Lovely Aunt Lorna...

See this pretty lady?

She returned to her Heavenly Father this week after 106 years of life. It’s been amazing to me to listen to what a legacy she left. She’s my beautiful great-great Aunt Lorna that led a remarkable life.

Lessons I learned from her:

           

-Waiting is worth it. When I compare my 21 to her 106, what I consider to be a forever long wait to reach my goals, really isn’t as “forever” as it seems.

-Gospel and family are the highest priorities. The most important legacy that you leave is your children.

-Education will enrich your life.

-Life is an adventure.

-True love stories really exist, and they do, in fact, last forever. The temple is where these stories truly begin. 

-It’s possible to make everyone you meet feel like they are your favorite person.

During her life she encountered and knew the likes of Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo, Pancho Villa, Gordon B. Hinckley, and John Dewey…. To name a few. But the idea that was reinforced yesterday at her funeral and burial is that the people that were the most important to her, were the children and grandchildren that filled her home.

She’s listed in the Who’s Who of American Women and yet she made a commitment to put others far above herself. She served in the temple until she was 99 years old, and served various missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Yesterday was a celebration, an inspiration to feel the glow of a life so close to the Savior.

She literally wore out her life in the service of God. And I want to do the same.           

With Great-grandma Law, Aunt Ruth, and Aunt Vesta

"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 neighbor's children.

I 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

 Great-grandma Law and Aunt Lorna at a symposium to honor Lorna at 105 in a Women of Faith Lecture Series