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Elder Nelson - Mission Tour with Elder Johnson

Dear Family,

Mission News
The fun of this week was Elder Peter M. Johnson of the Seventy and his wife came for a mission tour. They had meetings from 8:00 in the morning to 9:00 at night for the better part of 4 days. On Wednesday we gathered half of the missionaries at the Centreville Stake Center and Elder and Sister Johnson taught and led discussion from 9:30 to 4:30. He asked me to explain what happened at the day of Pentecost. Fortunately I knew a little bit about that event. Later Mom and I role played. Mom was the friend and I was her member friend. The missionaries did a great job in the role play. One sister (Sister Zammaron from Gilroy) had only been in the field 3 weeks, but she was great. At the end of the meeting Mom and I were asked to share our testimonies because this is our last mission conference.

Wednesday night Mom and I helped out at a dinner with the stake presidents and their wives had with Elder and Sister Johnson at the mission home. Mom was a very good Martha cleaning up the kitchen. I wanted to be Mary and listen to the discussion in the other room.

Thursday Mom did dinner when the Seniors met with Elder Johnson. We picked up food from Costco and other places so it wasn’t a lot of cooking just setup.

Sister Chesbrough, Sister Brandenburg, Vennard, Zabriskie, Mom and I, Larsen, Christie, Cook, Gowans, Downs, Tobler. Sitting down: Elder Peter M. Johnson and his wife, Sister and President Caplin

Friday Mom visited Nancy. She is a bit lost and alone. Her son Lucas has some mental health issues and gets angry. Finally she is allowing him to be seen by a psychologist.
Saturday after attending a very nice baptism in Warrenton, we attended Stake Conference with Elder Johnson. He led a discussion for the better part of two hours on what we can do to accelerate the gathering of Israel and prepare for the second coming. It was a very good meeting and the Spirit was there

Fun Stuff
I had trouble sleeping Wednesday and Thursday nights. So I slept in on Friday and did not get into the office on Friday until 10:00. That felt good!

WES News
One closing cost I had overlooked is sales tax on the equipment we sold when we sold the company. I am afraid we will have to pay sales tax on $750,000.

Family News
Chelsea and Keri have planned a fun weekend at Kent and Lindsey’s place in April. They have not told Kent and Lindsey yet.

Love you all,
Dad

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