DearJosh,
Iwrote you a letter Saturday, and am mailing it this morning, but I do not haveyour mailing address here. Can you please email me your current mailingaddress.
Mom,Justin and Mic are in California with Amy. Amy, with a group of friendsentered a 24 hour race from Los Angeles to San Diego. They all took theirturns running, mom said they had a good time. There were over 100 teamsentered 200+ miles divided by a team of either 10 or 12. I guessthat you get to rest but that is a lot of miles.
TheSunday School president asked that I teach adult gospel doctrine instead of theteenagers. I am really nervous about the change. I really liketeaching the high school students. Do you remember when I taught yourclasses, was I any good? Did you learn anything from the lessons Itaught? Sometimes I know that I get through to some of them and othertimes I know from the blank stares that I don’t.
Fromthis week’s lesson came one of my favorite missionary scriptures; John 7:17
Onone occasion men who were listening to the teaching of the Savior cried outagainst Him. They opposed his works, as men do today. One asked,“How do we know that what you tell us is true? How do we know thatyour profession of being the Son of God is true?” AndJesus answered in just a simple way (andnote the test): “ If any man will do his will, he shall know of thedoctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself.”
PresidentDavid O McKay said of this verse, “That test is most sound. It ismost philosophical. It is the most simple test to give knowledge to anindividual of which the human mind can conceive. Doing a thing,introducing it into your very being, will convince you whether it is good orwhether it is bad. You may not be able to convince me of that which youknow, but you know it because you have lived it. That is the test thatthe Savior gave to those men when they asked him how they should know whetherthe doctrine was of God or whether it was of man.”
Therewere many times that I challenged investigators with that verse. Youdon’t have to believe me, as the Savior and he can testify to you of thetruthfulness of the doctrine which we, as missionaries were teaching them.
Wehave had lots of rain and snow along the Wasatch front. I hope when itall melts that there is not a lot of flooding. I know that you do not rememberthe floods of 1983. We had neighbors on Jeanne Ave that had their homes(basements) flooded when Little Cottonwood Creek spilled over itshoulders. We were very lucky because the flood waters came down ourstreet and the low area was just to the north and to the west so the waterturned in front of our house and went the other direction. We had a lotof water standing in front of the house but in never came up the driveway.
TheSunday of the flood they let us out of church and told us to get our gloves andshovels and fill and place sandbags. We were busy for a couple of daysfilling and placing sandbags. I bring this up because the snow conditionsare similar to 1983, a lot of moisture, snow and rain and because it has beencold not much of the snowpack has melted and come down from themountains. If it gets hot really fast and the snow comes down quicklythere could be a repeat of 1983.
Yourawesome and I love you so much. You are always in my thoughts andprayers. I pray for you and your companion and know that you are togetherfor a reason. There are people out there that as a companionship you canand should have a purpose to influence. Continue to be patient andobedient. You are such a stud, such a great guy. I pray foryour investigators and for your mission family.
Ilove you.
Dad
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