Dear
Family & Friends,
Happy Father’s Day to you all!!
As reported last week, Monday was
our Mission Tour/Zone Conference with Elder & Sister Arnold. We went to the Office at 7:30 so we could get
some things done. The missionaries
started their Leadership meetings at 8:30 and the Seniors joined them at 10:30
for the actual Zone Conference. Sister
Wakolo reviewed and taught Jacob 5 (The Allegory) which centered in Christ
being the Tree. He also needs to be the
center of our lives. Then Sister Arnold
taught about obedience. She told about
when she was a girl she had to ride the fence on her parent’s ranch. The purpose was two-fold: to make sure the fence had no gaps in it, and
to keep the cows from the wheat. But
some cows just weren’t satisfied with all the wonderful field grass on their
side of the fence. They would push
against the fence hard to try to reach the wheat. One day she came on a cow that had pushed so
hard against the fence, that the fence was down and the cow was bloating from
all the wheat it had eaten. “No, no!!”
she said, “eating the wheat will kill you!
The fence is there for your protection!!” She rode her horse to find her dad and bring
him back, but when they got back the cow was dead. “Why wouldn’t you let the fence protect you
and keep you safe?!!” That is what the
commandments and obedience are all about—they are there to protect you and keep
you safe. President Wakolo talked about how in the scriptures, each time
Heavenly Father introduces His Son, He says, “This is my beloved Son.” And that is what we all are—His beloved
children, His sons and daughters—and that is what all the people we teach
are. Then Pres. Wakolo talked about the
kind of missionary Sister Susan Fulcher was:
one who put people first, who loved the ward members as much as she
loved the investigators, who always tried new ways of doing things, and who had
a positive attitude at all times. Then Elder
Arnold then taught about changing our own attitudes and behaviors and becoming “Fulcher
missionaries.” If we want to change the result
we have been obtaining, then we need to do things differently and think outside
the box. We had a quick hour for lunch
and a Conference photograph, then were back in the meeting practicing different
ways of doing the Work. It was a wonderful
and spiritual day!! The missionaries
started a fast to have baptisms in July, and we fasted with them. They all left pretty quickly after the
meetings ended at 4:00, and it was real quiet in our building.
Tuesday we received 3 new missionary
recommendations, plus I had mail from the prospective missionaries with
information that we had asked them to return to us. Also, we get wonderful letters from parents
introducing their sons or daughters to President & Sister Wakolo that I
print up and give to them and put one copy in their file. Also, letters that are for their son or
daughter to read when they come. So we
were busy all day Tuesday and Wednesday.
For Jim Monday is usually quite a busy day, so missing most of it caused
him to be really busy on Tuesday. Did
laundry Wed. night.
Thursday and Friday Jim had stuff to
do all day, and I had stuff to do in the morning but was done by about 2:00
each day. So I asked Jim if I could help
him, but there was only a few things to do.
I did send out lots of mail and answered some phone calls, but most were
for other people in the Office. Sister
Cahoon went home sick with a cold on Thursday and most of Friday. Jim & I did our cleaning on Friday. Stopped at the store for a few things on the
way home, and had a nice relaxing Friday night.
Saturday we did aerobic exercise, which
we do three times a week, ate, vacuumed and dusted the apartment, cleaned up,
made a sandwich and ate it while we drove to the store for some candy and lemon
meringue pie for Father’s Day dinner/dessert.
Then we went to Larry and Holly’s and picked up the kids and took them
to see “Finding Dory.” It was just as
good as “Finding Nemo” and we laughed out loud a few times and shed a few tears
at other times. It also had a really
cute short at the beginning about a baby sandpiper. What a sweet time we had!!! Then we went to dinner with L&H at Larry’s
Pizza, then we left them and went to meet the Cahoons (Sister Cahoon was
feeling much better) at the Little Rock Community Theater where we saw a
performance of “Annie, Get Your Gun.” It
was very well done and the leads were good looking and great singers.
Today was a lovely Sabbath Father’s
Day! We enjoyed seeing the grandkids
singing in church, and also Holly and all the women and Young Women. Then I helped a bit in Primary, took some
pictures after church, went home and had naps!!! (love Sunday naps), then went
to eat a delicious lasagna dinner at Larry and Holly’s, along with salad,
French bread, and lemon meringue pie and different kinds of ice cream for
dessert. We adults also played “Balderdash.” Came home to visit with the kids and
grandkids.
Love, Elder and Sister Hartzell
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