From Dad 1/6/2008
Hi Family,
It has been a good week. We are also glad the holidays are over and we will be able to see more people once again. Mom is truly a people person and it drives her nuts when it is just us two. There is only so much we can think to talk about 24/7. As for me, I love every minute we are together. I will miss it a lot when the time comes for me to share her and be away from her so much of the time. This has been a good experience and a good time for us. To have someone as your personal tutor on how to figure things out, how to read people, how to see the common sense approach to everyday things has been nothing short of awesome! The list of good things goes on and on. We love going for walks. There is something that happens every time we come away from an appointment and the Spirit was there. Holding hands, talking gently one with another, thinking good things are all examples of what happens after we have especially felt the strength of the Spirit. This is what a mission is all about.
Brother Tindell we met with yesterday morning pays his tithing regularly. He works every week end and going to Church at this time in his life is not an option. We are the only option at present. His wife is very nice. She is a member of one of the long standing churches in the area but never goes and has no interest. We would love for the opportunity to sit down with the two of them at least once before we return home to see if a spark may still be there in her feelings about our Father in Heaven.
The man sister Sack has lived with for almost 20 years met with us and talked about religion for the first time yesterday. He was raised in a home that followed the communist ideas about God being something or someone you wanted out of your life, not into it. He is a member of one of the churches but holds no warm feelings about God. He does have important good feelings about the woman who has shared her life with him the past 20 years. Mom suggested encouraging her to read with him a few minutes every day in the Book of Mormon to see if he would not once feel some desire to know more about his Heavenly Father. We hope something will come of this. So little is understood about the love of our Father in Heaven that He would allow His Son to make such a sacrifice for us, or the love His Son had for us to got through what He did to make it possible for us to return to our Father in Heaven. There is no other way.
We hope you can feel our love for you even though we are many miles apart. We think about you every day. We are so thankful for the internet and the pictures, the letters, the funny stories, even the challenges. Keep them coming. We look forward to telling you thanks in person in a couple of short months. Have a great week.
We love you all always,
Dad and Grandpa
It has been a good week. We are also glad the holidays are over and we will be able to see more people once again. Mom is truly a people person and it drives her nuts when it is just us two. There is only so much we can think to talk about 24/7. As for me, I love every minute we are together. I will miss it a lot when the time comes for me to share her and be away from her so much of the time. This has been a good experience and a good time for us. To have someone as your personal tutor on how to figure things out, how to read people, how to see the common sense approach to everyday things has been nothing short of awesome! The list of good things goes on and on. We love going for walks. There is something that happens every time we come away from an appointment and the Spirit was there. Holding hands, talking gently one with another, thinking good things are all examples of what happens after we have especially felt the strength of the Spirit. This is what a mission is all about.
Brother Tindell we met with yesterday morning pays his tithing regularly. He works every week end and going to Church at this time in his life is not an option. We are the only option at present. His wife is very nice. She is a member of one of the long standing churches in the area but never goes and has no interest. We would love for the opportunity to sit down with the two of them at least once before we return home to see if a spark may still be there in her feelings about our Father in Heaven.
The man sister Sack has lived with for almost 20 years met with us and talked about religion for the first time yesterday. He was raised in a home that followed the communist ideas about God being something or someone you wanted out of your life, not into it. He is a member of one of the churches but holds no warm feelings about God. He does have important good feelings about the woman who has shared her life with him the past 20 years. Mom suggested encouraging her to read with him a few minutes every day in the Book of Mormon to see if he would not once feel some desire to know more about his Heavenly Father. We hope something will come of this. So little is understood about the love of our Father in Heaven that He would allow His Son to make such a sacrifice for us, or the love His Son had for us to got through what He did to make it possible for us to return to our Father in Heaven. There is no other way.
We hope you can feel our love for you even though we are many miles apart. We think about you every day. We are so thankful for the internet and the pictures, the letters, the funny stories, even the challenges. Keep them coming. We look forward to telling you thanks in person in a couple of short months. Have a great week.
We love you all always,
Dad and Grandpa
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