The Hendricksen's: February 2009

Monday, February 23, 2009

We went on a road trip.

Its HARD to get Scott to go anywhere out of Utah County. Seriously. He could never travel one more minute in his life and be fine with that. Not I! This weekend we took a quick visit to his Grandma Murrays house that lives in Cedar. We had a great time. I hope we didnt wear her out! But Im betting we did. The first day we got there she had a roast cooking and made us a great dinner!! That is very hard for her to do and we appreciated it so much!!! Scott went to see his Uncle Chris's shop. He heard the word "shop" and heard nothing else. Meanwhile Grandma took the rest of us up to Scotts cousin Kathryns house. The kids had a great time playing. I can only imagine the mess they made in the downstairs. I didnt dare look.

Later we went to Aunt Beth's to talk and play games! We had a great time!! The boys loved playing in the play room!! We also got to hear Jesse play the piano! WOW WOW WOW is all I can say about that!! She did awesome! And I even got a few (fifty) pictures of her. Ok, not that many! Jentry ended up sleeping the night over there and had lots of fun!

I loved talking to Uncle Raymond while we were there. He is Grandmas younger brother. He can remember so many details of his life Im amazed. When he was born the doctor used the forceps wrong and he has been handicapped his whole life. I've been told he has changed through the years and used to not talk as much as he does now. He can talk your leg off now and I love it! I love listening to everything he has to say. He has had an interesting life!! He is 75 years old now and he can tell you MANY details of that 75 years. I could seriously talk to him all day long!

The next day Grandma took us on a tour of the city. Cedar is a bigger city than I thought! Wow. It was fun just to ride a long with her. Even if we had to stop every other minute for Ty to go the bathroom!

Before we left we had to have a picture session. Grandma and Raymond were so nice to pose for 100 pictures!

After that we headed home. We still had homework to get done for Monday and I didnt want the kids too tired when they went back to school. But we had a GREAT time!! Im hoping to do it again this summer...that is...if Grandma doesnt change her number.

The results....

WE finally are done with painting. ITS ABOUT TIME! Its never ending, I tell you. You start one little project and then everything else starts to look horrible and you need to re-do that, and buy another this, and fix another that. It goes on and on. But I think we are starting to get it together. The only other things I want to do is buy a sofa table for the window and decorate that. Then I have to paint my shelf that was in the kitchen and decorate that. Then Im done....maybe. Here are some recent pictures.

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.