Dear Peter part 2

Dear Posterity,
I'm finishing my letter to Peter today.

Dear Peter,
I knew when we got married that I had made the best choice ever for an eternal companion. You had already finished a year of school at UVSC before your mission and since I had enrolled you for BYU you were ready to start in the Fall after our June wedding. After 2 1/2 years of BYU you were finished with your undergraduate work (you hard worker you!) and we left Zion and went out in the mission field for graduate school. At the University of Utah were truly a blessing to those wards who needed guidance from leaders who understood how the church worked in Zion and it was a trying, but wonderful time in our lives.

By the time we returned to Zion we had been married 5 years and had 7 children! The Lord provided and our kids were growing wonderfully in the gospel at your knee. You are such a great father and provider for us. The children adore you and respect you as the leader of our home. Conducting PPI's with them every week has been such a blessing for them from the age of 2 on.

I love how you lead our family in righteousness and how you are willing to trust in the Lord in the 'unplanning' of our family. Our children have been the greatest blessings of our lives!

Now we've been married for the best 15 years of my life and we have the best 14 kids ever! I know that we chose each other in the pre-existence and are soul mates.

You complete me!

Love, Molly

The Best Eternal Companion Ever!

Dear Posterity,
I was reading today as part of my 'past Ensign' study that I do on Wednesdays about showing our spouses that we loved them. I felt like I needed to share with you why Peter is the best spouse and father ever. I decided to do it in an open letter to Peter.

Dear Peter,
I knew when I met you in Young Woman's at that combined activity after the ward split that you were going to be my eternal companion. Of course you were a Priest and 16 at the time and I was only a Mia Maid and 14. Of course we became great friends and I saw you a lot after I became best friends with your younger sister. I feel like this allowed me to see your personality and how you treated your mother- which showed me how you would treat me when we were married.

When I turned 16 and we began to date for the year before you left on your mission it was so wonderful. I am so glad that we decided that we weren't going to kiss until we were over the alter so that we could remain pure and undefiled for the temple. When you got your mission call to Brazil I just knew you'd be the best missionary ever and that you must have been super righteous in the pre-existence to be called to a foreign mission, especially to one so hard as Brazil!

That two years was the longest two years of my life. I wrote to you every day and I could see your testimony growing every week in the letters you sent home to me. You were so righteous only writing on P days as instructed by your mission leader. My love for you grew as you were the youngest AP ever in your third month in the mission. I just know that you'll be a General Authority some day, or at the very least a Mission President.

When you came home was the happiest day of my life up to that moment, followed quickly by the best happiest day one week later when we were married in the Salt Lake Temple (you do know that's where all the most righteous members are married). Our first kiss as a couple over the alter was mind blowing and spiritual. That night as we knelt as a couple before we began our 'married life' together and then had our first married scripture study I knew this is how truely Celestial marriages are. Of course it only got better from there (wink, wink).

It's nearly 6:10 and time for me to wake children up for our homeschooling early morning seminary so I'll continue this letter tomorrow.

Love, your wife. (Molly)