Message 27 May 2012

Message—27 May 2012

Dear Family & Friends,

Monday we spent most of our time preparing for the four zone conferences held during the week.  The zone conferences were held on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.  They were all held at the Sacred Grove and in the basement of the Hill Cumorah Visitors Center.  Each day we met at the parking lot for the Sacred Grove at 9am.  Many of the missionaries come early so they can visit with each other as well as some like to spend time on their own in the Sacred Grove.  Therefore we had to arrive early enough so we could get the information I needed from the missionaries about their vehicles.  I directed the missionaries to park in the bus parking area where I could do the vehicle inspections; while Sister Jensen asked the missionaries the questions for which I needed answers about their vehicles.  After all the missionaries arrived with their cars I and Sister Jensen  began doing the inspections of the vehicles.  She served as my recorder of information and I checked the vehicles; while she checked to vehicle pouch information in the glove box.  On three of the four days I had the help of Elder and Sister Ellis and on two of the days I had the help of Elder Servoss; they were very helpful.  We only had about an hour and half to do the inspections so we could be finished by the time the missionaries were finished in the Grove so they could drive their vehicles to the Hill Cumorah for the rest of the training to be given.  After we finished with the vehicles we attended the rest of the training given until the zone conferences ended about 4 pm each day.  I prepared and provided about 20 minutes of training about vehicle safety and caring for the vehicles in each meeting.

We were blessed to have Elder Kevin R. Duncan attend the zone conferences on Friday and Saturday and provide some instruction for about an hour both days.  He had been doing a mission tour in a nearby mission and since his two daughters were on school vacation for the long weekend he had arranged for them to meet he and his wife at the church history sites so they could spend some time together there before returning home on Monday.  Elder Duncan is a great teacher and provided some very helpful instruction to help the missionaries be more effective in helping to bring about real growth in the church.

The lunches for three of the days were provided by the Stake Relief Societies for the stake in which the zone was located.  These sisters brought the food from their areas to the Hill Cumorah and fed the missionaries and then cleaned up and returned home.  On Saturday Sister Jensen and Sister Servoss provided the food for the lunch; they did a great job.  Sister Jensen also provided the afternoon snacks during the 15 minute break on three of the days, Sister Servoss also helped on the last day.

The zone leaders in each zone provided some instruction relating to Chapter 5 in PMG on the Book of Mormon.  This was done to initiate the reading, pondering, and praying about the Book of Mormon as a mission.  Beginning today, Sunday, all the missionaries, including us senior couples, will begin reading 5 pages every day from the Book of Mormon as companion study time.  We will all read the same 5 pages together on the same day.  One main objective is to help bring an increased unity to the mission as well as to each companionship.  In addition, this will strengthen our focus on teaching the great value of the Book of Mormon in helping investigators gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon and the restoration of the gospel.  When we read the Book of Mormon together last year as a mission, many missionary miracles happened; we hope and pray the same will happen again this year.

President Christianson taught us about “…establishing the church and bringing about real growth…”.  This is information provided by the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve.  It was given to President Christianson and all the other mission presidents in our area in an April Mission Presidents Seminar; and was taught to them by Elder Jay Jensen.  The beginning principle of the instruction is Doctrine & Covenants Section 107:33-34 which teaches that the First Presidency and Quorum of Twelve have the major responsibility to “…build up the church…”.  The Seventy are to “…act…under the direction of the Twelve…in building up the church…”.  By extension to us, we are to assist in “…building up the church…” under the direction of our priesthood leaders.  The concept of real growth is to help members and converts remain true and faithful to their covenants, enduring to the end, and helping to “…build up the church…”  The church is growing in numbers every year; but there is not a corresponding increase in sacrament meeting attendance and other measures which indicate faithfully enduring to the end of our lives.  In relation to this topic, Elder Duncan taught the two zones he attended how to help bring about real growth by helping members learn how to become more involved in participating in finding, teaching, and retaining investigators.  He had the missionaries participate in describing the “perfect” investigator teaching situation.  The end result was that the investigators were a family; the teaching was to be done by the missionaries in the home of the investigator, with the presence of a member family who were returning to activity in the church after being inactive for a time.  If you think about it for a few minutes you can see the wisdom in this.  The unseen part of this is that the Bishop and the ward council were involved with the missionaries in determining who the family should be, who is returning to activity.  Following each teaching meeting a report should come back to the ward council on how the teaching went and decisions and assignments were made to help both families continue to make progress and bring about real growth in their lives.  This same process is repeated with every investigator family, or individual.  The members of the church, both active and inactive, should become a part of this process, and gather in the non-members and help each other remain faithful to the end.

