Find JOY in the JOURNEY!: Crystal's Baptism

Friday, March 12, 2010

Crystal's Baptism

Keith and the kids headed out for New Mexico to see Grandma and Papa Thurston and go to Silver City for the baptism of our new sister in law Crystal who recently got married to Keith's brother Brad. While they were in Hatch they watched some calfs get branded and got to pet and sit on the horses. They loved burning the weeds and making there own little piles to burn and they loved playing in the gravel pit.

Keith and Shaylee went to Silver City to Crystal's Baptism while Amberly and Rylan played with Grandma and Papa. Keith had so much fun going back to Silver City where he was born years ago and remembering so many wonderful things as a kid. The baptism was amazing and so is Crystal. We are so grateful she is a part of our family! We are so happy for Brad & Crystal as well as little Kirsten.

Brad and Crystal

Shaylee and Keith in the snow...Shaylee's second time to see snow fall from the sky. How cute!

Keith's brothers and sisters all except for one sister.

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"Parents who have surrendered the sweetest and smallest flowers from the family's garden need to remember our Heavenly Father. He has promised a special reward to those who now suffer in silence, who spend long days and longer nights through their trying times of bereavement. Our Creator has promised glory. He said, "For after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but nigh at hand." (D&C 58:4) That promised glory includes the blessing of reunion with each child who has left the family circle to help surviving members of the family to draw nearer to God. Those children still live and are a heritage to the Lord."
Russell M. Nelson

President John Taylor once said: "that the best explanation he could offer why so many little children among the Saints were called away, notwithstanding the great faith and power of the priesthood exercised to keep them here, was that they were bright and noble spirits who held important positions in the kingdom of God in the spirit world, from which they could not long be spared., They were given brief furloughs, long enough to come to earth, take upon themselves bodies of flesh and bone that they might be prepared for a resurrection to a kingdom of glory; and after a short experience in mortality were called back to resume important labors in a higher sphere."

Joseph F. Smith said:"Joseph Smith taught the doctrine that the infant child that was laid away in death would come up in the resurrection as a child; and pointing to the mother of a lifeless child, he said to her: ' You will have the joy, the pleasure, and satisfaction of nurturing this child, after its resurrection, until it reaches the full stature of its spirit.' There is restitution, there is growth, there is development, after the resurrection from death. I love this truth. It speaks volume of happiness, of joy and gratitude to my soul. Thank the Lord he has revealed these principles to us."