Grateful

I love my husband. He is sweet, strong, supportive, helpful, spiritual and funny. Since late high school, where our relationship began becoming somewhat serious we have always said that we were good balance for each other, just like my parents. I am loud, and crazy and fun loving and I say everything and hold back hardly anything-which is good and bad at times. Lester is more on the reserved, organized and responsible side-he doesn’t say much because he doesn’t feel like he articulates himself well, but when he does it is well thought out and important. He brings out the more reflective, thoughtful and kind side in me, and I bring out the more outgoing, spontaneous fun in him.

So that’s why this Sunday when he got up to bear his testimony I was slightly surprised. It was a simple testimony, but a beautiful one-he didn’t share a story or make any funny jokes like most of the people before him. He just stated what he believed-what he knew and what he was grateful for. As I sat in the congregation, I thought to myself how blessed I am to call this man my husband and to spend my life with him loving, living and learning with him-sure, there were difficulties in getting their and cynics-and there are still now, but we are living out our happily ever after and it is wonderful. Shortly after Lester sat down, our good friend Tyler got up and bore his testimony. He referred back to Lester’s testimony for a moment, and I felt grateful that others get to see him the way I do, and also that we have such great, fun and spiritual friends. His testimony was also very heartfelt and inspiring.
We are so blessed. So even though our Christmas decorations are already up and we are more excited for that season then the rest, I am grateful for thanksgiving which give me another excuse to just stop and marvel at how blessed I am and give thanks to my Heavenly Father for my wonderful husband, family, friends, religion and of course food!

PS: I should mention that when Lester got up to bear his testimony, our friends Josh & Catherine who are Philly’s fans passed us this note: