"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."

Wednesday, January 1, 1986

August 1986

Insert: pictures
  • Kirk J Anderson in water (no caption specifying body of water / Payette Lake)
  • Scorecard (unused) of McCall Golf Course
  • Caption: Mandy Anderson on H2O skis for the first time
  • Caption: Scott Biddle makes his first water ski trip
  • Caption: Eric II skis on his feet!!
  • Caption: Courtney Biddle makes her first trip on the water skis
The foregoing pictures are memorable because they record the memory of a wonderful month in McCall.  For years Norma & I talked about how we would like to spend an entire month in this special place, but work never allowed it.
After our family reunion we utilized the entire month of Aug. ’86 before taking the last steps to prepare for our mission.

I worked with Eric II and taught him to play golf as the photo shows us on the green at the Cascade course with Cascade Lake and Cougar Mountain in the background.  The picture of me with the grandchildren is memorable because it will be a remembrance of the first time that Courtney Biddle (age 6), Scott Biddle (age 4), and Mandy Anderson (age 6) got up on the water skis.
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