Last Sunday we celebrated Ben and Becca's baby girl, Isabel's first birthday. She has actually been one for a few weeks, but first the celebration was held off until my mom could attend and then postponed due to sickness. Once the party did get off the ground, it was a good time had by all. It will just be a few weeks now until we all get together again for Carrigan's birthday.
The other major highlight, since the last blog, took place just a few hours ago. Our stake (a small geographical area of members of our church) had the chance to have a special conference where Jeffry R. Holland (one of the twelve apostles we sustain to lead and direct our church) came to speak to us. This is a big deal when you consider that there are 15 million members of our church and he came to speak to 1,500 of us. He talked about how the church is a force for good. The church teachings, and the Book of Mormon in particular, do nothing but teach us to be better, more Christlike people. I talked about this a while back when we had general conference and I have thought about it a great deal since. It is interesting, to say the least, the opposition the church has faced when, when you look at the evidence, the teaching of the church and the Book and Mormon teach nothing but to be better people. Attending today was a rare and special experience and I am so grateful I had a chance to be a part of it. It seemed irreverent to take his picture during the meeting so here is his picture from off the church website.
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