19 June 2009

The garden is progressing. I'm needing to water it three times a day, but we've got a few tomatoes and a couple of peppers so far. It looks like we'll have a bumper crop of peppers about the second week in July.

It has been a year since Grandma M[...] M[...] passed away, and I prepared her temple work submission. She was always disinterested about the Church during her life, but as I was preparing it, I felt that she had indeed accepted the gospel. I remember years ago that I was strongly prompted to do her mother's temple work, that she had accepted the gospel; and I wondered if when Grandma M[...] passed away, that her mother had met her and taught her the gospel.

Yesterday, P did her endowment and felt that she was there and accepted the work. The last two times that we went, the temple was really crowded, and we decided to go while D was up at scout camp. We did two endowment sessions and a sealing session. It was a good day.

We got a year subscription to ancestry.com, and interestingly enough I have found some undone temple work in the McCay side of the family. I've been researching in Ancestry, then checking in the Church's FamilySearch website to see if the temple work has been done. My plan is to take the names with us to Utah in early July and to do the baptisms with the family there.

The California Supreme Court overwhelming agreed to follow the will of the people concerning Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution to define marriage as be one man and one woman. I was very pleased with the decision.

The missionary work is progressing in the ward. We are doing a program called “President Monson's” questions, and working with the home teachers to present this to each family in the ward. It's been a bit slow getting things rolling, but I believe that good will come of our efforts. I've been out a couple of times this last month with our missionaries, and our time together has been pleasant.

On Tuesday I went up to Camp Lawton and spent the day and night with our scout troop. The young men seem to be having a good time there. Four of them including D were building a lean-to of native materials in which to sleep which is a requirement for the Wilderness Survival merit badge. Tonight P and I are going up to the adult program, and we'll bring the young men back tomorrow morning.