Aggie Night Is Back!

Hooray!

Our dear friends, Mary and Bob Brady and Anne and Jay Taylor,

are back from their LDS missions 

and USU Aggie Night has resumed!

Our friendships with each other go back to college days.

We met for a pizza dinner at the Brady's.

Jay is taking the pic.

I have been waiting for an excuse to try this cinnamon roll cake . . .

. . . so I baked it and brought it to Aggie Night.

Anne brought a delicious Ann Romney salad 

from her new cookbook.

And Anne was the grand champion of Five Crowns,

which we played with vigor after dinner!

In Five Crowns, you play 13 hands, 

and I was ahead all of the way through round 12,

then, one bad hand, and I came in third!

Curses!

Not really, Anne makes a beautiful champion!

I think she came back from the mission field 
even more gorgeous! 

Anne holding up her prize 

Sunday, Roger and I spoke in Sacrament Meeting.

Our assigned topic was, 

"How to Obtain Revelation and Inspiration 

for Your Personal Life." 

We each shared personal experiences of

when we have felt the Spirit of the Holy Ghost

when it has helped direct our lives, such as when

we decided to marry each other, 

when confirmation was received 

of the truth of the Book of Mormon, 

and when Roger had the opportunity 

to donate a kidney to his brother, Gordon.

It's amazing how tender feelings 

of memories of important happenings in our lives, 

long ago, are still so close to the surface.

We have had about a month to prepare and study, 

and we found multiple resources from the scriptures 

and General Conference talks and other articles.

Elder Richard G. Scott's talk in April, 2012,

is an excellent one.

Much of what we shared is so personal, 

but we each feel such a closeness 

to members of this branch.

We both felt a huge sense of relief 

after that Sacrament Meeting, 

but very gratified that we had shared 

and that we had learned a lot in our preparation.

My net from the research, remembering and pondering?  
The Lord is always there to help us, 
if we only will ask.