Rachel Junior

July 29,2018 Dear Great, Great, Great Grandchildren, This week you will commemorate  our families  journey to Zion as you dress up as pioneers and reenact the sacrifices and trials of our westward trail. Please remember that although your experience will be hard, it will be impossible for you to fail. Food will be plentiful and you will have resources for medicine or other things should you need them. Our journey on the other hand was not so guaranteed.    We didn’t have the Twitchell’s providing our food. We were hopeful that the price we would pay would not require our lives. Alas the price was our four small children. Our first babies were twins and they were only 4 years old when we left Denmark to follow the saints to Zion where we hoped we would find the religious freedom our hearts longed for after we were converted through testimony born by the Holy Spirit to our souls that we could not deny no matter the cost. We knew that God knew and he would hold us accountable

July 6, 2018 Dearest Rachel, I was asked to write you a letter to read on Trek and have several things I would like to share with you. First, I want to share the joy that you have brought to me! I prayed for years for a little girl. I had two experiences in the temple regarding you. The first was a day I was in the temple praying and praying. I had two things on my heart. The first was to have a daughter. I had 4 sons and was desperate for a little girl. Not that I didn’t love every wonderful boy thing that my sons brought to my life because I did but I knew a girl would be different and bring me joy that was different. The second was to be a full time stay at home mom. As I was praying hard I felt someone sit down beside me- so much that I peeked to see if there was a dent in the chair next to me but there wasn’t. I heard a voice in my head say “Your petition has been granted”. I wasn’t sure what petition because I felt like there were 2 things I wanted with all my heart.