We just came back from an Anderegg Family reunion in Deer Valley. Thanks Grandpa Jerry for the fabulous accommodations and giving us rides on the boat. Calla tried the innertube for the first time and enjoyed it until a big bump at the end. We left our camera on the car so I don't have any good pics of that. Oops.
Dave and I watched Dan in Real Life with Grandma Cathy. We really enjoyed it. I think Juliette Binoche is hands down one of my favorite actresses. Steve Carrell was great too. I love that scene in the bowling alley when they're acting like teenagers flirting with each other. I must have felt that type of energy and excitement at some point in my adolescence because I remembered it and smiled as I was watching the film. What a neat moment to begin loving another and losing yourself.
I read a really neat article that I'm really stoked about. It's entitled "Lightning from Heaven" an d appeared in the BYU Magazine Summer 2006. Here's an excerpt:
" 'The Great Man,' said Carlyle, 'was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.'
Joseph Smith ignited something in thousands of men and women that connects them to God and to each other in powerful ways...His message resonated because it was a stirring and compelling and exciting synthesis that presented a spiritually hungry humankind with a god who was not a threat to human potential but a being who gloried in that potential and whose work was to bring it to fruition. That was why Joseph's message resonated and caught hold like a burning fire...
Like Brigham Young, they knew Joseph was human and subject to err, but they sampled his words and agreed they tasted like honey. They weighed the beauty of a God and of human origins and of a human future unlike anything before imagined. They found reason to doubt, and they found reason to believe. They chose to believe." Link: http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=1851
I recommend reading the entire article. I felt it powerfully illuminated our relationship to God and why Joseph Smith was so pivotal in his plan. It increased my testimony that the Church is truly a godsend and that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true. I choose to believe it.
New family pics. Thanks to our dear and acommodating friend Lisa Ashby, www.freewebs.com/ashbyphotography
