Rewind

Today filled my heart.  As it is fast Sunday I promptly forgot and consumed a bowl of corn flakes this morning. Remembering on my way to church (with my mother, it's wonderful to see her again....finally) I decided I would delay the usual time frame and begin then.  Usually I would just push it to the following Sunday but much weighed on my mind.

I decided yesterday that I would visit a ward not of my own (anymore), but the ward in which i spent most of my formative years (from a few months prior to baptism till I went on my mission).  Before I even walked in the building I ran into a friend that I had looked up to while I was in the Aaronic Priesthood.  This began a day in which I would encounter people that had influenced me in many ways, from previous bishops to young men leaders to just fine outstanding people who provided an example of balanced, righteous living. 

The stock of the day rose when I found out that two other certain people were there.  These two and I had grown up together being the only ones of similar age that were there for a long period of time (though I was the outsider considering they were cousins).   One lives in Idaho and one in South Carolina so I found it quite lucky that the three of us decided to descend upon the church at the same time.  There was a lot of reminiscing and catching up.  They are both married and were showing off their children and teasing me for not being married myself.  It was quite wonderful and brought back even more memories more poignantly then before.

It was definitely nice to go and see the old ward and catch up with friends

(Dunno why this didn't post back in August)