Friday evening after zone conference we attended a YSA “Gathering in the Grove” fireside which was actually held in the Palmyra Stake Center which is about one fourth mile from the Sacred Grove.  The Speaker was President Christianson; he spoke on the topic of the influence of music in our lives and our choices.  He has written a few books on the topic and was very effective in reaching the YSA to help them see how music can influence their lives in coming to Christ or being led away from Christ.  The concluding event for this YSA weekend activity is a fireside Sunday evening, tonight, at which Alex Boye, of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, will speak and sing.  President Christianson is very good friends with Alex; and he had invited him to the Friday evening fireside along with Alex’s piano accompanist.  President Christianson had him sing a musical number Alex had written with a very spiritual message; it had a very positive and strong effect on the YSA audience to illustrate the power of good music.

This morning we had previously been invited to speak at the sacrament meeting in Warsaw; which is about 15 miles from the Geneseo ward building.  We spoke on the topic of renewing baptism and temple covenants.  Sister Jensen did very well with her talk; but she left me more time than I needed; but the Spirit was there and did some good teaching and we had a very good meeting.  We returned to our Geneseo ward in time to attend our priesthood and Relief Society meetings.  This evening we are going to attend the Alex Boye fireside.

It has been a great week, with long days and short nights; but with great spiritual experiences along the way.  We are so very blessed to be here in this mission and to have the great opportunity to be in special places where the events of the restoration began.  We know Heavenly Father lives, Jesus Christ is His Only Begotten Son, and is the Savior and Redeemer of all of us.  Joseph Smith is the prophet of the restoration; and President Monson is his ordained successor and holds all the same keys the Prophet Joseph held.  We have living apostles and prophets to lead us in all we should do to become worthy of living with Heavenly Father and His Son.  We have a certain witness that the Book of Mormon is true and will bless our lives as we read it and pray to know and understand what it teaches; and follow those teachings in our daily lives.

We extend our love and best wishes to each of the following on their birthdays this month.  Our daughter Jana on June 3^rd, Shalee on June 5^th, Brandon on June 13^th, Bailey on June 20^th, and Robyn and Braxton on June 28^th, and we also wish Kamri a happy first birthday, we think on June 28^th but we might be wrong on the day.  We hope you each have a wonderful day and a great year ahead.

Most all of the farmers here in NY have their crops planted and growing; they are now praying for rain to water them so they will grow.  There is very little irrigation here in NY, so almost all of the farmers are totally dependent on the Lord for bringing rain for their crops.

May you each be blessed with all the blessings and help you need to guide, protect, and sustain you in all your needs.  We love each of you, and pray for you in your individual needs.

Love,

Mom & Dad, Grandma & Grandpa, Richard & Maxine

Message 20 May 2012

Message—20 May 2012

Dear Family & Friends,

There was more than plenty to do this past week.  We did accomplish many of the things we had to do, but some things are still left to do this week.  Sister Jensen helped with a number of projects in the office, and also caught up on her own projects.  We had a few missionary transfers the first of the week on account of the decision was made to have Elder Bowman return home to take care of getting his diabetes under control.  There were only 4 or 5 companionships affected by these transfers.  Elder and Sister Ellis were assigned to find a few additional apartments; one for two Elders who needed to move out of the apartment they have been living in; and a couple of new ones for senior couples who will be arriving in the mission soon.  They are doing a great job with the apartment issues since they took over what our assignment was last year.

I spent most of my time during the week getting some vehicles ready to be sold.  Some needed mechanical work done on them; and a few needed to still have a good interior cleaning done on them.  By Friday I finally got 3 of the 4 ready to sell.  I have one more to get ready this week; it has been in use for the last week or so by a Senior couple who had major repair expenses needed on the vehicle in which they drove to the mission.  Instead of fixing the old car they came in, they decided to buy a newer vehicle; so they will return the mission vehicle on Monday.  I also worked on some things related to getting ready for zone conferences to be held this coming week.  Our internet access was unavailable Thursday afternoon and Friday; so we learned how dependent we are on internet access; it is a major part of allowing us to do our office work.

