Robert writes home #98 14 Sept 1997


98
14 Sept 1997
Dear Mom,
                I hope you’re doing well.
                We’re hosting the stake fall, barn dance again this coming weekend. I always worry about the parking. Last year we has a traffic jam. About seventy cars came. It’s hard to park in the field in the dark, but the leaders are going to help me address the problem so maybe it will work alittle smoother.
                It’s really been fun having Heidi Jo here. She’s been redecorating Charlie’s room. She and Janet have completed their application material submission for substitute teaching and should be ready to start next week. So, we’ll see how that works out.
                We sold the old, green, suburban last week. I’m anxious to get my auto insurance payments down. Janet and I don’t need more than a pick up and a sedan. She likes Pete’s BMW pretty well. It doesn’t make her head ache like the Lincoln does, so we might focus on fixing it up. It runs good, but the AC doesn’t work.
                We ran into a watermelon windfall. My patch died with an aphid infestation, but a patient (Von Allmon’s next door to Schofields) had a beautiful patch of Klondikes for their employees. They invited me to help myself. They thought they were pretty well picked over but I went up Schofields driveway to the back corners where there were lots of them that weren’t being picked and got about 15. They were delicious. Then they said they were about to disc them under so I went and got another pickup load (18). We’re still eating acouple of melons a day.
                But, they had disked the patch up when I went by yesterday. I was pretty sad. I felt guilty about taking so many before, but when I saw them all disked in I wished I had taken 40 if no one else was going to eat them. We love those watermelons in the summer
                I’m liking my seminary teaching job. I get excited about it. And I’m used to getting up at 4 AM (I’m just not used to staying up after I get up at 4AM). But Sam gets up early, so we just have a little time together in the mornings traveling to Sem. He’s not in my class. I teach the 11th and 12th graders. He’s in the 10th. Shirley Johnson is his teacher. She does and excellent job. He really likes her class. He gave the devotional that she had seen in three years. He took a shirt that Heidi Jo gave him for his birthday. It’s a T-shirt with a picture of three muscle bound “Son of Helaman” (stripling warriors) with the subscript “MOMMA’S BOYS”. Sam told the story then led them in the primary song “WE ARE AS THE ARMIES OF HELAMAN”.
                Tonight we are going to Merced to see Bro. Arrington’s portrayal of Brigham Young. He’s from Orem. I think.
Love,
Robert, Janet, Sam, and Heidi Jo
Millers

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