Sept. 23rd-We were privileged to see our grand daughter Anna perform with her flute with her marching band Saturday night. It was great fun, but really chilly!!
Instead of 5 Zone Conferences, we had two(Inverness and Gardendale) with Elder Klebingat. President Sainsbury picked him up at the airport Wednesday night, took him to dinner and to his hotel. I enjoyed sitting at his table and finding out he and his wife have three children and he served his mission in Colorado, but grew up in Germany. He was a Mission President and a Stake President in the past. He instructed President and Sister Sainsbury on the car rides to and from Tupelo's Stake Conference and had a very open and matter of fact style. President Ballard assigns President Klebingat and delegates to him the Apolstolic keys to function. He said, "The Lord does not waste time, He has high expectations and is focused. The Lord loves you and when we don't talk about things or address issues it is a selfish thing to protect ourselves. We lack courage and say, "I was afraid to hurt feelings!" This is self preservation and not livi...
As we drove away from Hoover, car packed high, Rosie shed a few tears realizing the mission was past. Just them Sister Savage called to check on us (she had been home 5 months and was in college in Logan, between classes, headed to ice skating!) What a delight to take the melancholy down a notch!! We drove through Atlanta, Georgia during rush h our toward Loganville. Matt and Marie Allred (Lane and Jan's) live there with their four kids and he was just made Bishop 2 months ago. We enjoyed Marie's wonderful cooking and games with their boys. Matt and Maire had taken an Anniversary trip to Chattanooga, TN and showed us photos of Ruby Falls and City of the Rocks. They suggested visiting City of the Rocks. Then we went to the hotel. The next morning, we toured Stone Mountain in the rain and saw some films about the Monument. President Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee and "Stonewall" Jackso...
Repentance Recipients: Alabama Birmingham Mission 27 Nov 2017 President Sainsbury Dear Sisters and Elders, A mission is a wonderful time to come to know God, to find out who He is, to feel of His love. And as we come to know God, we come to love God, to put him first in our lives and to seek His approval. One of His greatest gifts to us is the gift of repentance. The ability to repent and to be forgiven is one of God's greatest manifestations of love for us. And our willingness to repent is one of our greatest manifestations of love for God. How blessed we are to have the gift of repentance, to be able to joyfully repent every day of our shortcomings and mistakes and to be washed clean in the blood of the Lamb. However, repentance is not something to be taken lightly. To tap into the atonement and the forgiveness it brings requires a broken heart and a contrite spirit. Repentance requires that we yield our whole heart unto God. We cannot hold back when it comes to repent...
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