The Francis Family: November 2008

Monday, November 3, 2008

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween everyone!! We hope everyone had as much fun as we did! We went trunk-or-treating at our church where there was also a costume competition and tons of candy...needless to say Christian was very pleased :) He was an overweight doctor and I was a chef. Tyson is a chicken (Tyson chicken..the premium brand!)

Christian and I saw the chicken costume on sale for $5.00 at Babies R Us and had to buy it. We thought for that price and that opportunity for future blackmail...how could we resist? Plus, Tyson did make a really cute chicken!

Here are some of our friends here in San Antonio. (Courtney Luff with her twins, Lindsey Whiting with her puppy, Ann-Marie Wood with her clown, and me.) We went Trick-or-treating at the medical school which was really fun! (Two of the four have medical students for husbands so it was legal!!)

Tyson's costume was so warm he fell asleep as soon as he was put inside every time! It was also rather large so he could sit up on his own for the first time :)

Here are all of the cute little ones!! There was Bam-Bam and Pebbles (they're twins), an ad0rable little clown and the cutest puppy ever (her parents dressed up as dog-catchers)! We think next year they will be even more excited about the candy (especially Tyson!)

The Articles of Faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
2. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
3. We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
11. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

A Beautiful Quote

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." Marjorie Pay Hinckley