From Dad 4/26
Hi everyone,
How fortunate can anyone be to have the best companion in the whole world for 18 months! (It’s OK someday when you too will feel the same about your companion in the missionfield as well). Good news is flowing everywhere. What an awesome time to be part of our family. How it warms our hearts to see glimpses into your lives and activities from week to week. It’s almost as good as being there. It is the best of both worlds having so much great communication from home and minutes later to walk into the home of an investigator or a less active member and bring the opportunity to have the Spirit of the Lord in their lives.
Herr Metzner yesterday emphasized he wants to be a good person and asked us if we didn’t agree he can do that without going to church. We agreed. He does have a great love for his family. They have a beautiful 14 or 15 year old daughter right now who is keeping company with someone they would rather it were not so. They have a son who is 21 who is also having some struggles. Their 6 year old foster child (they have had him since birth and feel someday they will be able to adopt him) has been ill. We were prompted to give him a priesthood blessing. His father felt the Spirit. It will be fun to teach them and see how he accepts the blessings that await his family as he learns more about the priesthood and begins to see and want what it can do to strengthen his family.
Bernhardt Fuchs had been written off in my mind. I had not expressed it so plainly to mom when we talked about skipping an appointment with him last night. Mom wouldn’t hear of not meeting with him. When we met with him he had been reading in the Book of Mormon and has agreed to pray about whether it is true and if Joseph Smith was a prophet. He does believe we have a Heavenly Father and that He does hear and answer our prayers. He may be moving soon and if so, we will refer him to other missionaries. He could go up to two minutes without smoking. I sat in the middle and he tried as best he could to sit down wind. When he talks it is like a monotone. We think it is the heavy medication he is on. He is very intelligent.
An ongoing challenge with sister Petra Kempe has been our understanding of astrology. To her this medium is very important. She believes Heavenly Father has given it to her to help her. She is so anxious about it that what needed to be said earlier this week never was discussed. Mom feels in time she will come to understand the Holy Ghost is the only reliable source for predicting the future and understanding events that happen in life and she won’t need to have this for a crutch any longer. Thank goodness for mom and her influence. She is the one with common sense and that helps us over many bumps in the road.
Our friend Stefani gave me some “gas” pills the other day. Mom took one trying to encourage me to “use them”. You all know me love for medicine is almost void. I have told mom I will try. I am a little bit too musical at times. So is life.
Have a great week in Salt Lake and surrounding areas with family this week Zach. You will love the Salt Lake Temple. In two weeks we will look for our first missionary letter from a grandson. How good can life be!
Have a great week. Thanks for all the emails, pictures, videos (if we could just understand why sometimes we can play those on the “blog” and sometimes we cannot) you share with us.
Love always,
Dad and Grandpa
How fortunate can anyone be to have the best companion in the whole world for 18 months! (It’s OK someday when you too will feel the same about your companion in the missionfield as well). Good news is flowing everywhere. What an awesome time to be part of our family. How it warms our hearts to see glimpses into your lives and activities from week to week. It’s almost as good as being there. It is the best of both worlds having so much great communication from home and minutes later to walk into the home of an investigator or a less active member and bring the opportunity to have the Spirit of the Lord in their lives.
Herr Metzner yesterday emphasized he wants to be a good person and asked us if we didn’t agree he can do that without going to church. We agreed. He does have a great love for his family. They have a beautiful 14 or 15 year old daughter right now who is keeping company with someone they would rather it were not so. They have a son who is 21 who is also having some struggles. Their 6 year old foster child (they have had him since birth and feel someday they will be able to adopt him) has been ill. We were prompted to give him a priesthood blessing. His father felt the Spirit. It will be fun to teach them and see how he accepts the blessings that await his family as he learns more about the priesthood and begins to see and want what it can do to strengthen his family.
Bernhardt Fuchs had been written off in my mind. I had not expressed it so plainly to mom when we talked about skipping an appointment with him last night. Mom wouldn’t hear of not meeting with him. When we met with him he had been reading in the Book of Mormon and has agreed to pray about whether it is true and if Joseph Smith was a prophet. He does believe we have a Heavenly Father and that He does hear and answer our prayers. He may be moving soon and if so, we will refer him to other missionaries. He could go up to two minutes without smoking. I sat in the middle and he tried as best he could to sit down wind. When he talks it is like a monotone. We think it is the heavy medication he is on. He is very intelligent.
An ongoing challenge with sister Petra Kempe has been our understanding of astrology. To her this medium is very important. She believes Heavenly Father has given it to her to help her. She is so anxious about it that what needed to be said earlier this week never was discussed. Mom feels in time she will come to understand the Holy Ghost is the only reliable source for predicting the future and understanding events that happen in life and she won’t need to have this for a crutch any longer. Thank goodness for mom and her influence. She is the one with common sense and that helps us over many bumps in the road.
Our friend Stefani gave me some “gas” pills the other day. Mom took one trying to encourage me to “use them”. You all know me love for medicine is almost void. I have told mom I will try. I am a little bit too musical at times. So is life.
Have a great week in Salt Lake and surrounding areas with family this week Zach. You will love the Salt Lake Temple. In two weeks we will look for our first missionary letter from a grandson. How good can life be!
Have a great week. Thanks for all the emails, pictures, videos (if we could just understand why sometimes we can play those on the “blog” and sometimes we cannot) you share with us.
Love always,
Dad and Grandpa
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