from Dad 5/18
Hi everyone,
We have had a good week in spite of 4 sick days. We were just glad they were spread out at the beginning and the end of the week and not every day. It is nice we took turns. The weather is looking better and hope is in the air.
Tim Palmer is preparing to walk through a non divorce separation from the mother of his children with whom he never has been married. It doesn’t leave him with a lot of options. It has humbled him to now have to start over again. He is unsure whether God lives but remembers he has always had good feelings when he has been around LDS people. He is also committed to meet with the bishop and come to Church again as he looks at how he wants to rebuild his life. We were able to have prayer over the phone. We hope soon to be able to visit him in person again. He plans to bring his 9 year old son, who still has faith there is a God, to Church with him when he comes.
Ron Peterson is still working to get the hang of what is the spirit of the law V.S. the letter of the law. When the letter of the law is not kept in their home he loses it. The good part is he feels bad about it. We talked more about when someone is not keeping the rules it is an excellent time to discover how they feel about a whole lot of things. He seems OK with that approach and in exchange to give up becoming angry. Small steps are what we hope for and that Ron will continue to share his feelings with us and eventually will have a desire to come to Church again and the understanding of how activity in the Church will bring him and his family the greatest blessings in how they feel and care for each other in the home.
Brother Vollrath, our tennis star, has asked for the name of someone in the ward to whom he can go with his questions about the gospel after our time in Wuerzburg is past. We hope he and brother Meyer can become good friends. We hope sister Meyer will continue to progress toward baptism. The only thing she still needs to do is to begin praying to know what she is being taught is true. Their daughter visiting with them and who lives in South Carolina came to Church last Sunday for the first time in maybe 16 years. We hope things will continue to progress.
Alex will be 18 next Thursday and will be baptized a week from tomorrow. His mom has told him she will come. We are teaching his grandmother and she asked us for a reading assignment in the Book of Mormon when we were together this week. We hope she too will come to his baptism. When she goes home from the hospital next week we will only have Weinhold as an investigator in the hospital and he thinks he will be released in about two weeks. He too is 18 and has begun reading in the Book of Mormon.
We delivered our revised 19 page epistle to sister Masch for her son in England. Even though he cannot see how the adversary has somehow convinced him he is being more honest not going to Church until he somehow all by himself without accepting any help from anyone regains a strong testimony that God lives and that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true and has been restored, his mother’s unconditional love will be like a light on a hill helping him find his way through the dark.
It is interesting. Sister Masch’s husband pays “their” tithing and other offerings every single month and in full. His love for his wife is obvious. We are looking for a favorable opportunity, hopefully the next time we are together in June, to ask him if he really wants to leave to uncertainty his being with his wife when this life is behind and he finds himself somewhere still going strong after someone has said a few kind words in his behalf. All he needs to do is to pray and feel a testimony in his heart and the Church in this area will be blessed and in good hands for another generation. Mom’s reputation for being a no nonsense, keep movin driver continues to grow. Manfred Masch when he was just leaving the Church Sunday after dropping off his wife saw us with mom driving in her “not about to be late” mode. He smiled and mom acknowledged as he explained tonight the details of turning his head to see who was in that red car last Sunday!
Zach is “one of us” now. We already love hearing about his mission from his family. His short size will distinguish him right away. The food he will love. Sunday night at the devotional as he hears or participates in the 400 missionary voice choir and then hears 2000 missionaries sing “Called to Serve” in 36 or so languages simultaneously he will truly grasp the power in the work of which he is now a part!
Have a great week. Keep the home fires burning bright.
Love always,
Dad
We have had a good week in spite of 4 sick days. We were just glad they were spread out at the beginning and the end of the week and not every day. It is nice we took turns. The weather is looking better and hope is in the air.
Tim Palmer is preparing to walk through a non divorce separation from the mother of his children with whom he never has been married. It doesn’t leave him with a lot of options. It has humbled him to now have to start over again. He is unsure whether God lives but remembers he has always had good feelings when he has been around LDS people. He is also committed to meet with the bishop and come to Church again as he looks at how he wants to rebuild his life. We were able to have prayer over the phone. We hope soon to be able to visit him in person again. He plans to bring his 9 year old son, who still has faith there is a God, to Church with him when he comes.
Ron Peterson is still working to get the hang of what is the spirit of the law V.S. the letter of the law. When the letter of the law is not kept in their home he loses it. The good part is he feels bad about it. We talked more about when someone is not keeping the rules it is an excellent time to discover how they feel about a whole lot of things. He seems OK with that approach and in exchange to give up becoming angry. Small steps are what we hope for and that Ron will continue to share his feelings with us and eventually will have a desire to come to Church again and the understanding of how activity in the Church will bring him and his family the greatest blessings in how they feel and care for each other in the home.
Brother Vollrath, our tennis star, has asked for the name of someone in the ward to whom he can go with his questions about the gospel after our time in Wuerzburg is past. We hope he and brother Meyer can become good friends. We hope sister Meyer will continue to progress toward baptism. The only thing she still needs to do is to begin praying to know what she is being taught is true. Their daughter visiting with them and who lives in South Carolina came to Church last Sunday for the first time in maybe 16 years. We hope things will continue to progress.
Alex will be 18 next Thursday and will be baptized a week from tomorrow. His mom has told him she will come. We are teaching his grandmother and she asked us for a reading assignment in the Book of Mormon when we were together this week. We hope she too will come to his baptism. When she goes home from the hospital next week we will only have Weinhold as an investigator in the hospital and he thinks he will be released in about two weeks. He too is 18 and has begun reading in the Book of Mormon.
We delivered our revised 19 page epistle to sister Masch for her son in England. Even though he cannot see how the adversary has somehow convinced him he is being more honest not going to Church until he somehow all by himself without accepting any help from anyone regains a strong testimony that God lives and that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true and has been restored, his mother’s unconditional love will be like a light on a hill helping him find his way through the dark.
It is interesting. Sister Masch’s husband pays “their” tithing and other offerings every single month and in full. His love for his wife is obvious. We are looking for a favorable opportunity, hopefully the next time we are together in June, to ask him if he really wants to leave to uncertainty his being with his wife when this life is behind and he finds himself somewhere still going strong after someone has said a few kind words in his behalf. All he needs to do is to pray and feel a testimony in his heart and the Church in this area will be blessed and in good hands for another generation. Mom’s reputation for being a no nonsense, keep movin driver continues to grow. Manfred Masch when he was just leaving the Church Sunday after dropping off his wife saw us with mom driving in her “not about to be late” mode. He smiled and mom acknowledged as he explained tonight the details of turning his head to see who was in that red car last Sunday!
Zach is “one of us” now. We already love hearing about his mission from his family. His short size will distinguish him right away. The food he will love. Sunday night at the devotional as he hears or participates in the 400 missionary voice choir and then hears 2000 missionaries sing “Called to Serve” in 36 or so languages simultaneously he will truly grasp the power in the work of which he is now a part!
Have a great week. Keep the home fires burning bright.
Love always,
Dad
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