Good morning to you! Temperature is good,
humidity is probably awful, sky is full of clouds, goat is milked.
Yesterday was a unique day. I was actually
looking forward to Relief Society because it was going to be taught by our
bishop and stake president. I didn’t actually read the suggested reading but I
am familiar with part of it and read part of it. I had intended to read some of
it during the Sunday School lesson. However, although Sacrament Meeting went
pretty much as usual with a couple of digressions, things really took another
path beginning at the beginning of Sunday School.
Seth. |
Harry Shadduck wanted to talk to me about how my
calling in Family History is going. It’s going well. He has to report to the
Stake how Marlain and I are doing and he likes to be able to give them fact
rather than anything else. Can’t say I blame him there. He does like to talk
but he is one of those people I like to listen to because he’s had a very full life
and he has been around for a while. I don’t want to call him old, because old
is relative. He has seen a lot of years and I’m guessing he’s in his 60’s or
early 70’s. He told me yesterday about his dad. He and his wife were Catholic
for years and years. They joined the church 11 years ago and much of their
family gave them a hard time. His mom died after what sounds to be a long
illness and his dad was ready to go two or three years later. He said that his
dad had decided to join the church and that they’d arranged for an ambulance to
be at the church ready for whatever might happen and had arranged for the
children to not be right around the font and for his grandson and himself to
lower his dad into the font. It seems that he had emphysema and was on oxygen
and in a wheelchair so these things were all necessary. However, he died the
day before the baptism was scheduled.
Paul and Seth. |
Anyway, we talked for most of Sunday School and
when we were done, it was almost over. I saw Sariah in the hall and she said
that Ellie was with Laura in the Primary room because Laura had been set apart
as a missionary and had to have a companion. So, I went and waited for
singing/sharing time to be over and then went to Laura’s class with her. That
was interesting. She was pretty good with them and they are cute. One of the
boys was visiting with his dad who appears to have some stake calling. The
other two are regulars; one is a livewire, smart and vivacious and, according
to Laura a bit spoiled (a youngest child), the other is a good kid, very solid
and well behaved. So, I missed Relief Society and was reminded how I do not
like Primary.
Strategy planning. |
At some point in time, Jeremy West told me that
he and Emily have kind of decided that they like doing reenactment stuff and
they’ve been looking at costumes and have discovered that the prices are exorbitant.
That’s true; I’ve looked at some in doing research for the story I’m working on
and some of them are outrageously priced. He said that he knows I am a busy
person and that my time is valuable but would I consider making costumes for
them. Would I!? I would love to! The last time I did any sewing for others was
years ago and I charged $10 an hour. He said they’d be willing to pay more than
that. So they’re going to look at costumes and send them my way so I can look
at them and determine how much I think I would charge. So exciting!
Cedric. Love the action on this one. |
We had Chinese sausage, pesto and pasta, and
tomato salad after church. That was all good. I was planning on sliced tomatoes
and cucumbers out of the garden but Paul wanted to make a tomato salad which is
basically tomatoes and cucumbers with celery, onion, and whatever else. He said
cheese but I can’t imagine cheese with that much tomato. Unless it was a really
hard cheese, it would have turned to slime. He also said that the reason I didn’t
want it in there was because I’ve never had a good tomato salad. That’s true.
In fact, I think I’d never had a tomato salad. I like simple food, I guess.
Joseph. I like this one because Joseph really did slide down the slide, he just jumped up running right at the moment of the picture. Awesome. |
We went to the park in the afternoon and the boys
had a lot of fun running around. Cedric and Joseph got all sweaty and Seth was
worn out. When we came home we had family prayer and read scriptures and then
Paul and the boys watched a DVD that brought up some very interesting questions
for Joseph.
I was washing the dishes and he came in the
kitchen and said, “So, when Jesus was alive, black people were bad and white
people were good.”
Whoa, I thought. This is something we need to
correct. If you believe the Bible, which I do, then the Biblical account tells
us, and this is what I told Joseph, that Adam and Eve had many children (the
bible only specifically mentions three: Cain, Able and Seth but if from them
sprang all of humanity, they would have had to have had many more than three
boys). One of them, Able, was good and did what Heavenly Father wanted of him.
Another of them, Cain, was jealous of the things that Able had and when Satan
suggested to him that he kill his brother, he did. Then, because Cain was
afraid that people would be angry for what he had done and would kill him, he
was ‘cursed’ with a dark skin. So, in a manner of speaking, the curse was also
a protection. If you believe in evolution, it makes no difference. Some people
have different colored skin. Skin color does not determine goodness or badness.
A while later, Joseph came to me and told me that
there was a family on the DVD and the dad was white and the mom and kids were
all black. I then explained that when two people of different ethnic backgounds
have children, the children are a mix of the parents. Sometimes they look more
like one, sometimes more like the other. This was a good opportunity to ask if the
children were bad. Joseph readily said, “No, they’re just kids.” So I pointed
out that even though Cain made a bad choice in killing his brother, that does
not mean that his children were bad even though they would have also had his ‘curse.’
While the boys were watching and then after they’d
gone to bed, I was saving pictures from Facebook that I lost when my hard drive
fried last year. I wanted all of the pictures that I’ve taken at Moore State
Park so that Thursday I can have a slideshow going of all the pictures I have
from there. Thirty-three I had printed and will pick up today but that is only
a small drop of what I’ve taken. There are 421 altogether. Some aren’t that
great, but that’s okay.
Up for today is a fun trip to Boston to drop
Laura off. On the way there or more likely the way home, a stop at the
Lunenburg Walmart to pick up my 33 pictures. Other than that, just the usual
stuff that needs to happen.
Have a wonderful day!
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