Happy 20th Birthday Van!

 

School Pics. & Updates

Clark 9th Grade

Jane 6th Grade 

Mom an aide

Hanna went to AZ for UPS driver training and passed.

Walt is getting ready to leave.

Van hit 8 months.

Uncle Jeff, Hanna & Max

Silly p-day calls with Van.

Fun AI 80's pic of me.

More AI fun. 

We hit our 25th year wedding anniversary.

Finn and Auntie Jane

Van hit 6 Months!

 

Van, his companion and the ZL's got to go on an African Safari!

We're so proud of him, but miss him a ton!

July Misc.

Clark made a fancy breakfast. 

Free food at Chick-fil-A

First gym day for Clark. 

He ended up benching 100lbs.

Beckam has been out a year.

I'm so proud of these boys.

June Misc.

Walt's drawing in art class.

He is Grandma Susan's giraffe.

While me, Danny, Walt and Clark did baptism's, 

Jane spent time on the temple grounds.

Van got money for the taxi from the mission. 

Service Day

We love p-day's

Clark is working at the pool snack bar this summer.

Van 4 Months on Mission

Van has been on his mission for 4 months now. He is doing well. Van is now the senior companion, he is still in Mdantsane, but has a new companion, Elder Lunga from Free State South Africa. If you read his email, but missed my stories he has extra money on his personal debit card, no need to worry about him. Besides his typical complaining he had such a great spiritual message in his email this week I just have to share…

Spiritual thought today i just want to talk about faith and why you shouldn’t just believe but to act on faith as well. And i want to share this verse and how Nephi acted on his faith.

1 Nephi 3:7

And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.”_

Nephi says “I will go and DO” -Not “I’ll think about it” or “I’ll pray for a sign first.” He commits to action before he knows how it’ll work.

Faith isn’t knowing the whole path. It’s taking the next step because you trust the One who gave the command.

*Elder Richard G. Scott* said about this verse: _“We are acting on faith when we pray and then respond to impressions the Lord places in our minds… We are acting on faith when we obey His commandments, even when we do not fully understand the reasons for them.”_

So just remember to always act on your faith and the lord will bless you and I can totally say the lord has already blessed me in so many ways by just me doing what the lord has asked of me to do.

He has dinner at these members home often.

Him and his companion had a couple hard weeks.

His companion was hit in his neck with a football and hurt his 

vocal cords pretty badly, he even lost his voice. 

Then Van hurt his ankle pretty badly, thankfully the 

senior missionaries had a boot he could borrow.

Then his companion got a really bad fungus on his scalp.

Then they both got covid or some really bad flu.

The senior missionaries brought over soup, I'm grateful for them.

Van's new companion Elder Lunga.