Wednesday, April 28, 2010

A spiritually fulfilling week

Wednesday we started off by welcoming home Eli's brother, Andrew from the California Fresno mission. It was so good to see him and has been so nice having him home. He is finally getting his feet on the ground. He is living with us and it is great. The morning after he got home I was talking to Zach and said "doesn't it feel good to have Andrew home?" and he said back to me, "that's because he has the Spirit with him, mom." What more can I say....
Our family on the right, Elder Hancock's family on the left
Andrew and his friends Cody, Brantley, Scott, Britni and our boys. It is so fun having them in our house again, keeping us busy.

Elder Hancock & Elder Peña. They both served in Fresno and got to travel home together.

On Saturday Eli's brother Jared and his wife Maquel got to go through the temple and then be sealed together and to their little boy, Lucas. Next to my baptism and sealing it was the most spritual thing I've experienced. When they brought Lucas into the sealing room, the feeling was almost overpowering. He is such a sweet little baby and they have such a neat family. I'm so excited for them and am so blessed that I got to be a part of their special day.
Some handsome Peña men & boys

The happy eternal family

4 comments:

Anneliese said...

I love any event that will get the family together - well as long as it's my family and not Zachs :-)How fun for you all. Such a good looking family. Where's Rhea??

Rowbury Adventures said...

What a very fulfilling week! AW that's so awesome andrew is home, I bet everyone is loving having him back from Fresno! ps. I miss seeing you at zumba!

The Lloyd's said...

I still can't believe he is home already! That went by so fast.

Erin Rebecca said...

A lot of neat things happening for you guys lately. Welcome home to Andrew and congrats to Jared and his cute little family. We miss you guys and we need to get together sometime soon.