Happy Resurrection Sunday!

 

Our district- Sister Thomas, Perez, Wright, Elder Stevens, Carlson, Ady, Prater and Jessop 

It has been awhile since I have gotten a picture of our district, it seems like the transfers which are every six weeks go by so fast and than we have new missionaries to get to know.  

Senior missionaries have the flexibility to be able to leave their mission for family reasons.  We had the privilege of going to Utah for our nephew's wedding.   He and his new wife were sealed in the Jordan River Temple which is where Elder Prater and I were sealed.  We are so blessed to witness this sacred ordinance and spend time with family.  

The bride and groom 

My brother Gordon and his wife, Allison, my sister Gail, Elder Prater and myself and my brother, Dard

Allison, Gordon, Dard, Gail, myself, Joe, my brother Brian and his wife Pam

On the way home from the wedding, we stayed in St. George to spend Easter with my sister, Joyce. 

Myself and Joyce 


Enjoy this message from our First Presidency-

This Easter season, we invite you to ponder the Savior’s atoning sacrifice and glorious Resurrection, which bless all of us.

Through our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, we receive this message of hope: “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). The Savior promises that as we keep His commandments and ordinances, we will have “peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come” (Doctrine and Covenants 59:23).

We testify that Jesus Christ lives! “He is risen” (Matthew 28:6). Because of Him, we can be guided and strengthened as we bear the burdens we face in mortality. Through our faith in the Savior’s atoning sacrifice, the bonds of sin cannot hold us and the trials that we experience in life will have no lasting power over us. “The sting of death is swallowed up in Christ” (Mosiah 16:8).



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