I am sitting on the back porch with Dad, it is dark and we are remembering times when you have all been here. Matt is here and he is doing so good. We have our fingers crossed. He is getting a bowl of cereal and strawberries. He is working with the nicest men is Wallsburg building a house. He come home so tired and hungry and he is ready for bed early. But he likes what he is doing and he is working hard. He still loves Candice and they have started talking on the phone again. She is in Arizona and loves her job. I am reading a book that is incredible. I might just have to share a part or two with you.

The Book is called Rescuing Wayward Children. There is a part where it talks about the fact that our children proved valiant in the cause of truth and enjoyed an exalted past, they had a strong testimony in the pre-existence. We must bear testimony

often to them to help them recall the sense of having know before. Jeffery Holland calls these spiritual re collections "echoes of other earlier testimonies" It simply remains for the Awakener to do the work of awaking. God will give them weakness that will humble them and draw them to Christ. God's timing is an act of mercy. He is not going to

lose any of his children.

Is this not gorgeous!

"Nothing has so profound an effect on you as the way your children turn out. Through the sealing ordinances of the temple, special powers are given to parents that tether a child to them. Harnessing that power is the quest of a lifetime." I am so hopeful, and not afraid like I have been for so long.

Marion has been in the hospitol for two weeks, she is tired and wants to just jump over to heaven to see Don, her first husband, but it isn't going to be that easy. I have a 97 year old friend up the street that is trying to die. I look at her each morning and see the dearest angel there. What lessons life has to teach us. I love my family!