The zone conferences this week will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and Saturday.  They will begin at 9am in the Sacred Grove; and after two hours there we will move to the basement of the Hill Cumorah Visitors Center for the rest of the time until 4pm.  During the morning I will have to try and get the vehicles all inspected quick enough so the missionaries can drive from the Grove to the Hill for the rest of the meeting.

Wednesday evening we attended the Site Training meeting at the Hill Cumorah.  Sister Chatterton and Sister Hatch did some training and provided some examples of how to naturally include teaching and testifying of Christ in the tours that are given by the missionaries.  Thursday evening we did not have Institute so we were able to stay at home and rest a bit.  Friday evening right after we left the office we went to the Apple Computer Store in the Eastview Mall and attended a workshop on how to make better use of our I-Pad’s and I-Phone’s; it was a very helpful training for us.

Saturday we did the needed “home work”, washing, cleaning, and etc.  Then we drove to Romulus NY which is about 6 miles south of the Peter Whitmer Home in Fayette.  There a number of Amish families who live in the area around Romulus.  We used the video camera to take some video clips of what we saw.  We saw the Seneca Lake which is the eastern boundary of our mission; there is also a church owned camp site at the North end of Seneca Lake; similar to MIA Shalom in Utah; except it is only at an elevation of about 500 feet.  We saw several Amish farmers out working their land getting ready to plant and planting with horse drawn farm equipment.  It brought back some memories of our youth for both of us.  These Amish usually have either Belgian horses or Mules.  The ones we saw were all Belgians; except for two of the farmers were also using one of their buggy pulling horses along with the Belgian’s.  They do this to allow the better trained Belgian’s to teach the younger horses how to calm down and work and not be so jumpy and flighty.  There is a great lesson in this example; we youth can learn from those who are older and more steady and experienced.  On our way back home we stopped at the Peter Whitmer Farm and I took some video segments of the visitor’s center there and also the log home.  I was all alone in the log home taking the video shots; it was a great experience to be in this sacred place all by myself.  Sister Jensen was wore out and chose to stay in the visitor’s center and visit with Sister Jeff’s from Castle Dale UT.  I visited with Elder Jeff’s for a few minutes.  He told me he has become friends with an Amish farmer in Romulus who has helped him with cutting some leather to use to braid 8 sets of bridles and reigns.  The Amis fellow has also made a set of harnesses for Elder Jeff’s.  Elder Jeff’s has also negotiated with an Amish farmer in Indiana to get a set of Belgian horses for his ranch in Castle Dale.  The Jeff’s will return home from their mission in September.

Today we attended church in Geneseo and had very good instruction in all the meetings.  I was asked to help pass the sacrament due to a shortage of Aaronic Priesthood youth.  This was a nice experience and reminded me of the opportunities to help with the Sacrament in my youth.  After the meetings, we drove to Leicester NY and visited with the Boyd Family, who are members of the Geneseo Ward, but they do not attend meetings; they still live the rest of the gospel principles.  They used to operate a small dairy farm in the Bliss NY area, by Arcade.  He sold the farm there and the cows and most of his farm equipment and bought a smaller, 34 acre, farm in Leicester.  We had a good visit with them and learned about their family and their church service in previous years.  We also talked a lot about farming and lessons to learn from working on them.  He told us about a variety of sweet corn, named “Got to Have it”; which he said is even sweeter and has larger kernels than the milk and honey kind we grow at home.  We are going to try and find some of this variety when we get home and grow some.

We are looking forward to being at the zone conferences this week and serving there and learning from the instruction we might get to hear.  We are so greatly blessed to be in this mission and experience first-hand the places where the restoration events began and took place.  We know the gospel is true, the church is really the Church of Jesus Christ, and it is perfectly true.  We should not allow negative things about the people in the church keep us from receiving the blessings of living the gospel.  The gospel doctrine and ordinances are the only way to become qualified to live for eternity with Heavenly Father and the Savior and our ancestors and our own families.

We express our great love for each of you and pray for your well-being and your peace and happiness in living the gospel.

