To Sister Andersson From Leonard

Dear Sister Andersson:

                        Happy Birthday!

I want to take this time to wish you a very happy birthday. By the time you get this letter, it will be over with but I want you to know that I am wishing you not only a happy birthday, but also, a prosperous year to come.

This morning we had a lesson in church  about missionary work. I could not be grateful enough for the opportunity I had to serve in Denmark and meet people as yourself and your family. I will, forever, be indebted to your spirituality and your kindness, not to just Durfee and me, but all the missionaries that you and your family have helped.

I hope all is going well and that your family is doing fine. We are doing okay. We will be getting our twenty first grand child this next March. I t is going to be a little girl. I am not sure I like knowing what I am going to get. It was always fun to see the surprize on people's faces when it was announc3d what gender the child was. Now we get a phone call.

Myrna and I are still working at the temple on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons. We used to work on Friday afternoons until I started to teach again. I only teach ing in the morning for three hours and then I have a preparation period. We have to be at the temple on Friday by 2:00 pm and we work till about 9:30. ON Saturdays we work from 8:30 till about 5:30. Just a month ago they call ed me to be the Coordinator over our shift. That means that I have to do all the schedualing of the brotheren and the various parts they will do. I have to assign people to the baptisry and the initiatory areas. This calling will last for about two years.

Myrna is teaching in the primary and I am the stake second counselor, over scouting. I have been involved with scouting, this time, for about seventeen years. This is my last year in teaching school. There are too many thing I want to do before it is too late. Myrna is still writing for the news paper and tending grand children every Wednesday and Thursday. Hoefully, this summer will bring to end some of the work.

I recieved an EMail from Elsa and in it she sent an item about how we need to take time to enjoy others. I am converted to that fact. We took a little trip with Todd, oursecond son, his family and Myrn's dad. Then we took her dad to Boston, for just over a week. That is where Melanie, our oldest daughter and family, lives. We had a good time each time. Kirsten is still in Texas and will be there for a couple more years. Her husband is in dental school. I wish he would hurry I need a filling. Just kidding.