"#Smile Bigger" and some "#Sweet Torture"

"Our Greatest Blessings Come From Our Greatest Trials" This quote was found in Connor's scriptures by our 3rd son Brandon... on the day of our youngest son Connor's Funeral.  We were all pretty shocked and comforted by his deep thoughts written in his scriptures and it brought us great comfort to think that "someday" this great trial would one day be a blessing. After his funeral and even recently I have Googled this statement and have found VERY LITTLE results... and only ONE nearly EXACT quote...  So now I wonder what he was thinking or what prompted him to write this in his scriptures. And a few weeks ago when I was listening to this podcast on Hi Five Live by  Steffani Keetch Dastrup  AGAIN this quote came up... and brought all kinds of tears.  So I went to her YouTube channel... you can click on the Blessings link to bring up her sister and her singing the song by Laura Story. ~~~~~~~~~~ BLESSINGS ,  by Laura Story We pray for bless...

If a picture could speak a thousand words... this is what this one would say:  Grandma got up at 4:30am with Grandpa as he prepared to go golfing with son #1 {Brian} & #2 {Shane} and left the house... Grandma quickly got busy cleaning and doing somethings that can only be done when the MAN {Greg} is out of the house! {You know you take a day off work to get ahead of the mess}...  To the basement to wash t he quilt, back down to the basement to wash the sheets and that's when I notice W A T E R in  Connor 's room A G A I N {it happened a few years ago, only that time it was EVERYWHERE... ankle deep on both sides of the basement!!!}... walk in and realize that it's throughout 1/2 the basement and then there is the REAL Tsunami {of tears} again... seeking out the source I find that this time it's the water heater that let loose!!  I didn't want to ruin the sacred time the "boys" were having up at Wolf Creek Golf Course on their once ...