"I have decided to keep a journal because I believe that my life is important not only to myself but also to others. Perhaps I can stimulate others in my family to do likewise so that the family may be strengthened through deeper communication. Only that material which keynote the central themes of my life and its experiences will be recorded. Certainly it will not always be serious because I enjoy a sense of humor and do not take myself serious enough to think that everything that happens to me is earth-shattering. In fact, I enjoy a good laugh with others when my antics and habits are in review. It would be more than I could ever hope for, if my wonderful and choice family – those now living and those yet to embrace life here upon this earth – would read my thoughts and come to understand me as I desire to understand them. Then a love would develop in all our hearts for our God; for one another; for life; and for the quest for eternal life together. And so whenever a record is being made I pray that the Spirit might be with me that it will be felt by those who read these words in the spirit of truth. Only the decisions that pertain to our relationships with our Father in Heaven and the Savior are important. All other decisions will be of little consequence."

Tuesday, August 13, 1974

August 13, 1974



Tonight we had a wonderful family home evening. There were 17 people present. Jane has just returned home from the Hill Cumorah Pageant and she and Carol sang a very beautiful song. We then, each one, told how and what we had been doing this past year. I told the family that I feel a special compelling drive by the Spirit that we should have a family business, I feel so strongly about this that I feel I can prophesy that it will come about. If we do not we may tend to splinter off as the children marry. Our family solidarity and unity will continue if we are held together. Now, I know that we can have a family business if we will combine our faith and prayers to this end.
            This was what I told the family, that if they desire this then they too should pray about it. Otherwise, it will only be known as a pipe dream of mine. I feel that Jacob’s family was a model to us and any family that desires to live the Lord’s way. There is no reason why we cannot have the same blessings if we go about things in the way that has been shown to us. I desire to do everything that will bring this about for this family.

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