Marriage Preparation, Round III

Hello. I am on marriage preparation blog duty again. Yesterday, Laurie and I attended our third marriage preparation session. Unfortunately neither of us were at "full strength" for this session. I had a very long day at work and Laurie had two root canals 8 hours before our meeting. You all should have seen Laurie...chipmunk cheeks and all!!! Hey, you know what they say..."there is no excuse for missing marriage preparation!"

Anyway, the session got off to a bit of a rough start because we gave the deacon the four affidavits (to show we are "free to marry") signed by our parents and then found out that they have to be notarized. He failed to mention this requirement....sooooo...it looks like we will be repeating this step. Fortunately we were able to redeem ourselves by telling the deacon we had booked our "Conference for the Engaged" date and had picked our readings.

The rest of the session was filled with a discussion of the "three pillars of marriage"--permanence, fidelity, and openness to children. I got a good education on how these three pillars resonate from the scriptures and the deacon made sure to emphasize that Laurie and I not wait too long to have children. Wow, he is starting to sound like Laurie's mother Marilyn! If anybody was wondering, our deacon has seven (7) children!

Well....that about sums it up. Next stop--the full-day "Conference for the Engaged." Want to hear how it goes? You'll have to stay tuned! I know, the suspense is almost too much to take...