Sweet Sunday's

Yesterday was an interesting day. I would like to share it with you. In Relief Society I enjoyed the lesson the sister prepared on the life of President Hinckley. It was actually more of a group effort sharing our feelings and testimonies of President Hinckley as a prophet. I shared some of my feelings about my favorite talk that I shared earlier. I would have liked to have shared how I loved him before he was a prophet because he was the apostle that I thought looked like my Grandpa Kunz. We would always gather around the TV excitedly anticipating the talk from the apostle who looked like grandpa. I also wanted to share my experience with spirit when I learned for the first time that a prophet (Gordon B. Hinckley) really was the prophet of God. Since there wasn't too much time I decided to only share that which I thought would benefit others spiritually.

I had a little frustration with Sunday School as it was so full of "teaching" that I wasn't able to share with the class what I had learned from reading the lesson. I wish so much that we would all read the lessons so that the teachers could focus on applying the scriptures instead of giving us a 40 minute recap of them. It was a good lesson and she pointed out things that I hadn't noticed. I'm glad that I don't have the responsibility to teach the adults, but I wish that we were learning more as adults and not so much as youth. That is just my personal feelings.

I was really looking forward to sharing my testimony in Sacrament meeting when I was let down. As the meeting started the counselor told the congregation that the microphone was not working and we would have to do without. It was very difficult to hear and I didn't want to go up and yell my testimony as I would have to do in any hopes to be heard. I was amazed though how well our men responded to this need. About half way through the meeting they had found a back up system and had a microphone that was able to amplify the sound well enough to be heard. As I sat there thinking of all of this I was reminded of the scriptures where King Benjamin (I believe) had to stand on a tower in order to be heard. I was number one so grateful for the modern day technology, and number two grateful to those who were willing to sit and endure that kind of atmosphere in order to hear the prophets voice. It is truly amazing. I was also grateful to be able to bear my witness of President Hinckley as a prophet and Jesus Christ as my savior.

After church I was able to watch the prophets funeral that I had recorded while I was working the day before. It was a really nice funeral and I was grateful to be able to watch it. I have some very strong feelings after watching the funeral that I wish to share in it's own seperate blog. I will have to wait to write that when my house is quiet and I can focus on that blog.

To finish off the day we went to Kent's brother Spencer's for the super bowl. It was really nice to let Braxton get together with his cousins and play. It was also nice for him to be able to have some fun with a whole bunch of new toys. He loved their little play house as well as the many different cars and trucks that they had. It always amazed me that with so many choices of things to play with he always chooses the toys with wheels.