Love,

Mom & Dad, Grandma & Grandpa, Richard & Maxine

Message 13 May 2012

Message—13 May 2012

Dear Family & Friends,

I will begin with expressing love and appreciation for all the MOTHERS!  We are so very grateful for our own mothers who, with our fathers, gave us life; with the mothers doing nearly all the work to get us here.  Our mothers are both wonderful women with testimonies of the gospel and patience and persistence to teach those gospel principles to us by word and especially by example.  We are who we are primarily through the love, nurturing, teaching, and guidance given to us in learning to use our agency to choose to do what is in harmony with the gospel and its doctrines and ordinances and covenants.  We are also grateful to the mothers of our grandchildren for all they have done and continue to do to be good mothers.  We also appreciate the many other good mothers who have been a good influence in our lives in many ways.  I am particularly thankful and indebted to my wonderful wife for being the mother of our own eight children; and the grandmother of our now 28 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren.  Maxine has been a powerful and kind and patient help meet and a great support to me in all the years we have been together.  In today’s vernacular she is awesome, and I love her dearly and eternally.  We hope all the mothers have a wonderful day today and every day.

Sister Jensen had a very demanding week.  She helped prepare food for a number of training meetings during the week.  Thursday evening we had a meeting with all of the MLS Senior Missionary Couples in the home of President and Sister Christianson.  Sister Jensen helped with that meal as well. There were 10 couples plus the President and his wife who attended.  We had a good dinner followed by some training given by President Christianson.  He taught us some principles on how to help establish the church in our areas and help the church grow.  The focus was on helping the members in the wards and branches where we serve to be fully converted and to understand how the church should function and also how to find and accept investigators and help them to understand church procedures and terminology and how to balance the church meetings and activities so it helps families to be strengthened and prepared to receive temple ordinances and blessings.  The training was very helpful.

Saturday we spent several hours at the Hill Cumorah and in the Sacred Grove.  The trees are now mostly in full leaf and the undergrowth is growing well so it makes good pictures.  I mostly did videos of the places we walked; but we also did take a few photos as well.  I have videos of the majority of the so called “witness trees”; meaning these trees were growing at the time Joseph Smith saw the Father and the Son and also Moroni on the Hill.  These places are special and have a peaceful sacred feeling present which brings peace to those who visit them.  Last Sunday evening you may have taken time to listen to the CES Fireside talk by Elder Marlin K. Jensen of the Quorum of the Seventy.  He showed some videos of some of the same trees I videoed; and taught some great lessons using the trees as examples.

Later in the day, on Saturday, we met Elder and Sister Jones in Henrietta and had a Mother’s Day dinner with them at the Longhorn Steak House.  The food was good, but the company was even better.  The Jones’s have done much to help the Warsaw Branch in the time they have been there.  They are good faithful people with experience in the church and testimonies to help others grow.  They will be returning to Utah in August; we hate to see them go; but their circumstances require that they return.  We have become good friends with them.

Last weekend one of our young missionaries, Elder Bowman, spent his time in the hospital.  The President followed promptings of the Spirit and got him to a doctor who did blood sugar levels and sent him immediately to the Emergency Room at just the right time to save his life.  He was starting into a diabetic coma when he arrived at the hospital.  Blood sugar levels are normally in the 80 to 120 range; Elder Bowman’s level was at 595.  When the President called the Missionary Health Dept. to get permission to take him to emergency; he told the nurse there what the blood sugar levels were and he could hear her gasp.  When she spoke again she said get him to the emergency room right now; which he already was.  Those who attended him were able to stabilize him and keep him from having serious problems.  He is now working on trying to learn how to manage diabetes; but he will likely have to return home to get his diabetes under control and learn the dieting habits he will have to learn.  He had to return home last year for knee surgery for several months; before returning here to the mission.  Some missionaries just have tough experiences to deal with as missionaries.  Some of our missionaries have difficult family circumstances at home; and it is just a miracle that they are here serving as missionaries; but they have the faith and are obedient and are doing great things as missionaries.

Today we had great meetings in church.  I was substituting for our Gospel Essentials teacher, who is our Ward Mission Leader.  The lesson was on the gathering of Israel; we had a good discussion and hopefully the class members learned something useful.  After our 3 hour block of meetings, we had a baptism service for Junea Duvall, a 9 year old young man; whom the McVea’s taught and prepared for baptism before they went home.  The family waited until May to do the baptism so his grandparents and other family could attend.  Michael Headley is a grandfather, and the father of Junea’s mother, Anna.  He lives in St George UT. We are going to continue the efforts of the McVea’s to teach the father and try to help him convert himself spiritually; so he can be baptized.  The McVea’s did a short video message which was shown at the baptism service in which they shared some thoughts and also their testimonies.  It was a great service.

