Robert writes home #70 2 June 1996



2 June 1996

Dear Mother,
                We finally got some summer weather. It’s about 100 out there today. Maybe my watermelon will grow now.
                We’ve been enjoying some fruit. I love having a variety of fresh fruit available We have peaches, plums blackberries, loquats and mulberries all ripening now on our trees.
                Megan is having a job location change from Sacramento to Merced. Her partner got laid off. So they gave her a new partner and a new location. She’s in the throes of moving and relocating. She’ll probably stay here and commute for a few days. That will be nice having her here with us for while. She’s doing a little better at her job as time goes on. She’s not up to making enough to save much yet, but she didn't get laid off. Did I tell you that she’s selling Clark pest control door to door? This is what Pete did last summer. By the end of the summer he was really making good money, but he started out kind of slowly.
                Last Friday was the ward seminary banquet. I was really impressed with how scripture proficient the kids were. We have a big seminary class. There were about 12-15 getting certificates plus the ones who didn’t come enough to qualify. Charlie finished his third year. He gets up and drives 20 miles to Los Banos every morning to attend…without us ever getting him up. We just hear the car leave. I’m sure it has some built in rewards like getting to drive 40 miles when you’re 16 and getting to visit good Mormon girls every morning when he is the only Mormon boy in his school. We have some good and good looking girls in Los Banos seminary.
                Did I tell you that I’m going to do EFY again this summer? I asked for the weekend before the 25th of July hoping to tie it to the Miller Reunion. I got BYU the Thursday and Friday before that weekend. But they changed the family reunion to the 12th, so I’ll miss it again, it looks like. But I hope to get down to see you that weekend, July 19 or 20.
I’m going to Ohio in 10 days for EFY, I am going to catch Ricks on the way home and do one there before coming back to California. I plan to be in Idaho Falls visiting Mary and Jeff for Father’s Day. I’m excited about the summer.
                School gets out next week. Sam graduates from the eighth grade on Wednesday. He’s getting steadily taller. He’s about 5’8” now and Charlie is about 6’3”
                Mary is having a baby at the end of the month, her second.
                Melinda and Dan moved from Honeyville to Tremonton and into a new house about a month ago. Their baby is having some eye problems and not growing very fast and cries all the time which is taking at toll on Melinda.
                We had a good testimony meeting today. People were waiting in line. I usually get up in the audience but today people were stacking up in the choir seats waiting their turn, so I went up and by the time my turn came it was 10 minutes past cutoff time so I got up and walked back down to my seat when the last one finished. Then the bishop got up and said he wanted to hear my testimony so I did it from my seat and ran the meeting over. But they were very good testimonies and brought with them the Spirit.
                We had a new family in the ward today. They just moved in from Campbell (by San Jose) where he was a seminary teacher. They are African-American. I’m excited to have them.
                The church work is exciting. I just go with that underlying awareness of the great over-all plan and it keeps me excited. It gives wonderful hope for the future and substance to faith. I’m thankful for the faith of my children. When they have faith of their own they keep the commandments for the same reason I do instead of because I told them to and it gives me a measure of security.
                I love you and pray for you everyday.
Love

Robert, Janet, Charlie and Sam

PS Magdalene, thanks for that article about Anti-oxidant vitamins and glutathione. I agree with most of what he says. I’m not sure what the whole truth is but I feel strongly that the principle is correct…cholesterol is a problem because of the lack of the right things more than the presence of cholesterol. That aging concept might have some truth to it also.






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