Johnny was right in front and just belted out the songs,  Olivia, Emily and Johnny did well with their parts.  We went to Cheryl's for brunch.  They showed me how to make Karen's version of "GermanPancakes" and it was good.  Paul made Fretates (?sp).  Paul is quite a chef along with other things.

We then rushed over to Doug's ward where they had the Primary program.  The Title was the same, "I am a Child of God".  The program was great.  They sang that Primary hymn first with ALS signing, the second verse in French and the third in English.  Spencer (now a Deacon) gave a good talk and Tommy and Izzie also had parts.  It was great!

We are trying to keep up with all the family events and as long as we can we will continue this effort. Becca will be coming up to bless her baby in our ward.  Am so grateful I can be around to be part of these great family events.

Love, Mom and Dad