Grandmas Testimony

OK-so my grandma, whom is my Dads Mom, has asked me before to type up some family history stuff for her and about a month ago she gave my dad a envelope with some stuff in it for me to type. Of course she is coming this weekend and I have procrastinated until right before she comes to type it up for her. Little did I know it was her funeral arrangements. I wasn't prepared, but honored to type the things I did for her-the obituary draft, life sketch, funeral arrangements, misc items, and her personal testimony. I guess to be able to live until you are old enough to experience life and be able to write and plan your own funeral is quite an honor. I don't think most are able to plan their own funeral, but then it got me thinking about my own funeral and that some people my age do actually have to think about this sort of thing. I have not been hit with the trial of bad health or an illness or something terminal that would make me want to plan my funeral arrangements, but really we need to be living our lives each day as if it were the last because we never really do know when it will be our last. If we are lucky we can live to be in our eighty's or ninety's and have a good long healthy life. I have been lucky to have a good relationship with my grandma because my Dad will go and pick up my Grandma for a weekend or so and we go over to spend time with her while she is in town. I have taken advangates of some of the times to take her home so I can have that one on one time with my grandma to visit because when we do get together the kids can get pretty wild and loud, so it is harder to visit one on one. We have stopped on our way too or from Bear Lake to see her and of course pick up a pizza at Fredrico's pizza too, all of our favorites huh Grandma & Dad! I love you grandma!! And it was so touching to me that she wants her testimony read at her funeral with her obituary.

I just hope that my life I can reflect a way that others may see the light of Christ through me. I am by no means perfect, but I know that because of what our Older Brother Jesus Christ did for us all we have to do is do our best every day, or those tough words endure to the end. I don't want to think of the end of my life, but it has helped me to realize I do need to do better because I have along way to go, so I better shape up. The gospel is true!! If you are just snooping on my blog and arn't a member of the church check the following link, it can only do you good. http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/

I plan on taking an updated picture of my kids and Grandma Great this weekend since the below one is a year old, I can't believe I went that long. Below is also a picture of my Grandma and her second husband when they got married in 1983. Grandpa Miner he was quite that guy, he let us work in his garage with his wood and tools, we always came home with a project we had been working on, I wasn't too creative, for me it was usually just a pencil holder or something like that. I am thankful for parents, and grandparents, family, and friends that are good examples to me that help me to be better and want to be a better person. I think we all get in a rut and have to dig ourselves out at times, and other times we need the help of others to get us through the storms in our life. And most of the time it is nothing serious, just need to get back to the basic normal things in life in our daily routine of reading the scriptures and prayer including family prayer, FHE, and remember the things that are really important in life that we so easily get out of. But as long as we keep getting up and trying again we are trying so that is all we can do. Like my mom used to always say when we would try to get out of going to school, she knew we were faking it, "Get up, Get to work, and you'll feel better!"

Gospels True and Life is Good!!