The Hendricksen's: February 2008

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Whoa, where has the time gone?

My heck summer is almost here again...and my last post was about it leaving!! Life has been busy! Seems like Im either driving someone to school, picking them up or in between it. Not much has happened...just the usual.

Jentry turned 10! I cant believe I have a kid that is a decade old!!! Seems like weve had her forever....but shes still supposed to be our baby!! She is reading on an 11th grade reading level. Thats higher then me. Shes doing very well in school. Im so glad I dont have to worry about her...

Then theres Brinley. She could take school or leave it. She tries to negotiate school with me. "Mom, how about I go to school today, but not tomorrow and then go the next day. Like a patt-er-ren" or "I think Ill just stay home with the dogs today" Shes gonna be my trouble. But I already knew that. She is turning SIX on Monday. Wow.

Ty turned TWO!! His new favorite phrase is "NO WAY" When you ask him how old he is he says "Ty" He hasnt quite figured that out yet. But when you say "Are you two?" He will say
"YAH!" and hold up ten fingers.

Chase is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig boy! I think hes gonna be like my dads side of the family. I took him to the doc the other day and hes 21lbs. Ty is only 25 lbs. He can walk around furniture. He is a very smiley boy and I just love my Awza!

Well Im dead tired...so Ill have to think of more to type later...just wanted to give a little update.

I belong

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland in speaking of the divinity of The Book of Mormon said: For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands. Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius. None of these frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood examination because there is no other answer than the one Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator. In this I stand with my own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.” I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies. I ask that my testimony of the Book of Mormon and all that it implies, given today under my own oath and office, be recorded by men on earth and angels in heaven. I hope I have a few years left in my “last days,” but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days.