Temple Birthday! 125 Years Old

Wayne:Well I kinda forget what has happened over this long period of time... I hope I do not repeat what I have already said. I went to Lagoon (A theme park just a bit farther south from Logan) for my Schools "Physics Day". My friend Dylan won an award for calculating the G-force of a ride with his home-made accelerometer. He got first place! I won a free day pass there because I filled out a long worksheet that covered physics topics about the rides there. I barely rode any rides as I was doing this worksheet all day. I think it was worth it because I won a free pass to go there again! Anyway this week has been going well... I went rock climbing with my friends up Logan Canyon! My friend dropped me about 4 feet and caught me with the rope. after that I smacked against the cliff face and got a slight scrape. I was really scared. This week was the Logan Temples Birthday so we learned some interesting facts about the temple. In church all the young men are preparing a song to sing in sacrament meeting next week. I am experiencing a small cold so I hope it is gone by the time we have to sing. Shad was singing really well today in the practice! He is doing great at fulfilling his priesthood duties. I might start guitar soon. I am also trying to convince my mom to get us playing the piano again.(since we moved we stopped lessons and stopped playing very much) I still play once in a while in seminary, but that is only when the person who is really good at piano is late or gone. I only have 3 and a half days of school left! I can't wait! I will miss some of my friends though. Anyway I am writing too much so see you later! Kveena: hay! how are you guys? today it was rainy. when we were going up the road it didn't look like my dad could really see where he was going. we went to a movie yesterday it was the second one of the series it was pretty good but i don't know which one i liked best.shad will talk about it to. i went to the scout camp i'm working at in the summer it looks like it's going to be great fun. i've always wondered what it would be like to be a scout cause they seemed to always be doing something funner than me and the activity days girls were doing but it was probely because wayne is so good at making things sound funner then they were so i'd be jelouse he still does that sometimes well by talk back i'd love to here from you guys!

Shad:Hi! Haven't righten in a while... So here it goes... Thursday of last week me, Adam, Andrew and dad went to Yellowstone, Wayne couldn't come because he had a three-hundred point lab... It was a theme park!!! He was so lucky, but we saw Ryan and Tonya's family,so we had way more fun. On Saturday we went with them on a hike in the mountains. But there was snow and we were walking by a rock on snow and Adam fell in a eight feet deep hole he was really scared other than that we had a fun Saturday... And we saw three wolf take an elk out, it was cool. On Sunday we went to church and after Sunday school I felt sick, so I told dad he gave me the keys to the car and I went into the car. Then I felt sick I was going to throw-up. So I ran to the grass out side and I threw up! We figured out that I got sick by bad sandwich meat at lunch Saturday... Then yesterday we went to Night Of The Museum it was a great movie so that's all bye!!

Mel: The boys and I had a fun trip to Yellowstone. We committed to meet the canadian photo club on this third weekend before we realized it was the 15th (wedding anniversary) so Raeghn was good to take a rain check for a big get away. We got to meet Ryan and Tonya and their kids and had a nice but short visit. We got to swim Friday night and then we went rock climbing with them in the morning. We almost lost Adam. He fell through the snow into a cavern about 8 feet deep. We grabbed him in time and luckily no snow fell on top of him. We were a little more careful after that! He was a good sport about it all. Everyone else enjoyed the adventure. Unlike our usual visits, we only saw a few bears and they were a long ways away but we saw lots of wolves really close. As you see from the picture it was the most incredible display of nature that I've seen and will probably ever see. Wow. I'm going to try and write it up with more pictures. After the wolves experience we headed home. We thought we'd go by the church to see when it started the next morning. There was no sign, but there was another guy who just drove into the parking lot too. So we asked him (young guy about 20) and he said he was looking to find out the same thing. We saw lights in the video rental store in town (knowing the branch president owned it) so we headed back to ask there. We got the branch president's niece to open the door and she told us 10. So we hauled back to find this guy. He took the wrong way back (to town instead of up the hill) but then turned around to head back to his camp location (or else we'd never have caught him) . We sped right past the "radar speed control" sign and overtook him, forcing him off the road and told him the start time.

