Hallie and Stella

The healing blessing
As you can probably tell, most of the photo's so far are from our Vanity Lakes Pack Trip August 29 through Sept 1. This trip gave me much to think about and to be thankful for. I am preparing a lesson for RS based on Elder Hollands talk "Come Unto Me" given on 2 March 1977 at BYU. So I have been trying to think of personal stories or experiences to fit the sub-topics. Lay Down Your Burden, Peace to Our Souls, Heal One Another, & Christ watches over Us. Last night as I lay there thinking about the blessing of healing (there is a really tender grandmother story in the Sept Ensign I had just read) I realized again how blessed we were on this pack trip. First on Friday Stella just happened to get kabonked on the head by a falling log. (long story- Jed feels awful, Gil feels awful- she could have- should have been majorly hurt or dead) She is wonderfully fine. We are thrilled. That night, Hallie put 3 fingers on the top of a lit lantern and fried her finger tips. Jed could smell the burn before he saw it. It was agony to hear her cry and know how bad a burn hurts. After receiving a blessing, she spent the night with her fingers in a pot of lake water. The next morning Hallie was up and doing with her bandaged fingers. She said that they didn't even hurt. Her fingers blistered, hardened and cracked but she has had no pain. She said "It's just like the prayer said- I wouldn't hurt" So back to the thought from the ensign article- Our Savior has already taken the pain and the hurt and suffered. For us. And sometimes we are so blessed that the pain is taken away completely.