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Elder Nelson - Fun with Siblings

Dear Family,

Mission News
The big event of week was Elder Bennett, our area president, spoke to the missionaries on Friday. Mom got to see it, but I had to watch the office. Mom said it was really good.

An elder that was serving in the Pittsburg Mission came home early for medical problems. The plan is to have him serve a service mission. We will probably use him a couple of days a month. He will be serving in the community helping the homeless on Tuesday and Thursday. He will be working on the temple grounds Monday and Saturday. On the 2nd and 4th Fridays he will work in the Philadelphia Temple. He will do something in our mission on the 1st and 3rd Fridays. I hope he can serve with the full time missionaries.

We did lunch for the return and report on Tuesday.

The car was low on oil – 2+ quarts. I took the car into the shop to find out where the oil was going. They could not determine where the oil was going. I hope our car lasts a couple more years.

There is a neighborhood internet site in an area in our mission. There have been reports of missionaries tracting at 10:30 at night. Of course our missionaries in the area claim they were not tracting so late. That raises the specter of someone impersonating the missionaries. Both seem unlikely. We tell our missionaries not to tract after 8:00.

The two senior missionaries that recently came to the mission are doing a great job of reactivating and finding people for the missionaries to teach.

Fun Stuff
Phil, Janie and Jane came for a visit for the week. Mom and I were party poopers and did not go with them on their adventures during the day. But we did enjoy them in the evenings. One night we played Coup and Jane and Janie won. I think Mom and I were too aggressive at challenging.

Janie made us a beautiful Christmas Tree. It is prettier in real life than this picture.
 It was really fun to be with them. I miss our monthly sibling get togethers. It was good to “get caught up” and do few things together.

Saturday we visited the Museum of the Bible. It was a fun exhibit. It was kind of high tech. There were several good videos and displays. We even passed through the Red Sea on dry ground. There are 7 floors and we made it to 3.5 floors in 5 hours. One floor had old renaissance paintings the “told” bible stories. People at the time did not have bibles and could not read so painting communicated the stories.
Mom and I at the Museum of the Bible
Jane and I at the Museum of the Bible
Another floor had fiber optic light art on the apocalypse – not so interesting.

On another floor they had a presentation of the old testament, the new testament and a large room that showed what life was like in Palestine in New Testament time. Another floor had histories of various bibles that started appearing from about the time of Martin Luther on. Both of these floors were very interesting.

WES News
We made good progress on switching WES customers to Accurate Technology customers this week. Hopefully my “job” will be winding down.

Family News
My cousin, Scott McNeil passed away yesterday. He is Aunt Anne’s 2nd son. He suffered a debilitating stroke awhile back and the quality of his life was very poor for over a year. His funeral service is next Saturday.

Emma turned 14! She attends seminary and high school. She is really old. I love my really old granddaughter! (I love all my younger grandchildren too!)
Love you all,
Dad

PS This letter is three weeks old. Mom and I will try to get caught up soon.

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