http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDvxPjsm8E
And here's another one, I went to visit a college friend's father yesterday. He is completely bedridden after a horrible snowmobiling accident where he went flying head first into a tree. Yesterday marked a yr & a half to the date w/o use of his limbs; he is currently paralyzed from the neck down. His wife cares for him non-stop everyday. He is hooked up to many tubes keeping him alive. The other members of the family take turns helping out when they can, some weekly. This, after 3 missions w/ his wife to Finland for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (& a 4th served as a young man, before he was married). Both Stephanie Nielson & this man's names are on the LDS Temple prayer roll as well as on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir one. There is no place like the Temple where I have felt peace here on earth other than serving in the Orchestra at Temple Square with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Going on 10 yrs now as a set-apart musical missionary!
This man, btw, makes violins & I was given the privilege of playing one he made ~ just for him, just a few weeks ago. I learned the importance of service from my parents, but esp. after visiting teaching an elderly woman some yrs back. When she died (at age 83 or so after visiting her for yrs ~ never missing a month), I knew that the only thing truly worth taking with us at the end of this life is service. In fact, I played the violin for her the night before she passed. The healing that swept over her face was amazing as she told me never to come back again ~ w/o it. Unfortunately, that was our last time until the funeral when I performed one of hers, mine, & my Grandma's fav's, "Somewhere My Love." I also visit-taught her daughter-in-law whose husband owns Mormon Art. You can find their statues in front of many LDS historical sites (such as this one) & LDS Temples (sculptor Dee Jay Bawden). Currently, I visit teach a 93 yr old woman (going on 5 or 6 yrs now, never missing a month).
In the pic: Elder Bateman & his wife, Marilyn; Jackie Coleman (portraying Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith); & Pat Glen (wife of Mormon Art owner, Steve Glen)
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