Congratulations to Aaron and Bryce who are graduating from high school this month.  We hope they do well completing the requirements to graduate.  Aaron is graduating with a 4.0 and one year early; he has been taking some AP classes.  We are happy that Lynne is recovering from giving birth to Dylan; and that Dylan is doing well, and Shadyn is helping Lynne with Dylan after he gets home from school.  We hope you all have a great month of May and that all those in school complete the requirements for the grades they are in.  We hope Mckinzi continues doing well in her new job; and in taking care of Kamri.  We also hope Jason does well in his new job and enjoys doing the work.  We hope Britt continues to do well in his programs.  We wish Austin and Josie well as Austin begins a new job tomorrow in Ely NV.

We share our witness that Heavenly Father lives, Jesus is the Christ; the Book of Mormon is true and will bless our lives as we read and prayerfully ponder its truths.  Joseph Smith is a prophet and Thomas S. Monson is his ordained successor.  We are so blessed to be serving a mission here in NY; we have great experiences and have had our testimonies strengthened and expanded.

We love and pray for each of you!!

Love,

Mom & Dad, Grandma & Grandpa, Richard & Maxine

Message 6 May 2012

Message—6 May 2012

Dear Family & Friends,

We had some great experiences this past week.  Monday 8 new missionaries arrived in the mission; 6 Elders and 2 Sisters.  Two of the Elders were unexpected surprises; they were sent to our mission while awaiting visas for South American countries.  They were both assigned to work in areas where we have missionaries who teach Spanish speaking people; they were assigned as a “threesome” meaning three missionaries together.  One is Elder Adair, we already have an Elder Adair; they both met each other and decided they were not related.  The other one is Elder Wilson; we already have an Elder Wilson also, we do not yet know if they are related since they have not met each other.  One of the other new missionaries is Elder Olsson from Sweden; he speaks English well but he does have a Swedish accent.  These new missionaries will be great and have good success.  Monday evening we met at the President’s home and provided our new missionary orientation instruction to the new ones.

On Tuesday the missionaries involved in the transfers required to make a place for the new missionaries to serve, met at the Kreag Rd. Chapel.  The President there announced the companions the new missionaries would serve with.  We had mail and other items for many of the missionaries.  I had three new Toyota Corolla’s to assign to three companionships and had to take the three older cars to the mission office so I can start getting them ready to sell.  It was nice to have the transfers on May 1^st so the miles record keeping procedures were much easier.  On Wednesday another new Toyota Corolla was switched with a companionship of Sisters who live within a half mile of the mission office; so it was easy to make that change.

On Wednesday Elder Swanner and Sister Carver completed their mission and returned home.  Elder Swanner had served in Brockport while we lived there and we came to be very close.  He has made great progress and positive changes in his life while he has served as a missionary.  Sister Carver was one of the Site Training Sisters for several months.  Sister Chatterton and Sister Hatch are now the Site Training Sisters.  Elder Larson will return home on May 9^th, a few weeks early, so he will be able to start his college classes on time.

Wednesday evening we attend the Site Training Meeting at the Hill Cumorah Visitors Center.  Sister Chatterton and Sister Hatch shared a new video the Church has made, the title is “God’s Plan”; it is about families being together forever.  It is a very powerful video.  While we were viewing the video several of the young Sister missionaries were very touched by the Spirit.  One Sister just really sobbed for the rest of the meeting.  You have to understand that some of the missionaries who come have some very heart wrenching family messes at home.  This sister is one of those who come from a family life that is far from ideal.  At this point in time the video is only available at church visitor centers; if you get a chance to see it please do it.

Thursday evening we taught the Institute Lesson in the Geneseo Ward; it was on 3 Nephi Chapters 11-14; which is the beginning of the Savior’s appearance to those who were still alive after all the destruction that took place when the Savior was crucified.  Two young ladies in the ward attended; Jill and Caitlin.  They are both finishing their college classes this coming week and taking finals and graduating.  Our discussion was great and the Spirit was there to help us learn together.  The Elders assigned to the ward came late and also participated in the lesson.  One of things we did was compared the differences in wording between the accounts of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew and the equivalent Sermon given at the temple in the land Bountiful among the Nephites and Lamanites.  If you have not done this before it is a great teaching and learning experience.

