Shirliesplace: EXCITING NEWS!!!!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

EXCITING NEWS!!!!

It is official, Mackenzie is engaged! She got engaged on Friday, June 20th. She is going to marry Jesse Olsen who we already know and love!! Six years ago he served in the Columbus Ohio mission and we got to know him quite well when he was here. He was here about 11 months and during that time Dave was the Ward Mission Leader. He spent time at our house for meetings and of course dinners. We are all sooooo excited for this grand event to take place. Adam and Paul are so excited to have Jesse as their brother in law. They just love him! It is so great that we already know he is an amazing man. He served an honorable mission and has lived his life as he should. We are just so dang excited to have him in the family!!! I often thought of him and was so glad that he kept in touch with our family for so long. Now we get to have him a part of our family, how blessed we are!! And, of course, he is also getting an amazing girl in the process. Mackenzie is absolutely awesome! They will be an amazing couple together. We are just so happy for them.

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For all my boys

"The girl you marry will take a terrible chance on you. She will give her all to the young man she marries. He will largely determine the remainder of her life. She will even surrender her name to his name? There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen. Let no member of this Church ever lose control of himself in such an unnecessary and vicious manner. Let him bring to his marriage words of peace and composure.

I constantly deal with those cases of members of the Church who have been married in the temple and who later divorce and then apply for a cancellation of their temple sealing. When first married, they are full of great expectations, with a wonderful spirit of happiness. But the flower of love fades in an atmosphere of criticism and carping, of mean words and uncontrolled anger. Love flies out the window as contention enters. I repeat, my brethren, if any of you young men have trouble controlling your temper, I plead with you to begin the work of making that correction now. Otherwise you will bring only tears and sorrow into the homes which you will someday establish?

The girl who marries you?will wish to be married to someone who loves her, who trusts her, who walks beside her, who is her very best friend and companion. She will wish to be married to someone who encourages her in her Church activity and in community activities which will help her to develop her talents and make a greater contribution to society. She will want to be married to someone who has a sense of service to others, who is disposed to contribute to the Church and to other good causes. She will wish to be married to someone who loves the Lord and seeks to do His will."