Robert writes home #35 April 23, 1994

#35

April 23, 1994

Dear Mother,

                                Last week I got a letter from EFY. They finalized my acceptance and sent me a contract and assignment to speak at EFY this summer at two sessions one in Provo and one in Missouri. (I asked for those two places because they are closest to my married kids.)

I speak on Tuesday, June 7 and Friday June 10 in Provo. I plan to come to see you on the Wednesday or Thursday, if I don’t have to do anything else for EFY on those days. I’m scheduled to speak 4 hrs at Provo and 6 hrs at Missouri. It’s kind of scary how that it’s final. I’ve never spoken for that long. I think each session is 50 minutes. I think they expect a different topic each session. My talks are usually about 20-30 minutes.

I get to do a warm up in Modesto in May. I’m scheduled to speak two 50 minute sessions at a regional Single Adult conference. There I get to repeat the same presentation. They asked for a talk I gave at a fireside which only took about 30 minutes. I hope I can stretch it out without it slowing down their enthusiasm. But I’m really excited about it all. I haven’t done this much with a summer in along time.

Magdalene, I was really intrigued with those prophecies you sent me. That one about Russia is exciting. I sent copies to Pete.

The man that called Magdalene, Ron Linsdell, is renting the Manti place now. I hope it works out. It’s better to have someone in it, I hope. I was under the impression from the people I talked to about it that it would cost more to fix it up to put on the rental market than it was worth, but hopefully, The McLoughlin’s tour (our friends who lived there last winter) fixed it up enough to get by.

We let Sam go with Charlie on a Boy Scout campout in the hills last night. It was the first time since his hospitalization that we have let him do something like that. He came back in good shape and excited about having gone. The doctor said he could also lay baseball and basketball, which should open up his life a little.

The watermelon patch is coming up and looking good. So are all the fruit trees. We have good set of fruit this year.

A swarm of bees took up residency in the walls of my barn for which I’m happy. Bees make a big difference in the crops and I’ve had a difficult time keeping bees. They get poisoned when the farmers spray the cotton. Hopefully these will last long enough to pollinize my fruit, corn and watermelons.

Janet is going back to see Susie in two days. She was going to help her with her Baby but Susie wanted Janet to wait long enough for her to feel like doing something with Janet before she came. This is the time she picked

That’s about all the news.

Love,

Robert

P.S Mary just called to tell us that she thinks she’s pregnant. They have been wanting to have baby for quite a while, so she is pretty happy.