I Hate Funerals!

So this upcoming Saturday I will be attending my third funeral ever. Funeral #1 was for a women named Cal Hope. I did not know her that well but she had been in our ward for a long time and my mom knew her very, very well. Funeral #2 was Daniel Raliegh. He died when he was 18 from a stroke and then going brain dead, very sad because I went to seminary with him and kind of grew up with him. I cried a lot. Funeral #3 is the saddest of all for me, Daniel Herbert died 3 days ago. He was 13 months old and he died of a brain tumor that no one knew he had. The Herbert's are like my second family. Ellen is my mom's best friend and so it has been very hard for all of us. I think it is harder to see their reactions to the devastating news. Mikayla (the 15 year old daughter) looks dead, she has no happiness in her eyes or face. It is just like she is just a ghost walking around. It makes me want to cry everytime I see her. Justin (17 year old son) is not as physically sad but if you look into his eyes there is a deep saddness there that something is missing. So saturday is going to be a very difficult day, the morning I will be attending a funeral and then in the evening I will be attending Becca Lee's wedding reception so, there will be good and bad on saturday.

But I am so grateful to know of the plan of salvation because I know that they will be with Daniel again because they are sealed in the temple and they will see him again. I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who sacrificed his son so we could be with our families again after we died. And I am eternally grateful for Jesus Christ who suffered and bled for each of us we could be forgiven of our sins and return to heaven to be with our Heavenly Father and our families. I love this gospel and I am so glad that I have it in my life. So I hope I can just get through the funeral on saturday without bawling my eyes out.