My best friend Letty and I were there as we sang together and with “all the sons of God shouted for joy (Job 38:7)” as we are called to participate in a grand council in heaven for the presentation of the eternal plan of happiness. Letty and I rejoiced together with the rest of the spirit children about the great plan of happiness. We started to crave for the opportunity to have a body of flesh and bones as the Father has, that we may be glorified also as our heavenly parents are. We longed to enjoy the glory of being born on earth and be tried and tested to prove our worth of the sacrifices that has to be done by a Savior which would eventually bring us back into the presence of the Father in a perfected and glorified state. We strongly supported the great plan of redemption and eternal happiness.
We were in presence when the war in heaven commenced and when the battle was finally won there again were heard shouts of joy. “And [we] heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of Christ: for the accuser…is cast down…(Revelation 12:10).” I and my friend Letty joined with the chorus of exultant gladness as we are ushered into the grand celebration and the eventual triumph of good over evil.
Letty and I were assigned to be born in the last dispensation of the fullness of times to help usher in the Second Coming of the Lord. We were honored to have been given such a rare opportunity, which many of the nobles and great ones were looking forward to be born in such a time. Yet we were told that it will be a time of deepest trials and great calamities. It will be a time when the work of salvation is going to be in its last stretch and more will be opposing the truth of the great plan of happiness and eternal salvation. There will be a great battle between good and evil that will be initiated and wedged by Satan and his cohorts. We were given perfect knowledge of all that is going to happen, and we express our willingness to be a part of it.
We were in presence when the war in heaven commenced and when the battle was finally won there again were heard shouts of joy. “And [we] heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of Christ: for the accuser…is cast down…(Revelation 12:10).” I and my friend Letty joined with the chorus of exultant gladness as we are ushered into the grand celebration and the eventual triumph of good over evil.
Letty and I were assigned to be born in the last dispensation of the fullness of times to help usher in the Second Coming of the Lord. We were honored to have been given such a rare opportunity, which many of the nobles and great ones were looking forward to be born in such a time. Yet we were told that it will be a time of deepest trials and great calamities. It will be a time when the work of salvation is going to be in its last stretch and more will be opposing the truth of the great plan of happiness and eternal salvation. There will be a great battle between good and evil that will be initiated and wedged by Satan and his cohorts. We were given perfect knowledge of all that is going to happen, and we express our willingness to be a part of it.
While in premortality we made plans and preparations for our journey into mortality. We wished to meet again and be united together. We knew however that our preparations will be quite impossible to attain considering that our premortal plans will all be forgotten as we are required to pass through the veil of forgetfulness. But we asked Heavenly Father to grant our wishes. Our time eventually came to journey into mortality and cross the veil of forgetfulness to enter into the physical body prepared to accommodate our spirits into becoming a living soul. She left first and I bade her goodbye with the promise that I will meet her again on earth. Yet all those memories were gone as it came my part to pass the veil.
However, through the providence of God we meet again. It was of no coincidence that she would be attracted to me with my personality giving the impression of a straggler, while she is well-liked and trendy. By her widespread popularity in the campus, and the smartly expressions of her outside beauty, she appeared even hardest for me to get by. Yet again providence gave place for our roads to cross and my nasty assumptions of her personality and character all vanished. Then eventually with feelings mutual and hands clasped we entered the covenant of marriage. In due time we received the gospel message and our marital bond was sealed for time and all eternity. For some time our mortal understanding opened the memory of our wonderful plans made in premortality and we since worked for its attainment with a covenant and a promise to be true to each other in time and throughout all eternity.
Today is her 66th year when she left her premortal existence and be born on earth to sojourn in this part of her journey to eternity. Indeed, such a mortal probation had been years, months and days of great sacrifices as had been called upon even while in premortality. We are grateful though that our mortal understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ had reminded us of our premortal life and that day when we sang together and shouted for joy sitting abreast in that grand council in heaven in expression of our submission to the great plan of happiness which Jesus Christ presented and approved by Heavenly Father.
In her was gone the worldly youthful attractiveness of long ago, replaced by the golden beauty that shines in glitters of loveliness, resultant of the refiner’s fire that confirmed and displayed her premortal prettiness. The mortal external beauty which was once adored by friends and admirers is now lined with wrinkles which is a symbol of an inner exquisite charm and comeliness that forms out of the boundless love and sacrifices, and a lifetime of service. The beauty in her wrinkles painted and made abstract by those long years of parenting and service in God’s kingdom will be enhanced as she endures the remaining lap of her journey in mortality, until the timeless origin of her premortal beauty blooms back with brilliant glow into eternity.
In her was gone the worldly youthful attractiveness of long ago, replaced by the golden beauty that shines in glitters of loveliness, resultant of the refiner’s fire that confirmed and displayed her premortal prettiness. The mortal external beauty which was once adored by friends and admirers is now lined with wrinkles which is a symbol of an inner exquisite charm and comeliness that forms out of the boundless love and sacrifices, and a lifetime of service. The beauty in her wrinkles painted and made abstract by those long years of parenting and service in God’s kingdom will be enhanced as she endures the remaining lap of her journey in mortality, until the timeless origin of her premortal beauty blooms back with brilliant glow into eternity.
I awaken at early dawn to sing for her a mañanita song, but I was choked by the thought of great gratitude for her eternal love that no words came out, but tears rolled. I instead hugged her tight as I uttered more meaningfully the enduring phrase which I made a daily routine for her---I LOVE YOU! As she sleeps back to complete her night’s rest, I opened her laptop and find for her an hour of beautiful birthday songs, while I arose and sit in front of my computer to write these thoughts on this her 66th year of mortal journey.
TO MY EVERDEAREST LETTY, HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
