Robert writes home #114 5 April 1998
Dear Mother,
We got a lot more rain last week. This is going on and on. I have to drive through water to get out of my lane. It's pooling at the bottom of my pasture from the run off and flooding part of the road and my lane.
We went to conference this weekend. It was good. I gave my usual test for a bottle of pop to Sam and Heidi Jo. I asked them important questions like what is the favorite cereal of the MTC? (Lucky Charms...they eat tons of it per month.) And which cereal is only consumed at the rate of 16 lbs. per month. (All Bran) Did you hear that talk? It may have been in the priesthood session.
Local little league baseball season is getting off to a slow start with alot of games getting rescheduled because of rain.
I'm going to get two weeks off from teaching seminary. Tomorrow I start my visiting other ward's seminary classes to pickup ideas. Then the following week is spring break.
I'm excited about visiting. I'd like to see how the other teachers do it.
Today is Janet's birthday. We've been celebrating for acouple of days. She's sixty two. That's amazing to me I still see her as a young woman...just a little beyond when I married her. Time flies when you're busy with a family. We want to go on a mission before we get too old. They won't take us as long as we have dependent kids at home. Maybe we can go when Sam goes. That will give me a chance to run the four year seminary cycle. I love that seminary assignment. I don't know why I'm so excited about it. I'm not doing that well. I haven't connected with the kids very well. And I'm not sure they understand what I'm trying to tell them, but I still get excited about doing it.
Last week we were doing the "Beatitudes." I had never realized before how important the subtle differences between the Bible and the B of M were. In 3 Nephi 12:3 He says "Blessed are the poor in spirit who come unto me, for theirs is the kingdom." The italicized phrase is not in the Bible and it makes all the difference. The subsequent verses re prefaced with the continuing conjunction, and, which ties them all together qualifying them with the same phrase "who come unto me." What a profound difference those few words make. In the Bible it sounds like it's saying that it's good to be miserable and meek, mourning, poor and downtrodden. Whereas, in the B of M it says that if you'll come unto him, he will eventually deliver you from those states of misery.
Further, it designates when he's talking to the twelve and when to the masses, while the Bible doesn't. Some important stuff got left out of the Bible.
The Book of Mormon is a beautiful thing...it clarifies the Bible and makes plain the things that are confusing like chapter 11, on baptism.
It seems like I'm running into new insights like that about every other day as I prepare for the lessons. I needed this assignment.
The Book of Mormon is one of the great miracles of our age.
Love,
Robert, Janet, Heidi Jo and Sam
We got a lot more rain last week. This is going on and on. I have to drive through water to get out of my lane. It's pooling at the bottom of my pasture from the run off and flooding part of the road and my lane.
We went to conference this weekend. It was good. I gave my usual test for a bottle of pop to Sam and Heidi Jo. I asked them important questions like what is the favorite cereal of the MTC? (Lucky Charms...they eat tons of it per month.) And which cereal is only consumed at the rate of 16 lbs. per month. (All Bran) Did you hear that talk? It may have been in the priesthood session.
Local little league baseball season is getting off to a slow start with alot of games getting rescheduled because of rain.
I'm going to get two weeks off from teaching seminary. Tomorrow I start my visiting other ward's seminary classes to pickup ideas. Then the following week is spring break.
I'm excited about visiting. I'd like to see how the other teachers do it.
Today is Janet's birthday. We've been celebrating for acouple of days. She's sixty two. That's amazing to me I still see her as a young woman...just a little beyond when I married her. Time flies when you're busy with a family. We want to go on a mission before we get too old. They won't take us as long as we have dependent kids at home. Maybe we can go when Sam goes. That will give me a chance to run the four year seminary cycle. I love that seminary assignment. I don't know why I'm so excited about it. I'm not doing that well. I haven't connected with the kids very well. And I'm not sure they understand what I'm trying to tell them, but I still get excited about doing it.
Last week we were doing the "Beatitudes." I had never realized before how important the subtle differences between the Bible and the B of M were. In 3 Nephi 12:3 He says "Blessed are the poor in spirit who come unto me, for theirs is the kingdom." The italicized phrase is not in the Bible and it makes all the difference. The subsequent verses re prefaced with the continuing conjunction, and, which ties them all together qualifying them with the same phrase "who come unto me." What a profound difference those few words make. In the Bible it sounds like it's saying that it's good to be miserable and meek, mourning, poor and downtrodden. Whereas, in the B of M it says that if you'll come unto him, he will eventually deliver you from those states of misery.
Further, it designates when he's talking to the twelve and when to the masses, while the Bible doesn't. Some important stuff got left out of the Bible.
The Book of Mormon is a beautiful thing...it clarifies the Bible and makes plain the things that are confusing like chapter 11, on baptism.
It seems like I'm running into new insights like that about every other day as I prepare for the lessons. I needed this assignment.
The Book of Mormon is one of the great miracles of our age.
Love,
Robert, Janet, Heidi Jo and Sam
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