What Good Have I Done?

Apostle Tom Perry said in October 2009 conference "Lessons of the past prepare us to face the challenges of the future." As we raise our children and chart our own courses we need to learn from past mistakes, choose models to follow, build on traditions, and set high expectations. An important person in the raising of my children was their grandfather who moved to Edmonton after my mother died – Melanie was sick during her pregnancy with Annelise and their grandfather came to take care of the other children. In his retirement he wrote family history "Them of the Last Wagon" and "Faithful Generation" and researched and found thousands of family names for genealogy. He also raised horses. Elder Packer said, "I have horses not because I raise horses.  I have horses because I'm raising children." Every summer my children spent riding horses with their grandfather. Their grandfather learned horsemanship from his father.  His father...

All the prophets have prophesied of the coming of the Messiah. In Mosiah 13: 33 Abinadi stated: "For behold, did not Moses prophesy unto them concerning the coming of the Messiah, and that God should redeem his people? Yea, and even all the prophets who have prophesied ever since the world began—have they not spoken more or less concerning these things?"