THE TOUGH PART IS LETTING GO...
Whether we are asking our elders questions, learning from them about mistakes and good choices they made in their lifetime, learning what they might have done if they had another chance, or realizing that Grandma was pretty wise after all and actually had the wisdom to impart during all those stories she had to sit through comments like, "Grandma, you've told that story before, like a bajillion times!" Did you ever think that as she keeps repeating it, it is her hope that she will impart some of that wisdom to you so that you don't make the same mistake and live to regret it?
Taking the final road trip to say goodbye…The hardest trip I ever made was this month. I know she will be with Daddy soon. I don't like to see her in pain, and now we find she has cancer of the lungs....98 and still with us. Whether we are asking our elders questions, learning from them about mistakes and good choices they made in their lifetime, learning what they might have done if they had another chance, or realizing that Grandma was pretty wise after all and actually had the wisdom to impart during all those stories she had to sit through comments like, "Grandma, you've told that story before, like a bajillion times!" Did you ever think that as she keeps repeating it, it is her hope that she will impart some of that wisdom to you so that you don't make the same mistake and live to regret it? SATURDAY NIGHT 2/11 Well, just want to thank everyone for their input tonight. I loved hearing all about your families and their traditions. I was grateful to hear you say that you wished you had some of these questions, Jan and Br and Sr Judd. Warren, I want to hear more about the last Lord Kilpatrick. David. We were both impressed that you started asking questions and had documented so much. It was a real eye-opener to those who have younger children now. When I was growing up, my father would come home from his job as a manager of a Safeway meat plant in Vernon, CA pretty tired. There was a nap before dinner then of course, one after. Then it was time for me to go to bed. So there was precious little time for me to get to know his life other than dinner chat. Right before he died he opened up about what had happened during the war. The first item finally cleared up why we couldn’t sit in front of the plane. He felt it was safer. Now he tells me. I got my 7-year-old self up and as usual, “overdressed”…. dressed in my nice blue dress with white gloves, a white fur headband hat, and a fur muff. In those days everyone dressed up to ride a plane. There’s no place in Los Angeles that requires any fashion statement like wearing a dress or suit now to get on a jet. But I had a plan. I wanted to watch the pilot and even though there was no door, you couldn’t do that from the back. Dad felt better with us farther back. The stewardess saw my tear-stained face and brought me to the pilot. I got to sit on his lap and he pulled a set of wings out of his pocket and pinned them on me. Now…..what was Dad’s reason? At FT Benning GA, the soldiers have to train alongside water moccasins, gators, and swamps. His paratrooper unit was ready to make their first jump. The pilot was also training and something went wrong and the plane plummeted downward. Somehow he got an angle where they slapped the ground awfully hard. My dad and his buddy were in the tail section. The last two seats. They watched, horrified as the plane cracked at the tail and separated them from the rest of the platoon and the momentum kept it going as it burst into a ball of flames and careened right down into the swamp. The swamp greedily drank the entire plane. Vanished! No one had a chance to get into some clean clothes or even take off their chute on the hook line. That day he saw all his buddies perish but God spared him and also the guy next to him who only broke his leg. Why? He would spend the rest of his life trying to do good for people who were underprivileged to show his gratitude. So by asking him that question even tho, it was 2006, not 1946, how do you think he felt? Like someone cared? If I had known better or had more time with him I’ll bet he would have sat me down and had a longer chat.
HERE ARE THE HANDOUTS FROM LAST NIGHT
| |  | While they are still here…if you’ve got achance, take it!
|  | | Zoom handouts at the touch of a button after 2/11/23 - right here |
| If you got a chance, take it, take it while you got a chance
If you got a dream, chase it, 'cause a dream won't chase you back
If you're gonna love somebody
Hold 'em as long and as strong and as close as you can
'Til you can't So take that phone call from your momma and just talk away
'Cause you'll never know how bad you wanna 'til you can't someday
Don't wait on tomorrow 'cause tomorrow may not show
Say your “sorries”, your “I-love-yous”, 'cause man you never know (excerpt from Cody Johnson’s song about loving your family while you have the chance…while they are on earth.)
|  | | Seize the moment… | This month we focus on getting that last interview either by zoom, face time, or in person. We need to take advantage of every meeting we have to ask for details of family stories, find data to corroborate the family story, and document the legacy of our elders. We will give you some ideas about what you should take to maximize your visit. Those answers to things you’ve always wanted to know will always be a mystery unless you seize the moment.
| Scriptures about Honoring Parents… | | Family, Love within that ye also love one another, John 13:34. Husbands, love your wives, Eph. 5:25 (Jacob 3:7; D&C 42:22). teach the young women … to love their husbands, Titus 2:4. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, 1 Jn. 2:10. love one another, as he gave us commandment, 1 Jn. 3:23. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, 1 Jn. 4:20. we love the children of God, when we love God, 1 Jn. 5:2.
See that ye love one another, D&C 88:123. No power or influence … only … by love unfeigned, D&C 121:41.
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