{"id":23598,"date":"2022-11-04T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=23598"},"modified":"2022-11-04T23:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:05:55","slug":"behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_172752487.MP2_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_172752487.MP2_-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_172752487.MP2_-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_172752487.MP2_-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_172752487.MP2_-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_172752487.MP2_-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_172752487.MP2_-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is just a portion of the cookies we decorated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_232929490-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_232929490-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_232929490-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_232929490-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_232929490-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_232929490-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PXL_20221103_232929490-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Refreshments and handouts ready to go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been a busy few months preparing for a stake Primary training about temple and family history work. On the day of the training, Paige and I decorated 70 temple cookies, and that was a big job. Thank you, Paige!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the effort to prepare for this evening can&#8217;t be shown. Truly, it was not about the pretty cookies. There was a lot of personal and collaborative work. It was a spiritual journey. By the end, I realized this wasn&#8217;t &#8220;my&#8221; training at all. My original ideas for the evening slowly changed to something better, thanks to counseling with my presidency and an enthusiastic high councilor. Answers to prayers came. My small hope for some help from a few temple and family history consultants resulted in around 16 people showing up to teach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s my birthday weekend, and as I look back on my last week of being 47, I can say that it was one of the best weeks. I was with my Sanchez family in the temple, along with Richard, Paige, Daniel, and McKenna. I got to see ordinances performed for people from my own labors in family history research. And towards the end of the week, I believe miracles happened at our training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_7905-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_7905-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23603\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_7905-1024x673.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_7905-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_7905-768x505.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_7905-1536x1009.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_7905-2048x1346.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">We gathered at the grave for my grandparents the morning after we completed their temple ordinances.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Promised Blessings of Family History\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q1omtTaXTwg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Modern apostles, including David A. Bednar, Quentin L. Cook, Neil L. Andersen and Dale G. Renlund have promised many powerful blessings to those who participate in Family History and Temple Service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy few months preparing for a stake Primary training about temple and family history work. On the day of the training, Paige and I decorated 70 temple cookies, and that was a big job. Thank you, Paige! Most of the effort to prepare for this evening can&#8217;t be shown. Truly, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/behind-the-scenes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Behind the scenes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,40,36,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-family-time","category-hope","category-jesus-christ","category-life-according-to-angela","category-temple-and-family-history-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23598"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23627,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598\/revisions\/23627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}