FROM MISSIONARY TO A TEXAS FARMER'S WIFE!

So happy to be reporting on Mother's Day.  It was a beautiful day at Church.   We invited the Elder's over for dinner and also Sister Christensen, who is the Mission Nurse.  I made lasagne, french bread, salad and cheesecake.   We sent the left overs home with the Elders.   We let the Elder's skype their families on our lap tops.  
We went to Adam ondi-Ahman for the 2nd time with the Independence 3rd Ward.   The Ward the Mission President assigned us to. We also went to Far West. It was amazing even the 2nd time around.   I hope all our children can get out here while we are serving so we can take them to all these sights.   So inspiring!!!  We are so thrilled to be here!    We are seeing that there are many who have strayed from the Church....it's sad to see their living conditions.    We now how their lives would improve if they would return to activity.  The last 3 weeks we have been going out everyday to visit these folks.
We taught our first SS class today.   We teach ages 12-18.   We felt the class went quite well.   I was YW President 36 years ago.  It was great to be with the Youth.  We had 6 in the class.   There are 36 on record.  Looks like Elder Tefteller and I have our work cut out for us.   My goal is to bring class attendance up to 100%!!!!   Piece of cake.   We have 17 months!!
I love this Gospel and am so happy to be serving where an important part of Church History happened.   It has definitely strengthened my testimony!!!  I love the Prophet Smith.   I know he was foreordained in the Pre-existence to be the Prophet to help restore Christ's true Gospel here on earth and I know He under direction of the Spirit and the tools given him, translated the Book of Mormon.
Our friend Tia passed away yesterday, Saturday morning.   We were so glad we went to visit her on Thursday.   We took her a red rose.   She talked to us, and she asked Glenn for a head massage.  He had given her one on our earlier visits.   She told us she was at peace and was ready to die.   She was happy that she would be reunited with her father, who had passed away 6 years earlier.   She was the sweetest person!  We are glad that just 3 weeks earlier the Bishop asked us to go visit her.   We are so grateful he did.  They are having a memorial service for her Wednesday morning at 10.  They said that there will literally be hundreds of family there.   Her brother and his family flew in from Hawaii early this morning.  I love the Polynesian people.