Valentine's day

 Love is in the air,  anyway it should be.My heart goes out to those who don't feel loved by anyone.Their spouses have passed away, or they are alone, whether on a deserted island or alone among groups of people, and they feel abandoned.I have felt alone at times when there are crowds of people around me.At other times I felt loved when no one is around for miles.

       I thought of Moroni,  as he spent his last years being totally alone, in hiding for fear he would be captured by the enemy.  His words were so powerful when he said “I wish I had  lived when I could have had fellowship with the Saints.”  What would it be like to have no one to talk to, and to live in fear at all times, and feel the great responsibility to protect all the volumes of writings he had been entrusted with?

     He must have known assuredly that his Heavenly Father loved him, and all he was doing was important and it would be worth it.

    My most memorable Valentine's day didn't start out that way.  My mother asked us if we would help her do sealings in the Ogden temple.  It wasn't my idea of the best way to spend the day with my husband, but we agreed to go help. The sealings were for my mother's side of the family.  After several sealing s, the officiator stopped and said "Do you have any idea how happy these couples are today on Valentine's day to have this ordinance done?"  He said, "even though they have been on the other side several hundred years, they have not been together as husband and wife until right now."  Tears filled my eyes as I caught the vision of the importance of what we were doing that very moment and it did become a very memorable Valentine's Day I will never forget. 


    

     I think of all our military personnel away from their loved ones at this time.  I hope love will permeate through the air today, that each may know we appreciate and love them as they are trying to keep us safe.

 

A few of our precious grandchildren