Sister Jensen was busy every day this week helping Sister Servoss and Sister Christianson with meals and snacks for the new missionaries on Monday, on Tuesday they fixed dinner for the missionaries going home.  Wednesday they had a day off of fixing food.  Thursday she helped with the snacks for the training of the new missionaries and their companions.  On Friday she helped with the food for the Zone Leader Council meeting which was from to 9am-4pm.  They fixed snacks and lunch for those attending.  I kept busy all week with issues related to the new car switches, and other repairs needed and getting the monthly car reports collected and processed.

Friday evening we drove to Warsaw for a baptism of Bert, who Elder and Sister Jones, a senior missionary couple serving there, had taught and helped prepare for baptism.  It was a great baptism service.  The Jones’s have made a great contribution to the Warsaw ward while they have been here.  The first counselor in the Branch Presidency, Art Crater; told me the Jones’s had helped find and account for over 30 branch members.  They either found the people or found where they had moved to and helped the clerk update the membership records.

Saturday we had a P-Day and did things around the house that needed to be done and did some shopping.  I helped Elder Servoss build a hand rail going up the stairs into his attic.  On Monday May 14^th the senior couples, including the Site Couples, are coming to the Servoss’s for a FHE.  He and I will coordinate to take the couples in small groups to see the baptism site of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and other early Mendon Saints; the Tomlinson Inn, and the Boughton Hill Cemetery; and the John Young Home here where we live.

Sunday, today, we had a great Fast & Testimony meeting.  One young man, about 7 years old, shared a very powerful message and testimony.  It was short, but very powerful.  He said he had learned that following the Savior is like a river.  If we stay in the calm water where it is safe and we can see the Savior on the shore, we will be blessed and helped to do what is right.  If we get out in the swift water it is like being in Satan’s area and we will be carried away from the Savior.  That just about sums up Heavenly Father’s plan for us doesn’t it.  I am continually amazed at the spiritual perception of our youth.  Jill and Caitlin both shared their testimonies; they were both converted last year while attending Geneseo College.  Jill shared her experience for a class she is taking in which she had to make a piece of jewelry, she chose to make a ring for her boyfriend who is coming to see her this week and propose marriage to her.  She had made what she thought was a serious mistake and was about to give up and risk failing the class.  Then she decided to pray for help, which she said she have done earlier; thinking that Heavenly Father was so busy with all the hard problems of everyone else that he may not have time to help her.  She used her faith and prayed for help with fixing the ring.  After praying for help the inspiration came to her to make a matching piece like she thought she had ruined so they both looked the same.  Heavenly Father helped her do this right; and so the ring turned out beautiful and unique.  She says I relearned that prayers are answered even if they seem to be for a small thing.  She also said it reminded her that the atonement can fix any mistake we make if we repent and change our attitude and do our best to do what is right.

This evening we are going to watch the CES Fireside here at our place with Elder and Sister Servos and Sister Crook and Sister Jones (one of the new sister missionaries who came this week).  Elder Marlin K. Jensen is the speaker, and he has some video clips he will use that were taken at the historic sites last month.  Some of our missionaries will be included in the video clips.

We very much appreciate all who are helping take care of our home and yard for us.  We know it is not convenient for you to do things for us, but you will be blessed in many ways as you serve us.  We were very pleased and delighted to learn that Britt had completed his GED requirements this past week, congratulations; and keep doing the good things you have been doing.  We are very grateful that Lynne was able to give birth to Dylan Joseph Watkins, our last grandchild, number 28, on May 3^rd, also Megan’s birthday.  All went well and we hope Lynne will regain her strength soon; and that Dylan will continue to grow and develop and become the person Heavenly Father sent him to the earth to become.  We are also happy that Olivia’s surgery went well last Tuesday; we hope she will continue to recover and do well.  We love you all and pray for you by name, and for your specific needs each day.  May you all be blessed with the help Heavenly Father knows you need to enable you to do all you are required to do.

We love you,

Mom & Dad, Grandma & Grandpa, Richard & Maxine