Dear Family,
Mission NewsSunday Dinner with our Stake President Taylor McConkie, grandson of Bruce R. McConkie. Mom and I met him when he was 4 years old. We were considering moving to Colorado Springs and his father was the bishop. His father invited us over to his house to talk about the good places to live in Colorado Springs.
Sunday’s visit was delightful and the food was very good too. Their older daughter is coming home from Australia – Chinese speaking mission on Feb 4. I would like her to help me with the “Inviting” training I have put together.
Tuesday our Senior Council discussed and role played Come and Help inviting. It went well.
Wednesday a fellow from the missionary department (Jeff Beck) came from Salt Lake to discuss a concept they are considering – a Digital Pass-along card. It is felt that paper pass-along cards are not effective with some people, because people, especially people of the younger generation are not used to business cards.
Here’s how it works. With the Digital Pass-along Card the missionary receives a picture – in this case it was a picture of Jesus. The missionary modifies the image by putting their names and phone number at the bottom of the picture. Instead of the missionary giving a paper card to the friend, they get the phone number of the friend and text the image with their contact information to the friend. The friend has the image where he is used to finding it (on his phone) and the missionaries have the friend’s phone number.
Mission NewsSunday Dinner with our Stake President Taylor McConkie, grandson of Bruce R. McConkie. Mom and I met him when he was 4 years old. We were considering moving to Colorado Springs and his father was the bishop. His father invited us over to his house to talk about the good places to live in Colorado Springs.
Sunday’s visit was delightful and the food was very good too. Their older daughter is coming home from Australia – Chinese speaking mission on Feb 4. I would like her to help me with the “Inviting” training I have put together.
Tuesday our Senior Council discussed and role played Come and Help inviting. It went well.
Wednesday a fellow from the missionary department (Jeff Beck) came from Salt Lake to discuss a concept they are considering – a Digital Pass-along card. It is felt that paper pass-along cards are not effective with some people, because people, especially people of the younger generation are not used to business cards.
Here’s how it works. With the Digital Pass-along Card the missionary receives a picture – in this case it was a picture of Jesus. The missionary modifies the image by putting their names and phone number at the bottom of the picture. Instead of the missionary giving a paper card to the friend, they get the phone number of the friend and text the image with their contact information to the friend. The friend has the image where he is used to finding it (on his phone) and the missionaries have the friend’s phone number.
Friday – Picked up computers used by missionaries for Facebook advertising. We now have members doing all of the computer work and the computers are not needed by the missionaries.
Saturday – Baptism of Elder and Sister Cook’s friend Charlene from Gabon Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabon. They have been teaching her for a number of months. Her native language is French so they had to go slow. She has made good friends with several members for the ward.
Fun Stuff
We had dinner with Jung family again on Tuesday. This time we had our two Korean sisters with us. Sister Seaver has been out 7 month as an English speaking missionary and speaks no Korean. Sister Joeng was born in Korean and lived in Korea until she was 13. Two weeks ago President Caplin changed Sister Seaver’s assignment from English to Korean. We were impressed by how much Sister Seaver has learned in two weeks. She gave a blessing on the food in Korean and helped with a Spiritual Message also in Korean.
Sister Seaver’s parents had 7 children. Then the adopted 5 more from Vietnam, China (our Sister Seaver), two from Samoa, and one from Central or South America.
I missed lunch on Tuesday so I ate a lot at the Jung’s that evening. When I was done, Brother Jung loaded my plate with food. I finished that and he loaded my plate again. Then for desert we had apple pie and ice cream. He gave me two pieces of pie and lots of ice cream. Woe! That was a lot of food. When we got home, I just sat in my big chair the rest of the night. Actually I was content, but I could not move.
Monday night I spent 2 hours on the phone with Fisher Investments doing financial planning. If we believe him, we will be OK financially for as long as we live. Of course we could waste it all in riotous living, but Mom did not think that was a good idea.
WES NewsThere are still a few things that need to be done to close the business. One thing I feel bad about is that two of our biggest customers at WES are now very slow. I talked with them this week and it looks like the reason they are slow is because of issues inside the companies. Not much we can do in the short term.
The company that bought WES wants me to make some sales calls.
Family NewsTo my knowledge all are well and happy.
Love you all,
Dad
Saturday – Baptism of Elder and Sister Cook’s friend Charlene from Gabon Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabon. They have been teaching her for a number of months. Her native language is French so they had to go slow. She has made good friends with several members for the ward.
Fun Stuff
We had dinner with Jung family again on Tuesday. This time we had our two Korean sisters with us. Sister Seaver has been out 7 month as an English speaking missionary and speaks no Korean. Sister Joeng was born in Korean and lived in Korea until she was 13. Two weeks ago President Caplin changed Sister Seaver’s assignment from English to Korean. We were impressed by how much Sister Seaver has learned in two weeks. She gave a blessing on the food in Korean and helped with a Spiritual Message also in Korean.
Sister Seaver’s parents had 7 children. Then the adopted 5 more from Vietnam, China (our Sister Seaver), two from Samoa, and one from Central or South America.
I missed lunch on Tuesday so I ate a lot at the Jung’s that evening. When I was done, Brother Jung loaded my plate with food. I finished that and he loaded my plate again. Then for desert we had apple pie and ice cream. He gave me two pieces of pie and lots of ice cream. Woe! That was a lot of food. When we got home, I just sat in my big chair the rest of the night. Actually I was content, but I could not move.
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| Brother Jung, Sister Jung, Sister Seaver, Mom, Dad, Sister Joeng. |
WES NewsThere are still a few things that need to be done to close the business. One thing I feel bad about is that two of our biggest customers at WES are now very slow. I talked with them this week and it looks like the reason they are slow is because of issues inside the companies. Not much we can do in the short term.
The company that bought WES wants me to make some sales calls.
Family NewsTo my knowledge all are well and happy.
Love you all,
Dad
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