This week has flown by. We had zone
conference on Monday with our mission President and the AP's I
mentioned that one of the AP's is Elder Creech. He lives in Cornish,
Utah. He grew up on a dairy farm. When he first came out on his
mission last August, he used to go the the neighborhood dairy every week
and visit the cows. He really is a great missionary.
His older sister, Mandy, married Jason Gunnell and
she taught science at the West Side middle school for several years.
It seems like some of you children had her for a teacher. Also, Elder
Creech's older brother married Erin Olson, who is Jason's first cousin,
so their children are both first cousins and second cousins.
On Tuesday,
we woke up early in the morning and headed to Suriname to renew visas
for two of the elders. Unfortunately, we had to go again on Friday for one elder who we missed getting a visa for. We just didn't read our records right.
We met two interesting people from the Republic of
Czechoslovakia on the first trip. They were driving a big motorcycle
all over the world. They had plans to tour every nation in the world
during their lifetime. Unfortunately, they had three children ages 15,
8, and 3 who were left at home with Granny. We asked them how often they
went home and it was seldom. They would tour for a couple of months,
then go home for a few weeks and then be off again.
I told them about how important families are, that
children are the greatest gift we can get from God in this life, and
advised them not to spend too much time away from them. I don't know
how parents could justify that kind of separation from their children
when they are so young.
On the second trip home from Suriname, we met a tall
American man, Randy Spegel, who was traveling alone. He saw our
missionary badges and immediately began asking us questions about our
religion; how it was different from other religions, and what were our
basic beliefs. Since he was traveling to Georgetown, we gave him a ride
to his hotel and had a great visit on the way. Come to find out, he
was actually a member of the church when he was a small boy. He
remembered going to the church farm and picking fruit in the Los Angeles
area. He remembered little else.
He said that his parents divorced when he was about
12 years old and he never went to Church again. He has spent the last
15 years working on computer software programs in Hong Cong. He is now
looking for a change in his life. He would like to get married and have a
family. We hope that he will look into the church once again and
benefit from the blessings of the gospel.
The rest of the week has been the usual, paying the bills, taking care of the Elders and teaching piano.
With
less than two months left to serve we are going to begin training a
couple in the Georgetown branch to serve as office missionaries to help
with the bills and the apartments and cars. They are also busy in the
district. The wife is the district Relief Society president and the
husband is the Elder's Quorum president. They have a 16 year old son at
home, so they will have to budget their time carefully in order to get
everything done.
We enjoy all of your emails and skype visits. We
hope that you are all happy and doing your best to serve the Lord. We
pray for all of you every day and love you very much.
Sincerely, Mom and Dad
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