Sunday, June 25, 2017

Letter 6 24 2017

News:
Mom's friend Katherine (form Sweden) was in town this week to pick up her daughter who was here as a foreign exchange student last year.  They spent a few nights here.

Adam went to Scout camp with Jonathan Hunter.  The Hunter's are leaving to Australia July 8th for Dave to be a professor.  They'll be gone for an indefinite period of time.

The last few times we've been on the lake we haven't gotten the tube out which is nice.  Sydney is wanting to become a better wakeboarder and everyone else is wanting to surf.  I think this summer I'm going to insist that Riah and Manna learn out to surf.  I'll keep you updated on that.

Finally, Manna willingly got on a bike and can now peddle around without crashing.  It's about time.

Today I gave a lesson on self-reliance.  You may know that the church is pairing self-reliance training with the PEF with great results.  The videos on the church website are pretty inspirational even though most of them are dealing with people in third-world nations.

One of the areas that impresses me is the focus on become spiritually self-reliant.  You're learning valuable habits on your missions and I hope you're committing to maintain those habits the rest of your lives.  I think the pressures of society will continue to take it's toll on those who are not spiritually self-reliant.  Undoubtedly you will have friends that will fall away and that will be sad for everyone involved.

Keep the faith.  I love you both.

Dad

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