It seems strange to be celebrating
Father's Day by driving to Linden and attending church there. We are
not really well acquainted with the branch there and we only go there
once a month and see different faces each time we go. The Relief
Society President gave each of the fathers a beautiful ceramic mug. Dad
also received a new wallet. I don't know why she singled him out for
that gift, since he was the only one there to receive the wallet.
Anyway, it reminded me of the song we sang at the baptism yesterday,
There's surely somewhere a lowly place in earths harvest fields so wide,
Where I may labor through life's short day for Jesus, the Crucified.
I felt like I was in that lowly place as we celebrated Father's Day
so far away from all of you children and grandchildren. We miss you and
would have loved spending the weekend with all of you, but hopefully,
we will be able to influence some of the people in some of the branches
to work toward making their own families eternal as they prepare to go
to the temple and make covenants there.
It has been a good week. We had Family Awareness
Week. We spent three days at exhibits in the city where we gave out
church literature about family issues. The Elders talked to people on
the street and invited them into the room to learn more. We did find
some really good families and individuals there.
Yesterday was the best day. We went with members
from three different branches and cleaned the walls, floors, and
cabinets of a three story building which was a home for men who needed
extra care. One of the residents there was a man who was the mayor of
Georgetown in the 1980's. He had diabetes and had one leg amputated
below the knee. He was very intelligent and gracious to us. '
Later in the day we attended and provided music for three baptisms, two in the Georgetown branch and one in the Demerara branch.
It
was really good to serve along side of the members and also to be able
to support the new members at their baptisms. It gives me hope that
Guyana is going to continue to grow in faithfulness to the gospel.
We enjoyed visiting with you children yesterday at
the reunion. We hope that you made it safely back to your homes. To
all of our brothers and brother-in-laws, Happy Father's Day. Keep the
Faith!
This is your dad and I need to wish all a happy
Father's day. I have said it before but I'll say it again. One of the
saddest days of my life was when I realized our time for having children
in this life was over. What a blessing children and now grandchildren
are! Thank you for letting me share our lives as your dad and grand
dad.
After church, we visited the Narine family down on
the river. They live in a small raised home and have few material
things. They wash their clothes in the river and hang them on the line
to dry. They swim and bathe in the river everyday. The children paddled
their boat about a mile up the river to attend church. To me it was a
peaceful enjoyable visit. The children are members but the parents
haven't made that commitment yet. Perhaps they will be someday if they
only could see the great blessing an eternal family would bring to them.
Hopefully we can influence them to make the commitment to each other
and the Lord and become an eternal family.
In closing I want to give thanks to a wonderful
Father in Heaven who loves us so much that He prepared the Plan of
Salvation that we can become like Him and go back to live with Him. Let
us always give thanks to Him. And let us always live clean lives that we
may be worthy to return to His presence.
Happy Father's Day
Love, Mom and Dad (Elder and Sister Beutler)
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