Robert writes home #85 9 Feb 1997(Includes Sam's talk)
9 Feb 1997
Dear Mother,
We're about back to normal after Megan's wedding. We had a fun visit with Susie and Laurie for two days after. They didn't go back until Tuesday.
Megan had two friends from Ricks College come and stay with us and go to the wedding. One of them was from Oregon City, Oregon. Her name was Sandra (Sam)...I can't remember the last name. The other was from Pennsylvania. Her name was Audrey Chiopelli. She was on her way to the MTC and a mission to temple square in SLC.
After Pete got back to BYU, he called and told us to get ready for another wedding. They plan to get married in Salt Lake Temple on April 4, 1997. So now we have that to look forward to. He's marrying Jessica Nelson. Her parents live in Las Vegas now, but she grew up around Ogden or somewhere in the Salt Lake valley.
Charlie missed the open house for Meg's wedding in Turlock, because he was playing a basketball game against Washington Union. They got beat by about 50 points. Then they got beat (barely) by Chowchilla last Wednesday.
That loss puts Dos Palos in third place in the league, so, I guess there's not much hope for basketball. Charlie has surely had fun though. He is a good player, I think. (I guess you have to allow for the parental bias.)
Sam gave a talk in Sacrament meeting today. I helped him with hit. I'm sending you a copy of it.
I hope everything is going well. We're praying for you.
Love,
Robert, Janet, Charlie and Sam
Sam's talk:
The priesthood is the Authority to act in God's name.
The code word here is act.
When a boy applies for a job at K-Mart he gets interviewed and screened for certain qualifications. If he qualifies and is hired he then has the authority to act in K-Mart's name.
He wears a K-Mart uniform and does the things that the manager assigns to him.
If you see him out in the parking lot gathering up shopping carts, you understand that he is authorized to do that.
When he qualifies for greater responsibility, he may be a clerk at the cash register, where he acts as an authorized representative of K-Mart.
Now, if I walk in a start clerking at the cash register, I would probably be arrested, because I'm not authorized to act in K-Mart's name.
The Aaronic priesthood is kind of like that.
If we qualify for the job, we are ordained to be God's employees and he authorizes us to do his work.
The jobs that he has the Aaronic Priesthood do are basically the same jobs that Aaron, the brother of Moses, and the Levites did for the children of Israel.
At that time, they officiated at the sacrifices.
They wore special robes (uniforms, if you will) to do this.
These sacrifices were done away with and replaced by the sacrament at the resurrection of Christ.
So we officiate with the sacrament ordinance. We wear special clothing...white shirts and ties...
The Deacons pass, the Teachers prepare the sacrament and do home teaching and the Priests do all of that plus bless the sacrament and baptize.
I'm proud to be ordained and authorized to act in God's name in doing his work
Dear Mother,
We're about back to normal after Megan's wedding. We had a fun visit with Susie and Laurie for two days after. They didn't go back until Tuesday.
Megan had two friends from Ricks College come and stay with us and go to the wedding. One of them was from Oregon City, Oregon. Her name was Sandra (Sam)...I can't remember the last name. The other was from Pennsylvania. Her name was Audrey Chiopelli. She was on her way to the MTC and a mission to temple square in SLC.
After Pete got back to BYU, he called and told us to get ready for another wedding. They plan to get married in Salt Lake Temple on April 4, 1997. So now we have that to look forward to. He's marrying Jessica Nelson. Her parents live in Las Vegas now, but she grew up around Ogden or somewhere in the Salt Lake valley.
Charlie missed the open house for Meg's wedding in Turlock, because he was playing a basketball game against Washington Union. They got beat by about 50 points. Then they got beat (barely) by Chowchilla last Wednesday.
That loss puts Dos Palos in third place in the league, so, I guess there's not much hope for basketball. Charlie has surely had fun though. He is a good player, I think. (I guess you have to allow for the parental bias.)
Sam gave a talk in Sacrament meeting today. I helped him with hit. I'm sending you a copy of it.
I hope everything is going well. We're praying for you.
Love,
Robert, Janet, Charlie and Sam
Sam's talk:
The priesthood is the Authority to act in God's name.
The code word here is act.
When a boy applies for a job at K-Mart he gets interviewed and screened for certain qualifications. If he qualifies and is hired he then has the authority to act in K-Mart's name.
He wears a K-Mart uniform and does the things that the manager assigns to him.
If you see him out in the parking lot gathering up shopping carts, you understand that he is authorized to do that.
When he qualifies for greater responsibility, he may be a clerk at the cash register, where he acts as an authorized representative of K-Mart.
Now, if I walk in a start clerking at the cash register, I would probably be arrested, because I'm not authorized to act in K-Mart's name.
The Aaronic priesthood is kind of like that.
If we qualify for the job, we are ordained to be God's employees and he authorizes us to do his work.
The jobs that he has the Aaronic Priesthood do are basically the same jobs that Aaron, the brother of Moses, and the Levites did for the children of Israel.
At that time, they officiated at the sacrifices.
They wore special robes (uniforms, if you will) to do this.
These sacrifices were done away with and replaced by the sacrament at the resurrection of Christ.
So we officiate with the sacrament ordinance. We wear special clothing...white shirts and ties...
The Deacons pass, the Teachers prepare the sacrament and do home teaching and the Priests do all of that plus bless the sacrament and baptize.
I'm proud to be ordained and authorized to act in God's name in doing his work
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