I "POaST" about my life -- 1969

1968 Easter

1969 Easter

I start out the year with a visit to the local movie theater to see "Live a Little Love a Little" and "Westside Story"!  Tom is missing church to go to rodeos almost every Sunday.  Sometimes we go to watch, but after we attend our meetings.  I just want to be like Debbie Earnhardt she is a barrel racer and I love her clothes!!!  (Oh man!)  I am in Advanced Band playing the clarinet.  Urlene is "just" in music!!! (haha!)  Urlene and I created a "Fort" where we could go and be away from the world it's UNDER the addition to the trailer (Tom's room)! AGAIN OH MAN!  I really like to go to Primary and learn, make things and see my friends.  The School bus drops me off at the church and then I walk home.  Sometimes we stop at Kennys Hamburger Drive Inn and eat, play to Juke box and dance for the people there!! AGAIN OH MAN!

My 6th grade class Mr. Kemp

My friends were in both of the schools 6th grade classes (Franklin Elementary on Main Street in Mesa) so I bought both pictures!  Debbie was my friend we were tight, but she sometimes annoyed mom.  Once I wrote that Deb came over again today and just walked in without knocking and was load and happy.  Mom told her "You do it again I'm calling the police"  oh Mom, calm down - I wonder where I got that attitude of mine!!!  She hated it when Debbie was late and we had to wait for her when we took her places. One time we got into alot of trouble fighting over our barbies.  Her brother Mark got his hand stuck and almost pulled off his thumb once in our ringer style washing machine!

the other 6th grade class Mr Bryant

Judyann faints alot. One day she fainted after takinga shower I didn't know what to do. She lay there having a seizure I called for help and held her I called mom to come home and we took her right to the doctor. the doctor said she had heart problem, so we went to another doctor and he said it isn't heart its thyroid.  P.S. when she sleeps its weird cuz her eyes look like they are open!  creeps me out!  

This year Uncle Blackie Died

Aunt El and Uncle Blackie when they were married in Wyoming

Judyann, Uncle Blackie, Tom and TIm

I had worked really hard to plan a "Father / Daughter" hoedown with hay bails and western music so that my Daddy would come with me and I could show up at the church and they could all see that I really do have a Father! Jane worked with me because she wanted her dad to want to come to the church too (we had the non member fathers!).  Then it happened, Aunt El calls - "Uncle Blackie died at 5:30 in the morning having coffee at the breakfast table he just keeled over".  Now we have to go to Salt Lake City in the middle of the winter and miss my Primary activity - WOW! a little selfish kel! 

 But what is better is the story of the actual trip to SLC!  Mom flew up immediately to be with Aunt El. Daddy, Judyann and I drove up in her Oldsmobile!  I can remember the whole trip like it was yesterday.  Sis was driving, Dad in the passenger seat me in the back.  We are approaching Flagstaff and snow was everywhere!  So when we pull into Flag, stopped to get gas the guy there tells Daddy that there is snow all the way to Salt Lake so we need chains!  Thus we leave the car to have the chains put on and we go across the street to eat breakfast!  We then head out.  When you pull out of Flag going north you can see forever ... what we saw was NO SNOW!  Judyann had her hair in curlers as big as frozen orange juice cans (in fact they might have been OJ cans!) Dad started swearing up a storm.  He made her pull over and made her take off the chains (really dad?? why don't you just cuss and pace and smoke while sis take the chains off) so she gets them off now all muddy and her hair a wreck!!! Then before she could pick them up off the ground and put them in the trunk dad threw them in the car on the floor board of the front seat.  Every time he would move his boots they would make a noise and remind him and he would go off again.  It makes me laugh now, just thinking about it, but I remember just curling up on the floor in the back seat and crying myself to sleep. 
I see in Moms journal that she wrote "it pleased me so much to have Tim make such an effort to leave the stables and make the trip to Blackies funeral with Judyann and Kelly Sue.  He is kind and considerate of me!"   WOW!

