this the week that was

JESSIE AND CAMMI CAME DOWN TO SPEND PART OF THE WEEK WITH NANA. THEY SEEMED TO HAVE FUN EVEN WHEN WORKING THE SNOW WEDDING RECEPTION. SUZI CAME IN WITH KAYLEE LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND LEFT THE NEXT MORN WITH ALL THE GIRLS. THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND THE OQUIRRH MOUNTAIN TEMPLE DEDICATION TO ROUND OUT THE WEEK.... HOPEFULLY THEY HAD FUN HERE IN CALIFORNIA. JAKE CALLED TO SAY ITS GETTING HARDER TO STAY CONSENTRATED ON HIS WORK WITH ONLY 5-6 DAYS LEFT PRIOR TO RETURNING HOME TO ST. GEORGE. I BET RAQUEL (R2) WILL BE GLAD TO HAVE HER MAN BACK FOR THE TWO MONTHS PRIOR TO THE BIRTH OF THE TWINS.

SHAWN MCINESS SPOKE IN CHURCH TODAY AND ENCOURAGED US WRITE OUR JOURNALS SO THAT THOSE WHO FOLLOW WILL BE ABLE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT US IN OUR DAY AND AGE. SHE READ FROM DAN'S FAMILY JOURNALS FROM THE CIVIL WAR. HERE WE ARE PRESENTLY LIVING THE HISTORY THAT OUR GRAND CHILDREN WILL BE READING ABOUT IN HISTORY BOOKS.

FLASHBACK JOURNAL ENTRY (DELAYED FROM 1963)
I WAS BAPTISED INTO THE CHURCH 29 NOVEMBER 1963 AT THE SANTA MONICA STAKE CENTER. SEVEN DAYS AFTER PRESIDENT KENNEDY WAS ASSASINATED. MOST OF THE MEMBERS OF OUR LITTLE LA CIENEGA WARD WERE MORTFIED AT WHAT HAD HAPPENED. IT WAS ALSO SIX DAYS AFTER MY 13TH BIRTHDAY. ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963 AT FIVE MINUTES TO ELEVEN WHILE IN ART CLASS AT PALMS JR.HIGH SCHOOL, JUST PRIOR TO LUNCH, THE PRINCIPAL CAME OVER THE P.A. SYSTEM AND ANNOUNCED THAT PRESIDENT HAD BEEN SHOT WHILE RIDING IN A MOTORCADE IN DALLAS TEXAS. TWENTY MINUTES LATER THE P.A. CAME ON AGAIN AND ANNOUNCED THE PRESIDENT HAD DIED. I DIDNT KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THIS... I WAS NOT A KENNEDY PERSON AND HAD SUPPORTED NIXON IN THE ELECTION, HOWEVER LIKE MOST OF AMERICA, WE FOLLOWED THE KENNEDY PRESIDENCY LIKE WE WERE OBSERVING CAMALOT IN REAL LIFE. MOST OF THE GIRLS AT LUNCH WERE CRYING AND I LIKE MANY OTHERS I FELT THE LOSS. HIS STRONG LEADERSHIP HAD TAKEN US THROUGH ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT SITUATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY,(THE CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS) WHEN THIS COUNTRY CAME CLOSE TO A NUCLEAR HOLOCOST. HIS LEADERSHIP AND FACE TO FACE WITH THE COMMUNIST LEADER NIKITA KRUSCHEV CAUSED THE ENTIRE WORLD TO STEP BACK AND THINK ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF LEVEL HEADS DIDNT PREVAIL. THE CRISIS ENDED AFTER ONLY TWO WEEKS OF STRESS. NOW OUR LEADER WAS GONE AND WE WONDERED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT. PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS NOW THE PRESIDENT. AS A YOUNG JUNIOR HIGH STUDENT I WOULD READ AS MUCH AS I COULD FIND OF THE ASSISINATION AND FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED.