Find JOY in the JOURNEY!: Thanksgiving...

Monday, November 28, 2011

Thanksgiving...

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Thatcher, AZ this year. The whole Bloomfield family was there except for Marleah and Danny. We even killed and plucked a turkey and the annoying rooster who has attacked each of Jana's kids and thinks that at 3:30 in the morning it's ok to crow...not ok!!! I am so thankful for many things...my children who keep me going, a nice home, food to eat, family, my parents, neighbors, the gospel, my testimony, the temple, the priesthood, the scriptures and ensign, my Savior, my husband, his good job and all the many many more blessings in life.

Keith's parents drove down on Friday to come Mesa to visit family. Marlena and her two girls Brooklyn and Kadence stayed with us. We had a fun time making cinnamon rolls, shopping at Target and watching the kids play. I am so proud of Marlena and the person she has become. She is a great mother to her two girls and loves them so much! It sure was fun having a little girl in the house again. My kids loved every minute they had holding and loving her.

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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."