A while back I was at work at the Distribution Center when someone came in and I asked what I could get for them...they said "I love your accent! Where are you from?" and I laughed and said "Moroni, Utah"....she said "Who are your parents?" I said "Don Ray and Ramona Christensen"....and tears came to her eyes as she said "Our family LOVES your dad." I then asked "who are you?" and when I heard her name I nearly had tears too. I had talked her dad into coming up to Corinne to sing at sacrament meeting... and then invited him to our house for dinner. Before he left for Moroni he had told me a few stories about my dad. One I had heard from dad but it was "once upon a time there was a home teacher..." He had never told me he was the home teacher in the story.
I was trying to decide which word I would use to describe my dad if I could use just one word...and several came to mind...perhaps the first was "faith"....my dad had such incredible faith.... "entertaining"....oh how I loved to hear my dad sing and yoddel...and tell stories and jokes. He was so fun to be around! I loved to go to the farm to hang out with him. It was always so much fun working with him. "Service" always comes to mind when I think of dad...he dedicated a part of everyday into doing something for others and secretly and quietly was the way he worked. He didn't want others to know of his good deeds. "Loyal" is another word that describes dad. Loyal times ten. Many stories could illustrate this..."Dependable" when my dad said he would do something you could consider it done. "Honest".... there are many words....dad loved children. He loved serving in the nursery! I always knew he loved us kids. He made our yard a fun place to be with the different things like the bouncing, twirling tractor seat deal...and the wagon wheel teeter totter...and the flying trapeze...and swings hung from the trees...and the tree house and the airplane deal that hung from the tree....and the sand box and that slip and slides that he made before they even were invented! ...lots of things!
One of the things that stood out about my dad to me....is how much he loved me and believed in me...and the trust that he had in me. I didn't want to let him down. I miss him! Happy Birthday Dad.
I was trying to decide which word I would use to describe my dad if I could use just one word...and several came to mind...perhaps the first was "faith"....my dad had such incredible faith.... "entertaining"....oh how I loved to hear my dad sing and yoddel...and tell stories and jokes. He was so fun to be around! I loved to go to the farm to hang out with him. It was always so much fun working with him. "Service" always comes to mind when I think of dad...he dedicated a part of everyday into doing something for others and secretly and quietly was the way he worked. He didn't want others to know of his good deeds. "Loyal" is another word that describes dad. Loyal times ten. Many stories could illustrate this..."Dependable" when my dad said he would do something you could consider it done. "Honest".... there are many words....dad loved children. He loved serving in the nursery! I always knew he loved us kids. He made our yard a fun place to be with the different things like the bouncing, twirling tractor seat deal...and the wagon wheel teeter totter...and the flying trapeze...and swings hung from the trees...and the tree house and the airplane deal that hung from the tree....and the sand box and that slip and slides that he made before they even were invented! ...lots of things!
One of the things that stood out about my dad to me....is how much he loved me and believed in me...and the trust that he had in me. I didn't want to let him down. I miss him! Happy Birthday Dad.
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