Getting to church early we didn't see him and a friend until about 10 after. The meeting was nice and typical for a tiny branch. Afterwards I went and introduced myself to these two young men. Turns out they were on a short trip from the east for a summer vacation. Mike had just graduated from a Christian college to join the ministry in counseling and had a job in his old home town of 800 people and Nathan had two years left in the same school and was majoring in urban youth counseling. He had his bible and pulled it out for class. Well we didn't hear much of class because we started discussing our beliefs and it was exhilarating. I bore testimony and tried to clarify most of his typical anti-mormon education. He was getting really frustrated to the point of shaking, but there was no contention. He got so agitated that his friend started to pat/rub his back to comfort him. I was definitely curious what was going on in his mind. I was bearing witness of the atonement and how it lifted the burdens of suffering and he finally couldn’t take it any longer and said "Don’t take this wrong, but yes, I believe all those things regarding the Spirit and the Savior, but you can't have those things in your life because you don't know the Savior, you don't have the truth, God can’t answer your prayers because you aren’t praying to him. Just like He doesn’t answer the Buddhists prayers." I continued to witness that the Holy Ghost bears witness of truth and that they could know if Joseph Smith was lifted and guided by the Lord or if it was Satan as they had been taught. That they could kneel and know for themselves tonight, that the Lord has one church and that He does talk through prophets just as he has throughout time. It was great to learn things from His perspective too. How his college has taught him to mis-understand certain scriptures in the bible which are foundational to our beliefs. Boy was it exhilarating. The Lord was putting words in my mouth and answering some of their questions in ways I had never before thought of. One example was when he quoted Joseph Smith's "As God once was..." I responded that Jesus told us to become like Him and that through Him we can. He was silent. I would usually go on and on about some explaination but the Lord likes simplicity. Blew me away.

It was a surprising answer to my prayers in request for help in being led to the open hearted. I was thinking of the Petersboro people but heh, I’ll take anyone interested. Well, we talked through Sunday School and Priesthood meeting and kept going after that until Adam came into the chapel and said that Shad had just thrown up outside and wanted some assistance. So I left the young men my email address and off I ran. I could have talked late into the night with them, but apparently the Lord figured it was sufficient. So, I pray they will email me and that the Spirit will work upon their hearts.

The picture of the family with cupcakes is us celebrating the Logan Temple's 125 Year Birthday. You'll have to enlarge the rock pictures to see the kids. The pictures in the car are from the night we slept in the old Lland Cruiser (250,000 miles on it) in Yellowstone park. The bird is an Osprey. The lake/mountains are Jackson Lake in front of the Tetons.

Raeghn: Hi, this week has been good. I missed the boys when they went to Yellowstone. Especially Mel on our wedding anniversary. We've been married 17 years! Wow, time flies. He's a patient man to put up with me that long. He's going to be greatly rewarded in Heaven, I'm sure of it. Before they left town, we had our ultra sound. Kveena went with us, and after said, I think it's a boy, it's facial features look like a boy. We still didn't find out, and for some reason, this is the hardest one to not find out on. I'd really like to know if Kveena's getting a sister. But, we'll see in September. While Mel was gone, I taught his Gospel Principles class. It was on the restoration. I've always had a testimony of it, but as I prepared, my testimony of it increased so much more, it was a good experience for me. The next day I went to SLC and went to the Legacy theater and watched the church's film on the Legacy theater, which was great! Pregnancy is going pretty good. I've been feeling yucky each morning after I eat (about an hour) so I asked to have the glucose labs done, and sure enough, my levels were 60 over where they should be for a maximum. So, I've met with a dietition and am now on a stirct diet of 180 max of carbs per day, but in the morning, I can't seem to have any, even one peice of toast knocks me out (not really, but close - very weak, and yucky feeling)! It's the empty stomach I guess. The kids are all looking forward to summer.