Mom and Dad went on a little Vaca (that didn't happen often) and it seems I must have not liked it at all.  She wrote me this letter;

My dear little miracle daughter, as we go on our vacation this morning you feel "left out" but you really aren't! No matter where we go or what we do and see we will think of you and many times we will say - "Kel would like that" or "Obe would get a kick out of this." In other words sweetie we love you whether we are with you or not.

Honey I have a feeling you didn't quite tell me true about your diary, so why not go back the days that you haven't written and write.  It's important to write in your diary.Someday you'll want to remember when Urlene left or when you started helping Mrs. S. or BYU Week or talking to Charles!

Remember to say your prayers! The most important thing in this life is keeping close to your Heavenly Father.  Be true to Him and to yourself and we will always be proud of you and of our faith and trust in you.  Though you may wonder about or even question what Daddy or I do or say, please, sweetheart, NEVER NEVER question our very deep love for you.

Be your kind sweet self and help those you can.

lovingly Mother.

Better Youth Require Better Teachers -Scott

Yeah!!!! a new month!!! Month 2 February!!!! over 30 years.... In looking over my "paper" Feb 1st, this is what I find...
"Here and there, and now and then, God makes a giant among men.  President Hinckley such a GIANT - a giant of knowledge, of faith, of testimony, of compassion of vision".    -President Monson 2008

Tips for teaching Seminary (and I like to think teaching the kids at home);

1. teach students not lesson
2. let the spirit do the teaching
3. teach by the spirit, the teacher must live worthy of the spirit
4. Scriptures invite the spirit into the hearts of the students
5. Teach Pure Doctrine
6. Live to learn, learn to love and you'll love to live.
7. Stay on Course
8. Don't let  Satan undermine your worth.

In correlation with these thoughts. Since writing this blog summing up January I see a couple of things have happened that I'd like to record. 

• the missionaries from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints came for dinner and challenged me to pray for 30 min. and then listen for answers.   I did it. It is awesome. God hears and answers prayers.  I didn't think I could even pray that long but I did, I prayed longer.
• I started to teach the 6 year olds in Primary.  I was so scared.  Really me scared to teach?!?!?  I was. I still am, but I have been praying about it naming the kids individually and waiting and listening - it's been such a great experience.  They don't sit still, the seem hyperactive!  But then I don't have 6 year olds at home everyday anymore!!!  The last lesson I taught said to share a video with the class.  I found the video I watched it - it's a story of how the church was restored.  It is a religious story, not a cartoon, religious hymns in the background not catchy tunes.  I 'm thinking these kids are not going to sit still for this.  In short I was prepared, I took the DVD to show, I said We are going to watch this thinking if they don't sit still and if they get bored i will just turn it off and we will do something else.  I think my faith was lacking!!  These little kids knelt down and gathered and reverently were entranced in this story.  They made comments about the music that it was their favorite that they loved this kind of music and that they were so proud of Joseph Smith trying to tell people even though they laughed at him and were mean to him.  They were reverent. The spirit was strong and testified to us all that the world doesn't teach (it influences) but it doesn't teach.
• Reading my paper, recognizing history and admitting it has changed and helped me. I can see changes in me already.  Both reminding myself that I learned something and maybe had fallin' away from it. Or admitting that for years I have had the same goals so now is the time to move on it. Makes me grateful I kept a record and more happy and grateful to have a wonderful husband and the most greatest kids in the whole wide world.
• the missionaries also challenged us to set up a profile on mormon.org to better chat with the world and share my testimony and I also did that.
• But Jan has been a great month for family history.  I am doing a little bit everyday and working hard to find real people and sure up real family ties on ancestry.com.  I am using this season for all things Family search! having only a handful of family member left in this world really makes Malachi's word real in my life I do have a heart that turns to my father in looking for family connections.

this is my life. this is what I do and this is my quest, to leave a family heritage for those I love for eternity.