Robert writes home #99 29 Oct 1997



29 Oct 1997
Dear Mother,
                I get two days off from seminary this week as they are having inservice in the LB schools. It will be nice to not have to get up at 4:00AM. I’m doing my best in that seminary job but it’s tough dealing with those kids in that comatose state.
                Chris Sanders’ (missionary from our ward returning from Costa Rica) parents had an open house for him last Sunday night. Lots of folks came.
                Dos Palos football team is winning this year undefeated, so far. Last Friday night the Channel 47 news helicopter was there to video some of the game to put on channel 47 news that night. Dos Palos folks get pretty excited about football.
                Heidi Jo and Janet have both been substitute teaching this year. They’re keeping pretty busy, I’m glad to have them making money to help defray the expenses. I think it’s been enjoyable for both of them.
                The ward is having a “trunk or treat” party tonight for mutual. Folks decorate the trunks of their cars and park them in the parking lot so the kids can come around and trick or treat them. Heidi JO went dressed as the tooth fairy, Sam as a Mexican (with a sombrero and poncho) and Megan as a Red Riding Hood.
                I hope you doing well.
Love,
Robert, Janet, Sam, and Heidi Jo
PS another essay:
                As I prepared my seminary lesson on the first three chapters of Jacob, with scripture mastery focus on 2:18, 19 I was impressed with the concept that 10,000 years from now as we look back on the earth (mortality) experience, there will be one event that will overshadow anything else that happened in importance. That is the atonement and resurrection of Christ, The reason being that it was our ticket out of Satan’s domain and back to the presence of our father in heaven. Mortality is a high risk venture. If there had not been provided the atonement and resurrection, we would have been stuck here in the presence of Satan and his army with our spirits separated from our bodies by death and thus in the same condition that Satan is in…all of us separated from our father in heaven…without any hope of progress and becoming like our father. Thus Jacob speaks of our hope in Christ…that is what the hope is about. The ticket of the atonement gives us our only hope. At that point, 10,000 years hence, I’ll bet that the importance of any fame and fortune that we may achieve in life will have faded into oblivion and the dynamics of the atonement will stand paramount in our awareness. Thus he says, seek the kingdom first and after ye have received a Hope in Christ (testimony) you will want riches for the right reason… to do good, feed the hungry, liberate the captive, clothe the naked and administer to the sick and needy. Before we gain that focus on that “hope in Christ,” we want riches to buy status symbols.


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