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Elder Nelson - Cool News

Dear Family,

Mission NewsA new Senior couple joined our Office District Council this week. They do Military Relations at Fort Belvoir. There has not been a couple serving there for over 4 years, so they are having to make all of the contacts and learn how to be effective. This is a slow and tedious process.

This last week we had 6 bike accidents. Two the them the elders flew over the handle bars. Two of them landed on their heads and one blacked out for a few seconds. One had some serious road rash. Two of the accidents were caused by missionaries riding bikes that were in very poor working order. One elder’s brakes did not work.

We had two car accidents this week. No one was injured. We have had 15 car accidents in the last 5 month, but no injuries. Only one of the 15 was the missionary’s fault.

Saturday we attended another baptism of person from Sierra Leone. After the baptism I told the sister that I was going to send a copy of the program to Elder Savage and Elder Fisher who went home two weeks ago. She said, “We love those missionaries. They are the best. We were lost and they brought us back to Christ. We thank the Lord every day for them.”

We get our first Persian (Farsi) speaking missionary on Monday.

Tuesday we had a meeting with Nancy. It was discouraging. She is highly motivated to have her two children be good people. Her 11 year old son has behavior issues and has not been at all interested in church or the gospel. For some reason he is now interested in Catholic Church, wants to take “CD” lessons (whatever they are) and be baptized into the Catholic Church. Nancy is thrilled with this and does not want to break the momentum of her son going to church. She believes our Church is a good church, but so is the Catholic church.

Fun StuffThis week the temperature was about 10 degrees or cooler than the week before. But the great thing was that the humidity was much less. We had some days that were very delightful.

Adding to the pleasure is that we got the A/C fixed in the car. It does not seem to cool as well as a month ago, but is definitely is much cooler than last week. We are supposed to get thunder storms next week so I suspect the high humidity will return.

Saturday morning at 7:30 I went on a 3 mile walk in the “woods” with our neighbor Tom. We walked briskly for an hour and I was tired. Since it has been so hot, I haven’t walked much and I am really out of shape.

I am trying to get Tom interested in the gospel, but no success yet. I will keep working on him

Another neighbor that lives across the passageway died on Friday. Bill was single and only 71. We did not know him very well, but he was friendly. We were planning to have him over for dinner, but we never got around to it.

We will have visitors over the next few months:

October 17,18 Ralph Mize (my hiking buddy in Santa Clare and arborist)
Oct 20 to 28 Jane, Phil and Janie
Nov 8 to 11 Skip and Diane
Nov 20 to 28 ??? Lance and family ???

WES NewsThis week we quoted two jobs for Meggitt Defense Systems in Irvine, CA. One job was about $400,000 and the other was $1,400,000. The program manager said we will probably get at least one of the jobs, but he did not say which one.
Mom and I want to sell WES, but we are having trouble making time to move this “project” forward. I think the best thing for us to do is to find a good business broker to help us. I think I will shop around for a broker.

Family News
Lance spent the week in Wisconsin for training in financial analysis of businesses.
It seems like the rest of you were recovering from a week of fun at the ranch.

Have a great week.
Love,
Dad

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