Robert writes home #41 18 Dec. 1994
18 Dec 1994
Dear Mother,
We have all the college kids home now. It's really been fun. Meg got home on Thursday and Heidi, Carrie and Janet came home on Friday. Meg slept about 6 hrs. on friday after getting up for breakfast and the others slept in most of the morning on Saturday. I think they're caught up on their sleep now. We decorated the Christmas tree last night. We had been keeping it outside where it was damp and cool til they got home.
Today I took them into the ward computer to show them the Family Search program and it's potentials. After looking up their ancestors on the ancestral file they decided to check for Elvis Presley and Cary Grant on the IGI and found that their temple work had been done. That surprised us all.
We had a great musical program for Christmas today. Les Stringfellow, our ward music leader, has really done a job with the music department of the ward. He had the brass ensemble playing prelude in the half hour before Sacrament meeting started. Then the choir, and ACapella quintet, a youth choir, and the primary chorus, and a solo by Cheryl Hixon were all featured in the program...and they all did well and were on pitch. It was pretty impressive, for Los Banos.
The scouts had an outing Friday to Pioneer park and the Pinnacles State Park. They camped overnight at Pioneer then went on to the Pinnacles on Sat...They had about 25 scouts go and had a good time. Stuart Schofield (My dental associate) is the new YM pres.
Pete has a place to stay and a job waiting at the Y...He's been making arrangements this past week. Carrie got him the job. He starts work Jan. 3.
Pete has been having a lot of allergy and asthma trouble since returning to the San Joaquin valley. He said that he had no problems in Canada. I've been having him help me with my farm work...pruning fruit trees, hauling wood and tearing down some old chicken pens. I've really enjoyed visiting him. He's given me some new insights on missionary work the role of bearing testimony and challenging the recipients to seek confirmation of the Spirit. I have been thinking of it in reference to the five inactive families that I home teach. I think I've been missing the boat with them...too much socializing and not enough testimony. I really like Alvin R. Dyer's thoughts on this subject.
I hope you're doing well, mother
Love, Robert, Janet and kids
Dear Mother,
We have all the college kids home now. It's really been fun. Meg got home on Thursday and Heidi, Carrie and Janet came home on Friday. Meg slept about 6 hrs. on friday after getting up for breakfast and the others slept in most of the morning on Saturday. I think they're caught up on their sleep now. We decorated the Christmas tree last night. We had been keeping it outside where it was damp and cool til they got home.
Today I took them into the ward computer to show them the Family Search program and it's potentials. After looking up their ancestors on the ancestral file they decided to check for Elvis Presley and Cary Grant on the IGI and found that their temple work had been done. That surprised us all.
We had a great musical program for Christmas today. Les Stringfellow, our ward music leader, has really done a job with the music department of the ward. He had the brass ensemble playing prelude in the half hour before Sacrament meeting started. Then the choir, and ACapella quintet, a youth choir, and the primary chorus, and a solo by Cheryl Hixon were all featured in the program...and they all did well and were on pitch. It was pretty impressive, for Los Banos.
The scouts had an outing Friday to Pioneer park and the Pinnacles State Park. They camped overnight at Pioneer then went on to the Pinnacles on Sat...They had about 25 scouts go and had a good time. Stuart Schofield (My dental associate) is the new YM pres.
Pete has a place to stay and a job waiting at the Y...He's been making arrangements this past week. Carrie got him the job. He starts work Jan. 3.
Pete has been having a lot of allergy and asthma trouble since returning to the San Joaquin valley. He said that he had no problems in Canada. I've been having him help me with my farm work...pruning fruit trees, hauling wood and tearing down some old chicken pens. I've really enjoyed visiting him. He's given me some new insights on missionary work the role of bearing testimony and challenging the recipients to seek confirmation of the Spirit. I have been thinking of it in reference to the five inactive families that I home teach. I think I've been missing the boat with them...too much socializing and not enough testimony. I really like Alvin R. Dyer's thoughts on this subject.
I hope you're doing well, mother
Love, Robert, Janet and kids
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