Time to be JOYFUL!

I read over the post I wrote the other day and I depressed myself!  Ugg.  Enough of that!  I have so much to rejoice about!  Today I got to spin on my bicycle in place for 30 minutes and sweat like crazy!  I also had time to study the scriptures, a beautiful thing.  I found a story about my grandpa's great grandma named Anna Larsen.  She is a true hero...
 
She was in the Hodgett Wagon Company which was traveling with the famous Martin and Willie Handcart Companies.  She was rescued with the others by the group sent by Brigham Young.  Her story is so beautiful, it brought tears to my eyes and a firm resolve to be more like her.  She lost her sweet baby boy on the journey, they had to chop a hole in the frozen ground to bury his tiny body.  Her husband's feet froze and he was unable to walk for six months.  This is the part that inspired me the most, "Anna always reminded her posterity to keep the commandments.  Her granddaughter, Sarah Clawson Johnson wrote: "How often I have sat and listened to grandmother relate the sad experiences of her life, ignored and disinherited by her family because of her faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  She had come from a wealthy family and was at a finishing school in Copenhagen when she met grandfather.  Then the sad death of her baby boy, who had frozen to death and was buried in the wilderness of Wyoming.  I have asked many times, 'Grandma, how did you stand it all?'  And then in the eyes of that little determined person, I know that expression was real when she said, 'It will be worth it if my posterity will keep the faith.'"


To read the whole story go here-- 

http://dlarsen.tripod.com/larsen/histories/Johannes_Larsen.html