Sweet Family History Story

 


This week we had the opportunity to go to the San Diego Temple with our friends who we had perviously done temple baptisms with, a mother and her adult son.  They had performed baptisms for her deceased mother and  brother. While we were in the confirmation room, one of the temple workers remarked that he could feel this sister's mother's presence.  This was reassuring to the sister, but she did wonder why she too couldn't feel her presence. She wondered if she wasn't worthy enough or have enough faith.  This week on our drive to the temple, she shared a dream that she had the previous Sunday morning.  She does all her family history work on the FamilyTree app on her iPad.  In her dream, she and her mother were standing together in her bedroom, her mother was scrolling through the temple ordinance reservations that my friend had on her iPad and she was smiling.  This was a very brief dream, but it was very vivid and gave my friend great comfort in not only knowing that her mother was pleased with the temple work she was doing but that she was faithful and worthy enough to feel her presence.  

Last week, I shared a story about helping our newly baptized members to pack their U-Hauls and get ready to move.  We had a prayer with all the missionaries to ask for help in getting the houses to close.  That prayer was answered and we helped them move into their new home this week.  Unfortunately it is not in our ward boundaries and they will be very missed. 



Another sweet story I would like to share is about a sister who is a traveling nurse.  She lives in Utah but travels to different hospitals to work.  This time she was working at the Palomar hospital for six weeks in San Marcos.  She was living in her trailer in a RV park in the far end of the ward.  After she got to California, she discovered that she had cancer.  Instead of going back home and finding new doctors and knowing that the doctors here were excellent, she made the decision to go ahead with her treatments here.  It was a long six weeks of radiation, two of which included chemo treatments.  Some of the time, she had friends and family come stay and help her.  Whenever she didn't have help, we would step in and give her rides.  Elder Prater also gave her a priesthood blessing a couple of times, the last one right before she left to go home.  Each blessing promised full healing and strength to endure this illness.  I relate this story because it was such a blessing to us to hear her testimony and faith as she went through this trial.  Always, she was very thankful for any help we gave her.  She recognized the Lord's hand in her being in the right place for having excellent doctors and she always said it could be worst.  The treatments made her sick and dehydrated at times, and she lost her hair.  She looked very weak at the end of the six weeks as she left to go home.  But she was happy and confident in the blessing she had received.  We now have a life long friend that has showed us an example on how to endure well.  (Pictured below is the cookies and Thank you card she gave us)


We had apartment inspections again this week! Usually we share a spiritual thought but this round, we decided we would ask the missionaries what they learned this week and it was wonderful!  They never hesitated and were able to share wonderful messages of what they recently learned.  What a privilege is to work along side of these young teaching missionaries.


  Elder Welch, Thompson, and Wilcox.  (Wilcox was going home to have knee surgery and will return in a month)

As always, we enjoyed our visits to members of the Double Peak Ward. 

One member lived on Lake San Marcos, a small lake with a community.  They had a wonderful view right out their window. 


Another member, a nice older man who lives alone had this in his living room......I don't know if he is late putting it away or early for Christmas this year. 


On P-day this week, we visited the Antique Gas and Steam Engine museum  tractor show right around the corner from us with Elder and Sister Fowers. The Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum is a living-history museum founded in 1969 located on 55 acres of county-owned land on the outskirts of Vista, California.  They had a tractor show and started up all the engines.  We rode around the property in a wagon pulled by a tractor.  It was all very interesting. 







Elder Prater and I finished off our week with a BBQ dinner.  And yes we did try the Dill Pickle salad and it was delicious.  It was a good week. 





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  1. Dona DunlapJune 21, 2023 at 11:14 AM

    Sounds like a great full week. We can't get that particular salad around here. Looks good.

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