We had a wonderful time visiting while we ate our dinner of baked potatoes which came from potatoes grown in our garden last summer. We also had broccoli cheese sauce, cheese, sour cream to go on top and a green salad and home made bread. I tried making whole wheat sour dough bread and everyone seemed to like it. I love baking with sour dough these days.
After dinner we had our lesson which was about wonderful women in our lives who have remained faithful to the gospel even through very difficult challenges and have left a wonderful legacy for their posterity. We talked specifically about Dad's Grandma Anderson. Her parents came over from Sweden and had a very difficult time making ends meet in Benjamin, Utah. After she married Henry Anderson, they moved to Nebraska to farm. There was no branch of the church there so they attended the Church of the Brethren but she taught from the Book of Mormon in Sunday School.
She remained faithful and true to her testimony for her whole life. We also talked about my Grandma Wiest who also had a very difficult life when her husband left her with 3 boys, ages 12, 9 and 6, the oldest being Grandpa Wiest. She took in boarders and cooked for BYU students and did laundry for people to earn enough to support her family. She taught her boys the gospel through word and deed and remained faithful to the end.
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