Memory Jogger Monday - October 12

What foods do you like? What foods do you dislike? Did you have any food or medical allergies?

I love all pasta related foods. I could eat pasta all the time. Breakfast foods are great too and not just at breakfast time. I love fresh fruits and vegetables. I could eat a meal of just corn-on-the-cob; unfortunately my family wants something in addition to "just corn". I love seafood - lobster, shrimp, and crab. Chinese, Mexican, Japanese, Italian, and Hawaiian are some favorites!

I am sure there are foods I dislike; I just can't think of them right now. I have a hard time with foods that are too hot or too spicy or meats that are not cooked all the way.

Once when I was younger I had a strange reaction to watermelon. My lips and mouth swelled up. So for awhile I was scared of watermelon. Then one day I bravely tried it again and nothing happened. I love juicy watermelon now. So, perhaps I was allergic to that variety of watermelon?

Sometimes I am scared to try new foods. Particularly if something I already really like is also available. If I'm doing the choosing, it is hard to choose. If someone else chose something new for me and I didn't know there were other choices, I would try the new food and probably like it.

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Writing a Personal History or Keeping a Journal

The Lord Will Bless Us

Salt Lake Temple ~ © Stuart Gardner

“There are millions upon millions of spirit children of our Heavenly Father who never heard the name of Christ before dying and going into the spirit world. But now they have been taught the gospel and are awaiting the day when you and I will do the research necessary to clear the way so that we can go into the house of the Lord and perform for them the work that they themselves cannot perform. My brothers and sisters, I testify that the Lord will bless us as we accept and respond to this challenge.” 

- President Thomas S. Monson, “Hastening the Work,” Ensign, June 2014.

Memory Jogger Monday - October 5

God the Father and Jesus Christ - Photo From LDS Media Library

Was religion an important part of your family life? If so, what religion did your family practice, and what did it mean to you? Is it still an important part of your life today? If religion was not a part of your life, why wasn’t it?

Yes! Religion is the strengthening threads in my life. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS-Mormon).

My mother was baptized as a youth and gained her testimony in college. Her 3rd great-grandmother and 3rd great-grandfather both joined the Church on the same day in 1832; though they had not yet met. Some of the generations in between her and these pioneers experienced inactivity.

My father was a pioneer in his family; joining the Church at age 19. My parents chose to be married in the St. George Temple in 1969 without their parents present. Their sacrifice to start a new eternal family gave me and my siblings the blessings of being born in the new and everlasting covenant; blessings they did not have for themselves.

My religion is very much who I am today. It's threads are what make my life. The assurances of the Savior's Atonement and Plan of Salvation bring comfort and strength to me. The ordinances and covenants of the temple strengthen me and through them I am able to bless the lives of family members who have gone on before me. The ordinances of the temple are the crowning blessings that binds my heart forever to my ancestors. This is the purpose for all of my family history research; to know my ancestors and to provide earthly temple ordinances for them.

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Something Changes Inside Us

Jordan River Temple - Photo From LDS Media Library

“When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors through sacred ordinances of the temple.” 

- Elder Russell M. Nelson, “Generations Linked in Love,” General Conference, April 2010.