October - Mom & Dad

Dear Family,
    Our love to all of you out there! We are late as are quite a few of you. Dennis was on his toes this trip around and has his in already...on time. We will hope to hear from all of you at least by this Sunday coming up!
    Our thought is taken from a talk given by Richard C. Edgley, 1st Counselor, Presiding Bishopric.
I myself had always wondered about faith moving a mountain. I look at the Wasatch Mountains that are around us and I wonder about that saying. Brother Edgley sort of cleared my thoughts on that. I know that a prophet of old did move a mountain because of his great faith, but, I wondered. He said that Faith is a choice that must be sought after and developed. Each of us are responsible for our own faith....or the lack thereof. It is through choosing faith that individuals are able to move mountains. Think about this....He says "I have seen a 'mountain' of doubt and despair removed and replaced with optimism and hope. Because of faith I have personally witnessed a 'mountain' of sin replaced with repentance and forgiveness. And because of faith I have personally witnessed a 'mountain' of pain replaced with peace...Yes, I have seen 'mountains' removed."
    I know that each of us have various kinds of 'mountains' or happenings in our lives and I also know that if we remain true and have faith to endure, we will see those 'mountains' removed from our lives too. Replaced with the shinning goodness and love of our Heavenly Father and His son, Jesus Christ...Hang in there all of you...Keep the Faith...and move forward. As I give this to you, remember that dad and I have our mountain of problems too...this thought is for us also.
    We have been walking ourselves silly again this year with those so called Yellow Phone Books. So far we have done over a thousand books and we are looking at 900 more. The joy of it all!! It helps $$ wise somewhat. I do a lot of walking but not near what your dad does. I mostly bag the books as each one of them are suppose to be in bags and sitting at the hinged side of the front door. I hate steps...porches that have more than four steps to the front door need to be much less for these old legs. Well, with dad doing the newspaper run he is not going to the gym with me. Believe me he gets enough exercise doing that with all the ins and outs of the car to each home. So along with that and these phone books he is rather tired to say the least. But I suppose it keeps us alive and active.......I am trying to be positive here .
    Okay, I told you all about getting a shot in my heel last month and how much it helped me and the doctor told me I had young bones and my sister tells me...yessss, but you have old muscles. So when I went in for the second shot last Friday, I told her about that and she laughed and said that my muscles were most likely like my bones....so I reported this to my sisters and my sister says yessss, but you have old skin.....man, that put me right back on the ground again. So, instead of a swollen head from this information, I became grounded and humbled.
    At family home evening. Sunday night, my brother told about searching our family on the new website and he followed the Seymour line and ended up finding a link to royalty. Yes, we have dukes, queens and kings in our blood. He followed it back and he ended up with some really cool stuff and in fact, and I don't know how it happened as I have not checked it out yet, he found that the line goes back to 300 years BC. That is so great! The work for these people has been done by someone who has a bit more information that we do that is for sure. Just thought I would pass that on to you. I then informed my dear sisters that I had young bones and muscles, old skin and I am a blue blood...royalty!! I can live with the old skin! Well thats about it for this time...oh yes, I have about 30 more miles to swim and I will have a two hundred mile swim in. yes, it may of taken almost 2 years to do it, but it is being done!!! Fall is upon us...enjoy the beauty of the earth. Be thankful that  my zucchini plant is about done for!!!Everyone that has received offerings from me in various ways is happy as can be. Maybe they will let me in their homes and cars without locking me out to check and see if I am carrying (bringing) one of those green things to them. Grow zucchini and loose friends and family...even strangers run. Such is life! Be good my darling family! Keep the faith and love the Lord. He truly loves each one of you............
Love always    Mom and Dad  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo