We started off Monday morning with a devotional by President and Sister Howes. They spoke on D&C 121 and it was beautiful. The last two verses of that section are just so wonderful: ...doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven...it shall flow unto thee forever and ever. So good!
We walked up to the Capitol and down into Memory Grove again but went a little further this time and it was beautiful with the trees turning yellow and being able to get out of all the city noise for a while.
The beauty of a quiet road
Tuesday we went on a Salt Lake Cemetery tour with a woman who works in the Church History Library. She had some great stories about several of the pioneers who are buried there and also about some slightly less famous people like the "pickled pioneer" who was carted to Salt Lake from Montana or Wyoming in pickle juice (to keep the body from stinking). He was supposed to end up in California but his widow found someone else to marry and left him in Salt Lake. There were other, more inspiring stories but that one was pretty great.
Friday we went to the Mt. Timpanogos Temple and then over to UVU for the LDSPMA awards banquet where our daughter in law Emily received one of the Spark awards for her song Kitetail. We love her songs and are so happy to see her talent recognized. Here is a link to the song if you would like to hear it: https://youtu.be/3hcWwda1DJY?si=zoPOQXT5rMK-azOK
The event was great and it was fun to get to see Emily, her mom and aunt. We also got to see a niece who has a publishing company which publishes middle grade books. It made for a fun evening!
With daughter in law Emily and niece Kiri
We got a few interviews done this week and were happy that some of the students are able to figure out how to request their interviews even when the system is mostly down for the update. We hope that word of mouth will help more students figure out how to get this done to cut down on the onslaught in November.
There is a church music festival in November where part of the conference choir will be able to sing one of our songs again so we're looking forward to that. I think it is in the Tabernacle so that will be very cool.
Since it's October, we have a few seasonal pictures to include this week:
Spooky tree roots
Ghostbusters!
From Gary: We had a wonderful Zone Devotional this week where the topic was about being of good cheer! The direction that this was delivered was a little bit unique: The scriptures never say it might be a good idea to be of good cheer. It is more of a commandment to BE OF GOOD CHEER! That is a really fun way to look at it! If we love the Lord and have faith in him, we have every reason to be of good cheer and thus we can trust that he will help us find ways to do that! Life will never be easy, and we all have big challenges to overcome, but focusing on the good news of the gospel will give us more power to overcome and move on from the challenges we have. If we seek to see our lives in a Celestial perspective, we can more easily find the path that will lead us to good cheer amidst the trials of our lives.
So I have a goal this coming week to remember to be of good cheer! Anybody want to join me in this quest?
We had an absolute blast being with Emily, our son Kendall's wife, and my niece Kiri Jorgenson, who is my sister Carol's daughter, at the LDSPMA awards event! Emily is writing some amazing music and creating fun videos, (see https://youtu.be/3hcWwda1DJY?si=zoPOQXT5rMK-azOK) while Kiri writes great kids books under the company Chicken Scratch Books (see https://chikenscratchbooks.com)
We love you all!
Elder and Sister Pack
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