October Newsletter Entry

I felt bad after reminding everyone last night at the talent show to write their monthly newsletter knowing that I had not written mine either. So I guess I had better write something before any grass grows under me. We send our congratulations and love to Denise and Jonathan on their new little Elizabeth. After a very rocky start to life, we were glad to hear last night that she would be coming home soon. We took our whole family to the park and Sarah took pictures of everyone. It doesn’t seem that long ago when we did the same thing up the canyon in the fall amongst all the fall colors. But wow, have they all grown up in last 4 years. Bethany is now taller than Laralyn, Macall has almost passed up Bethany and Austin has passed up them all, and will probably soon be taller than me. Of course they all passed up their mom a long time ago. Soon she will be the shortest one in the family. But of course that is only in height. She has us all beat in spiritual height. The other day, our home teacher, who was recently called as our Bishop, Bishop Dave Davis, came over to home teach us. He took a moment to complement and thank Laurie for a very impactful visit she had recently made to a past member of our ward, Donna. He had recently gone to visit her and she commented to him about Laurie’s visit to her a few days earlier. Although our ward recently spent thousands of hours helping her move, she has been very bitter about some things, both towards the church (she is a recent convert), and the ward members. She was expressing her regrets for the way she had been so awful towards Laurie during her visit to her, and yet Laurie responded in a very Christ like loving way, and because of her response to her awfulness her heart was touched and she realized how unkind she had been and what Christianity is all about. The Bishop took the time to thank Laurie for her kindness towards Donna. Now Laurie isn’t going to like that I wrote this in the newsletter, but oh well, call it payback for the Donna story she wrote about me a couple months ago. We look forward to the upcoming holidays and wish you all a wonderful October.
Love Darrell, Laurie and the kids.