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Sunday, August 16, 2009
AJ was still sick so had to take him to Kaiser in Bakersfield. We went in the morning at 9am, but they only had an appointment at 1:45pm. I don’t like taking him to the hospital in Sunday, but our hope that it was getting better on Saturday did not pan out as we would of hoped. Hopefully the Lord will forgive us for our failed gamble of AJ’s health. It turned out that he only had a really bad cold, but we didn’t want to risk it getting worse. We attended the Rama La Puente in Bakersfield, it is a Spanish branch. Denise’s parents are assigned to this branch. The first speaker was from the Bakersfield high council. He didn’t speak Spanish very well and I had problems understanding him. He started out quoting 1 Sam 15 and now he is talking about the difference between feeling bad because you got caught and that of the spiritual loss caused by sining. He concluded his testimony about his belief that obedience brings blessings.The next speaker’s talk was on hope. He wanted his grandchild to be named Hope, but she got named Charity (sneaky way to get your grandchildren in your talk). He says that Elder Uctdorf wrote about hope. Elder Uctdorf escaped Germany in 1944. He told a story about a girl who was threatened with “” burning in the Winter”” (he corrected himself, but it was funny spanish flop). The story was really about a girl who didn’t have any hope because of what she was told, but the truth is that we always have hope when we knows the ways of Jesus Christ.”