I have been prompted A LOT recently to please do some research on the Wicke family history and the Wicke line. I was able to go to the Mesa Temple in AZ on Saturday 05 Feb 2011 and do baptisms for 8 women and 7 men. I was a little afraid that I wouldn't be able to do the male names because frankly there are rarely enough men at the temple to do a session let alone baptisms at 8 am Saturday morning.
To begin, I got there late and a group from one of the Tucson stakes arrived and so they were trying to squeeze me in because if you go to do family names or individually, you have to go between certain hours which I was not aware of. So needless to say, I was a little scared already. However within seconds my heart was calm and I knew that these sweet family members would be completed. I get dressed, they take me right to the font to do the female names and I look up through the glass around the font and I see someone I know. Now, how did Heavenly Father know and how did Tyler Tippets know that I was going to need these names done? I prayed while getting dressed that someone would be extra so that I could have their names done at the same time so that is a testimony to me that Heavenly Father answers prayers just in the nick of HIS own time.
Tyler and his friend from his ward were able to perform those baptisms for me and be with me for mine and to help me do the confirmations as well. It was awesome. I cried while Tyler was being baptized for these males. I cried because it was because of one of them that I got started in the research of family and helping get their names together for joining them for eternity. Thank you Tyler for being there and Thank you for being humble enough to hold the power of God and do the sweet work that we've been asked to do.
This morning I prayed that I would be of service to those who need me and what happens at lunch? I log out and stay at my computer because I knew that if I could do just a little bit more research I'd find someone or something that would take my research back to Hawaii. I saved on my flash drive quite a few names and information from prior research so I just clicked on one and it opened to the obituaries for a Wicke that died in CA in 2009. As I read through it, he was returned back to HI to be buried at the Cemetery of Diamond Head on Oahu, Hawaii. Seriously? Did I just read that? Did that just say that there is a family plot of in Hawaii of Wickes and their family members dating all the way back to 1844 ( I did the research on the cemetery and that is what I found).
OK, so then I jump online to find a flight to Hawaii and they are about $800. Then all of a sudden, I do a search again and dang it, a blessing popped up, $438 R/T PHX to HNL mid August!! WTH. I can't believe it. If I can just hold that price until Friday, I'm snagging it because its Payday!!!
I know that miraculous blessings come when we least expect them and that when one is obedient to the commandments of God, he will deliver and he always does. I love my Father in Heaven and I so appreciate the Savior, he has been with me for over the past 37 years of my life and I need to remember that and grasp hold of his hands and never let go.
I'm coming Wickes, I'm coming. I'm doing the work as fast as I can. Hang in there, you'll be sealed.
Karen
Monday, February 07, 2011
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
The Road to Travel
I was at work this morning listening to Church Educational System Fireside March 2, 2003 Elder Donald L. Staheli and while I was working, yes I can do both.
As Elder Staheli was speaking he said that we choose our own road to travel and it was just a reminder that yes, even though we make our own choices we are still affected by choices that others make it is what we do with what we learn that makes us closer and more like our Savior. He had choices too and he followed what he knew to the T and followed his father. What am I doing? Am I watching TV on Sunday instead of serving others that need me? Am I doing my family history rather than doing frivolous stuff. Don't get me wrong hanging out at the bonfire is tons of fun but what do I do when I get there? Do I mingle and socialize or do I sit and expect people to know who I am? Am I meeting people and getting out there?
I'm a little skeptical right now to do that. I am NOT throwing myself under the bus anymore. I won't pay for a date unless I ask you to come. I won't drive anywhere that I don't need to drive to unless I ask.
I have a question to ask my bishop actually tomorrow night about my sealing. I figured out this last weekend that if I decide to get remarried, heaven forbid and that poor man better be educated, rich and has teenage kids with a firm testimony, that the sealing from Nathan will be broken and vice versa he and that poor girl who decides to marry him. What happens to the blessings of the sealing for either one of us even though it wasn't my decision to get the divorce. The divorce wasn't my idea and I as far as I am concerned didn't do anything wrong to make it end. I didn't even sign any papers and I didn't just get up and leave because I didn't want to support a family. So, my big question on Wednesday is to find out what happens to the sealing if one of us decides to get married and the other one doesn't.
I need to go back to work. Oh yeah, Kenji was going to come and visit me this weekend but because of 18"-22" of snow all over the east and Midwest he can't come, sooo we're not going to go from Chandler, AZ to Las Vegas, NV to St George, UT over to Cedar City and then to visit the grave sites of our grandparents who are barried in Kanab and then back down through Lake Powell and back down to Chandler. Sorry peeps!
Karen
As Elder Staheli was speaking he said that we choose our own road to travel and it was just a reminder that yes, even though we make our own choices we are still affected by choices that others make it is what we do with what we learn that makes us closer and more like our Savior. He had choices too and he followed what he knew to the T and followed his father. What am I doing? Am I watching TV on Sunday instead of serving others that need me? Am I doing my family history rather than doing frivolous stuff. Don't get me wrong hanging out at the bonfire is tons of fun but what do I do when I get there? Do I mingle and socialize or do I sit and expect people to know who I am? Am I meeting people and getting out there?
I'm a little skeptical right now to do that. I am NOT throwing myself under the bus anymore. I won't pay for a date unless I ask you to come. I won't drive anywhere that I don't need to drive to unless I ask.
I have a question to ask my bishop actually tomorrow night about my sealing. I figured out this last weekend that if I decide to get remarried, heaven forbid and that poor man better be educated, rich and has teenage kids with a firm testimony, that the sealing from Nathan will be broken and vice versa he and that poor girl who decides to marry him. What happens to the blessings of the sealing for either one of us even though it wasn't my decision to get the divorce. The divorce wasn't my idea and I as far as I am concerned didn't do anything wrong to make it end. I didn't even sign any papers and I didn't just get up and leave because I didn't want to support a family. So, my big question on Wednesday is to find out what happens to the sealing if one of us decides to get married and the other one doesn't.
I need to go back to work. Oh yeah, Kenji was going to come and visit me this weekend but because of 18"-22" of snow all over the east and Midwest he can't come, sooo we're not going to go from Chandler, AZ to Las Vegas, NV to St George, UT over to Cedar City and then to visit the grave sites of our grandparents who are barried in Kanab and then back down through Lake Powell and back down to Chandler. Sorry peeps!
Karen
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