Robert writes home #88 23 Feb 1997
23 Feb 1997
Dear Mother,
I got a letter from your great grandson, Per, last week. He sent a photo. It was fun hearing from him.
This morning we had ward conference where Bishop Edler gave a great talk.
I was talking to Sister Edler and she said that Phillip, their son who's on a mission to South America, had had his bike stolen at gun point. That sounds like alittle more excitement than he may have had in mind.
I think Bishop Edler is one of the greatest bishops I've ever been involved with. He exudes love, warmth, commitment and concern whenever he talks.
Charlie took one of his non-member friends on the basketball team to a stake dance aweek ago. After the dance he said that he wanted to go to the Priest-Laurel activity that they announced for this week. So Charlie took him to that last night in Turlock. Then he said he wanted to go to church with him today, so we took him to ward conference. We couldn't have picked a better day to go to church. Bishop Edler's talk and President Callister's seemed to me to be pretty impressive to an investigator. And the bishop was so friendly and good to him. He called him up after the mid block meeting in the Relief Society room with President Callister and the single young men to meet President Callister.
Charlie's basketball team got beaten pretty badly in their last game against Washington Union. Charlie felt particularly dejected because he was guarded by the star of the league. He's 6'8" and nimble and is getting all the press and has the scouts at this games. He held Charlie to two points. The final score was 87 to 34. They had three guys taller than Charlie. All three were outstanding players and could dunk. Charlie is the tallest guy on Dos Palos' team at a little less than 6'3". His dream is to dunk but he hasn't been able to do it yet.
It was a very eventful week for Charlie. The day after his basketball team lost, Thursday, Charlie won the Rotary Speech contest for high school students in Dos Palos. He won $100 plus he advances to the next level in Newman, CA on March 11. That evening he had his Board of Review for his Eagle Scout award and got passed, so now he is an Eagle Scout. He just barely got that completed before his eighteenth birthday. Also, the bishop asked him to be the youth speaker at ward conference today. He talked about what he's doing to prepare to be a good father. It was a good talk.
I was really touched when the Young Men's President told me that the Board of Reviewers talked to him afterward and said how impressed they were that Charlie told them that his dad was his hero. No experience in my life has been better than family..being a husband and father.
I've been working on my place pruning the grapes and fruit trees. Charlie helped me tear out some old pens the other day and I've got my grapes trained high and onto a canopy, so I can walk under them, kind of like a big arbor. I'm also going to try na idea I heard for my apples to keep the worms out of them. I'm going to put paper bags over the apples when they first form and let them grow inside the bags. We're trying to get the yard looking decent by the time we have an open house reception for Pete and Jessica in April.
We're praying every day for you.
Love, Robert, Janet, Charlie and Sam
Dear Mother,
I got a letter from your great grandson, Per, last week. He sent a photo. It was fun hearing from him.
This morning we had ward conference where Bishop Edler gave a great talk.
I was talking to Sister Edler and she said that Phillip, their son who's on a mission to South America, had had his bike stolen at gun point. That sounds like alittle more excitement than he may have had in mind.
I think Bishop Edler is one of the greatest bishops I've ever been involved with. He exudes love, warmth, commitment and concern whenever he talks.
Charlie took one of his non-member friends on the basketball team to a stake dance aweek ago. After the dance he said that he wanted to go to the Priest-Laurel activity that they announced for this week. So Charlie took him to that last night in Turlock. Then he said he wanted to go to church with him today, so we took him to ward conference. We couldn't have picked a better day to go to church. Bishop Edler's talk and President Callister's seemed to me to be pretty impressive to an investigator. And the bishop was so friendly and good to him. He called him up after the mid block meeting in the Relief Society room with President Callister and the single young men to meet President Callister.
Charlie's basketball team got beaten pretty badly in their last game against Washington Union. Charlie felt particularly dejected because he was guarded by the star of the league. He's 6'8" and nimble and is getting all the press and has the scouts at this games. He held Charlie to two points. The final score was 87 to 34. They had three guys taller than Charlie. All three were outstanding players and could dunk. Charlie is the tallest guy on Dos Palos' team at a little less than 6'3". His dream is to dunk but he hasn't been able to do it yet.
It was a very eventful week for Charlie. The day after his basketball team lost, Thursday, Charlie won the Rotary Speech contest for high school students in Dos Palos. He won $100 plus he advances to the next level in Newman, CA on March 11. That evening he had his Board of Review for his Eagle Scout award and got passed, so now he is an Eagle Scout. He just barely got that completed before his eighteenth birthday. Also, the bishop asked him to be the youth speaker at ward conference today. He talked about what he's doing to prepare to be a good father. It was a good talk.
I was really touched when the Young Men's President told me that the Board of Reviewers talked to him afterward and said how impressed they were that Charlie told them that his dad was his hero. No experience in my life has been better than family..being a husband and father.
I've been working on my place pruning the grapes and fruit trees. Charlie helped me tear out some old pens the other day and I've got my grapes trained high and onto a canopy, so I can walk under them, kind of like a big arbor. I'm also going to try na idea I heard for my apples to keep the worms out of them. I'm going to put paper bags over the apples when they first form and let them grow inside the bags. We're trying to get the yard looking decent by the time we have an open house reception for Pete and Jessica in April.
We're praying every day for you.
Love, Robert, Janet, Charlie and Sam
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