Little Blessings

Little Blessings

February 11, 2018 (Our Noah's birthday!)

     We have been on Earlies this week and I have had to be in extra early as I was coordinating Initiatory. As I have aged, Sleep can be an elusive Thing. If I know I am expected somewhere at an early hour, I will sleep with one eye open. Or so it seems, When morning time finally arrived and I dragged out of bed, I had to ask Heavenly Father for extra blessings. I was so tired. I felt I needed assurance that what I was doing was worthwhile. Are there really angels up there cheering me on? I asked for those angels daily for our family. Now, I needed one.
      I got my day moving along and sisters were coming and going. Sister Basten is a periodic worker with a strong English accent. She has become my friend. There was no one in the area when she was leaving. She started out the door and then came back in. She said, "Can I give you a hug?" I opened my arms and this little lady took me in for a long, tender hug. I felt a deep impression that this was from my mom. It caught me so off guard.
     Later, in the morning, the area had quieted down with just three sisters working with one patron who had come in to do some work. I could hear the murmurings. I walked closer and stood outside to listen. I heard one American accent and two English accents pronouncing blessings. I felt a deep impression again that this little quiet time was a gift so I could be reminded of the work that is going on in this beautiful temple. Again, I was caught off guard. That same day, my friend, Lynn Baker, popped in to my area with a big basket of chocolate just to say Hello and that she was back for the week. How she hauled it in, I'll never know. Who does that? Another little blessing.
    The next morning, Sister Baker came back by. She asked again where I was from. After I told her AZ, she replied, "Oh, I had a companion from Show Low, AZ many years ago in my mission".  After I blubbered around a bit she told me her name was Lafawn Smith, now Lafawn Wilcock, and she had visited her in Show Low in the 80's. The rest of the next two days, when I ran into Sister Baker, she wanted to tell me another story about this sweet, naïve sister from AZ and all the fun they had. I just have to giggle when I think about the two of them together. In my mind, Lafawn Wilcock is truly the example of All Good All The Time. Isn't this a fun story?

Feeling Blessed this week,
Sister Seaman.....aka Mom and Grams

PROPER ENGLISH:
*telephonist - guess what these girls do for a job.....answer the phone
*concessions - people over 60 get in on consessions in museums. Not sure why. Thinking they    should   add a bag of popcorn or something along those lines.


Imperial Air Museum

     We went out to the Imperial War Museum today.  It is several miles north of London in Duxford and is a WWII airfield. It's hangers house some of the finest restored aircraft in the world. There were restored airplanes of all sorts and shapes and age; and not only war planes.  There was one of the Concord Commercial Jets in one of the hangers.  It was huge and could haul many passengers.  The record time painted on the side of the aircraft was 2 hours and 53 minutes from East coast of America to West coast of England.  Awesome.
     There was an SR-71 Blackbird.  The spy plane for the US.  It was huge also and appeared to be a huge fuel tank with wings and a pilot and it was black.
     There was a B-52 strato bomber, P-51 Mustang fighters. Corsairs, Spitfires, F-15 Eagle, Phantoms and hundreds of others.  Many of which are still air worthy. 
     The US had a huge presence here during WWII.  There was an entire hanger dedicated to the American planes.  I was so proud of us.
     From 1942 to 2018 is 76 years.  During that 76 years, the technology, materials and construction processes have given us dramatic improvements in air warfare.  It was incredible to see how far we have come.
     If was a dictator in some country of the world, I would be very afraid to offend the US.  We can be very intimidating and deadly.
    So, as of today, I am so thankful for being able to live in the USA and know that God will protect us and watch over us as long as we live like we should.
     To my children,  all you need to do is travel around in the world a little bit and you can see that the USA has so many advantages over the rest of the world.  It has truly been blessed.  I know there are some who don't think we are doing that great anymore and in some areas I would agree.  You need to do everything in your power to preserve our way of life or we will lose it.  And it won't be from an outside source, it will be from within.
     God bless America.

Sincerely,
Elder Seaman