The Hendricksen's: July 2009

Thursday, July 09, 2009

We have a GARDEN!!!

When we first planted our garden I didnt really think it would turn out. I thought we MIGHT get a few things from it...but I didnt expect it to really GROW!! Im so excited! We are about to pick our FIRST cucumber! We have two that are really close. We have lots of squash coming a long and lots of zuccini, raddishes and peppers!!! Next year Ill know not to get so many plants of the same thing and that we will need more room!

cucumbers...

Raddishs....

Tomatos.....

Zucchini....

Peppers.....

I've published my first book....

Ok not really, but kinda. I finally published my blog into a REAL book!! I'm so excited about this. My friend Tiffany had said something about how she had done this and I had been wanting to do it for awhile but didn't know how it would turn out or really even how to do it. So when she said where she got hers done (blurb.com) and that it turned out good I was on it!! I spent all day and ALL night (til 4 am) editing and going through my blog. It was so fun to go through all of my old posts and read about the boys' births again. I'm glad to have this in print...because though this blog is for family and friends to see what we are up to...its mostly a journal for me to keep of our family.

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.