Family Letter!

Dear Family,
Mike came home this past Thursday night and will return on next Wednesday. Mandy came home Friday and will return Thursday of next week. (Friday we went to mom and dad's for dinner with Mike and Kyle and Maria and family). They came home for Mandy's best friend marriage ,Angelie Lindthort, soon to be Staal. We meet his whole family from Holland on Saturday (dinner at the Gibbs and temple Saturday evening). Does anyone speak Dutch? It was fun to meet them (Angelie in-Laws). The wedding will be this Wednesday.
FLASH: Saturday in the afternoon, I cut my finger while cutting some carrots for Mom's roast to be served Sunday for our family gathering. Not the best timing for cutting a finger since we had to go out to Kaiser to see if I needed stiches. Fortunately, the cut was too wide, I took a chunk out abut 1/4 inch wide x 1/2 inch long, so they bandage up the wound and sent me on our way. Darn those carrots! The finger is fine, just have to watch it for infection. I t is all bandage up and will get better day by day.

Well, Sunday was a big day also, since we had Ward Conference and I had to speak as well as the Stake President. This evening we had the big dinner over at the Institute, since the home is getting too small for all to meet in. Jake and Cindy and Family, Mike and Mandy with The Gibbs, and Maria and Kyle were all invited. We tried to get the Standings too, it would have been a great bishopric special (but they did not make it)! I am glad things will settle. At least I won't speak for a week or so. Busy till 4pm with interviews and then right into the dinner so I did not leave the church building from 7am-7pm this day! It was good to see family, but I will sleep tonight!
Love you all!
Dad

Family Letter!

Family Letter!

Dear Family,
We have anxiously been waiting for this weekend because of General Conference. What a weekend it has been! Do you have a favorite talk? I like Elder Holland, Bednar, and Perry as well as the Prophet's talk. There has been much to build us up and help in these troubled times. May we all do our part in finding an area of improvement and make a change for the next six months. I know I have made notes and will be discussing those things with my wife. What about you?
We Love and pray for you often. Next year we might go down and experience conference in person. I have never been to the new conference Center for General Conference. I do remember back in the day when Conference was in the old Tabernacle. That was the last time I went to conference. We would get up early and drive down to SLC at 4:00 am in the morning to stand in line to get into one or two sessions. Thoses were the days when the Tabernacle held only 8000 people. A large number in its own right, but today the number is something like 22,000.
I got the lawn mowed between session yesterday, and the cars washed in another. All in all, it was a productive day. I got to stay at church between session to watch the church news portion and see all the hightlights of 2008-2009.
Kyle comes home with the family this coming weekend. He gradutes on Thursday. Congratulations, Kyle!
Hope things are going well with you all!
Love,
Mom and Dad