Dear Family,
Well Evan, we loved your funny letter. I know that the whole incident was embarrassing but when you look back at it a few years from now you will laugh. Does everyone remember Hannah swimming on the floor at your reception?
The best news for this week is that Dad is feeling much much better. He has a little cough usually in the morning but other then that he is back to be his old self. After spending a week mainly stuck in the apartment it is good that we can get out and do our job. Sat. Dad and two other Priesthood Brothers finished the skirting on a single ladies trailer house. They finished what had been started a few months ago. I stayed home cleaned the apartment and made bread and wrote letters to some of my very favorite people which is of course the family. Brother Lewman our home teacher and Linda Walker my visiting teacher keeps in contact with us. But Linda and Bruce will soon be leaving on their mission so that might be the end of getting letters from my visiting teacher.
I am going have to stop and pick this up later this afternoon
Dad here. It's now 3:00 PM. We are now suppose to go out and do missionary work. During the month of November our whole mission is on a special mission. The mission has been building up to this for months. The Mission has set the goal of 100 baptism, 100 confirmations, and 100 reactivations during the month of November. They have never had that many baptisms in a month before. Part of the working towards this goal, all of the missionaries are cutting their p-days short and will be out to work by 2:00 PM. Well we have be out all day already, volunteering at the seniors, meeting with a lady who was baptized in July, so we could meet her husband over lunch, taking birthday cookies to the new Branch Presidents Family. We just got back in. so I think we will do our laundry and clean the apartment and write our letters. Besides we have never kept the regular missionaries time schedule.
By the way yesterday at sacrament meeting, a member of our branch, who is a member of the Stake Presidency, got up and released our branch presidency. I was shocked, not that they were released, but because it should have happened long before. The Branch President moved our of the Branch boundries earlier this summer. But he wasn't released. We had branch conference last week and he wasn't released. There has been a lot of oppurtunities to do it. It just never happened. Then Sunday without any warning, they released the Branch Presidency. The first counselor was made the new branch president, the 2nd counselor was made the 1st counselor, and brother Van Anturp was made the 2nd Couselor.(His job changes in the spring and his new job is in Little Rock and him and his wife were moving down there.) I guess it will all work out. Brother Jack Cook who was sealed to his wife last Saturday was made the Branch Executive Secretary. It was a very emotional time for me. I wasn't expecting it and then I am really going to miss President LaVetter. He has been the most missionary minded church leader I have ever worked with. Well, things will go on.
There is a young married couple that has been attending church this past month. They were neighbors to Amanda, who was baptized last week. Since she didn't have a car, so they would bring her to church on Sundays. They also are taking the lessons from the Sister Missionaries. They are young, like 18 years old, and they have the cutest little twin girls(about 6 months old.) Yesterday their auto insurance had lapsed and they needed a ride to church. The Sisters asked us if we could help out, so we ended up driving the husband and the twin girls to church, the wife rode with other members. And we took them back home after church.
Thank all you guys for sending us letters and things, we so enjoy hearing from all of you. It makes our day to get a letter or e-mail or picture or note from you and the grandkids. We enjoy the funny stories and the not so funny.
Mom here. In some ways it is harder to serve this time. The last time we were all working together and helped each other. This time the Elders and Sisters don't work together and don't seem to want to and they don't want our help. So we just go and do our own things, it is a little awkward at times. I finally asked Elder Wahl if he would remember to tell us about District meetings and other meetings. Coming in the middle like we have, I think that it is easy to forget about us. I spent a lot of time while Dad was sick making birthday cards for all the members in this Branch and I just right on making cookies.
We need to close, Dad just brought up a retro lamp that member found for us. We really don't need it but he was so excited that he had found one, so we will use it.
All of you have a good Thanksgiving and we will also. Love to you all
Dad&Mom, Papa&Grammy
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