From Helen

Dearest Myrna and Tim: thank you for your e-mail. Please know you have my deepest regards at this very tender time. The sojourn of a soul to the Spirit World always leaves such a lonesomeness, filled with gratitude, love appreciation and a deep sigh of " Oh, my word, my very word, just for now."

Thank you for the information about Julie and baby Jens, pray all is well. Have called several times at your home,  and then realize you folks are probably staying in Mt. Pleasant caring for the grandchildren.

Do want to let you know also, Tim, I am going to do decorating of all the graves this year- already have the flowers, and plan on doing the round trip on Thursday the 26th May- am also taking flowers, from Claire, for her graves in Manti.

Pray all is going well for the rest of the family- Again deepest love and regards. What a comfort comes from the  principle of the gospel expressed in The Doctrine and Covenants Section 130:1-2.
Love to all-  Helen, Aunt Helen.
Anything I can do please let me know. Thanks.

From Eva

My Dear Myrna,

 I am so sorry for your loss.  I can only imagine the pain you surely feel.  My only experience with losing a sibling doesn't really count.  I have always felt a loss at never having known my oldest brother, one day in the not too distant future, I will finally get to be with Jimmy. You know your brother. I still have the pleasure of knowing what mine looks like ahead of me; like Dick, Tim or maybe my uncle Neldon who I also never knew except from his 14 year old picture we always had on our wall  May God bless you with comfort and peace.  I love you,  Eva

From Toni

Toni wrote: I'm so sorry for your loss Myrna.  It sounds like you had a wonderful childhood full of fun & laughter with your 'brothers'.  I envy that. Focus on all the good memories...... Love you, Toni

Thanks for Letting Me Know from Raymond Smith

Raymond and Karen Smith wrote: Thank You For letting me know!

I can only remember meeting my cousins Garth and brothers, once. That is the only time I can remember meeting Renee and her husband.

I have a son and his family who have live in Western Colorado for about six years. For seven years they lived in Wichita Kansas with about four years between in Florida. We have gone through Price many times to visit them in Colorado and a few times when they were in Kansas.
I think I still have family in the area but I don't know for sure and I don't their names. I often think about them and think about you growing up in that area and wonder where you lived.
You came to visit is many times but we never went here to visit you. That I remember.
My son is being transferred to Denver so I wont be going that direction very much any more.

I worked with a man that moved here from Price. Lowell Hansen, who said his best friends in Price were my cousins. He know them better than I did.
                                 Ray Smith

Myrna wrote: You did come to visit us a few times. Your folks came when we needed them for priesthood blessings and other important family matters. Garth and Alyce Childs lived in Huntington. They have a son in St. George, a son in Washington state, a daughter in Arizona and a daughter in Huntington. She (Kate) and her husband, David Bird live just through the block from Garth and Alyce. Cousin Richard is buried in Ferron Cemetery. His wife is remarried. They have a son in Price and one in Cedar City and a daughter in Ferron. Cousin David lives in Washington State and is married but only has step-children.

Yes, Lowell would know them. He knew my father as well.

We have a daughter, Kirsten Waite, who lives in Colorado Springs.

We are sorry

Dearest Myrna,   We are so sorry about Garth.  I knew he has had some issues with the cancer for sometime.  I had assumed he had some success with his treatment!  Dad told me of his illness sometime ago and that his wife had breast cancer as well.   Where does his wife and family live at this time?  If you have further details of where  I can send flowers or a card please let me know.  You are so close I see this now.  Know that we send our sincere sympathy to you at this time.  Often wondered if David continued living in their home in Emery County?   We would stop at their place sometimes when going camping or fishing and visit.   I remember Garth to be older and Richard my age.  Remember Dad always close to Renee and Max, even after Max was in the nursing home he would still go visit him.  What is David doing by now?  Tell me of their families.  Your loving sister,   Charlotte and Wally

Running out of Creativity

I'm running out of creative juices! I cannot think of any interesting title to put for this particular email. Bah.

The weeks just keep flying by. I am amazed by time in general here on my mission. Days pass by like hours, weeks like days, and months like weeks. Argh! Everything is always so fast and so wild, but I guess that life is just that way in general. I guess that I better just get used to it now so that when real life smacks me in the face after my mission, I can handle it. Take it standing. Keep calm. Carry on. :)

This week my companion and I learned some amazing lessons together and when we were working on divisions with our District Leader. We were working really hard this week in order to get to our goal of getting at least 5 families with 1 time at church, a baptismal date, and the message of the Restoration and we were able to see a change in how we were working and how our investigators were progressing. We both recognized that our success was going to be hindered if we did not start trying to get people progressing as our mission standards dictate. I was so happy to see that we were finding different kinds of families and that we were able to have quite marvellous experiences in our lessons. I also noticed that my companion and I have been growing closer together, that we have been teaching in unison more and that we have been happier in general.

We also did divisions this week and I was able to go out with Elder Silva, my district leader's companion. He and I get along really well and we have a lot of fun/work hard together. He is from Costa Rica, and I have some strange affinity for Costa Ricans. Love them. Anyway, he and I went around teaching so many people in his area. We were literally running all over the place looking for some families, trying to find out where others had disappeared to, etc. Finally at night we went and taught this really cool couple that he and his companion had contacted the previous morning. We got there and taught an amazing lesson about the Restoration! It was one of the most amazing lessons I have taught on my mission. The flow was near perfect, the people were listening, they wanted to know the truth, they asked questions and understood the answers. I was just so excited. It meets the journal entry requirements. Haha. 

The work here is progressing, like the families that I am teaching. ;) I am impressed by the minor, but significant, successes that I am having. There is always opposition, so not all of these things were not met without trials, but I would much rather have a few measly problems that pass by and witness miracles than not. Right?

Side note, I am now teaching SO much better in Miskitu (or Miskito to a non-Miskitu tongue). People understand me better and I am able to understand them better than I was before. Blessings. Wow. I remembered this week that when my mission call was on its way I prayed that I would be able to go to a place where I would be forced to learn a language and be humbled. It took me sooo long to realize that was fulfilled! The Lord knows what we want, our real desires, and helps to fulfill them according to our faithfulness and the real necessity of such a desire.

I love you all so much and I love my opportunity to serve here in this place at this time. LOVE IT.

Love,
Elder B