Saturday, March 23, 2013

What happened?

OK.  I need to vent a little.

I have a friend that we have been as close as brothers.  We have been close for over 10 years.  We would do just about everything together.  The situations we would get in would leave us in stitches from laughing so hard.

A little over a year ago everything changed.  I got married.  He joked around and said that things would change.  We (my wife and I) said no.  I still wanted to go and hang with him and get into those crazy situations.   I figured there would be some changes because there are kids and I do the best I can to help with them.  The problem is that he really never stop calling and except for the occasional text message or the occasional movie night.  We don't do much else.

I feel like I have been shut out and it frustrates me.  I've seen some of the pictures of places he goes and all I think is it would have been fun to have been there.  My wife has seen them too and comments on it.

It is just kind of sad to see a friendship change when it didn't have to .  I'd talk to him but I just don't know if it would resolve the situation.

I guess life goes one, right?  


Sunday, January 27, 2013

Not your typical Sunday

I've been going back to church and becoming more active.  The goal is to go back to the temple and to be sealed to Heather.  It has been such a long time that there is some relearning to go through.

Part of going back to church is to take a temp pres class as part of a refresher coarse.  I have the added blessing of taking the class with +Heather Lane Foster.  I love spending time with her.

In the class, the teacher wants to devote time equally between the temple and also teaching genealogy.  That makes sense since they go hand in hand.  While discussing Malachi 4:6, we where talking about what it means.   As I was discussing what it meant to me, the teacher asked me if I knew my great grandfather.  I responded "yes"and I gave his name "Rudolph Hilbert".  She pulled out a couple of sheets of paper.  One had his obituary on it and the other two had pictures of when he was a child.  I was floored.  I recognized the obituary right off the bat.  It took me a bit to compose myself.  She had felt impressed to pull that information and she had ask the bishop permission to look at our family history.

I remember as a young child sitting on the floor as he told stories about his time back east on the Mississippi.  It was such a long time ago that I don't remember the stories themselves but the memory is something I treasure to this day.



Sadly we don't have much information beyond him but it is something that I would like to research more and see where that leads.

I have been blessed greatly today and I am so blessed to have been able to share this with my wife.  I am very happy with the journey I am on and I am excited to see where this journey goes.