Hello All -
We received a great phone call the other day from a guy
Tal works with for his job. He recently moved to Idaho and Tal hadn't heard
from him a while.
He texted Tal a picture of him with the Elders in his
ward. Guess who one of his Elder's is? Tal loves that our son has run into
several people who know who his dad is. (Famous in song and tale, he alleges!)
He is doing well and is really happy with his new companion - a white kid from
Zimbabwe with a "sic" accent.
Love -Julianne
-----Original Message-----
From: Taylor Ehlers [mailto:taylor.ehlers@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 5:35 PM
Subject: I would have to say asphinctersayswhat?
Life is good! We had a baptism a couple of weeks ago. We
baptized this joe by the name of XX. He's led a rough life with many ups and
downs but this is a guy who's got a real testimony. He doesn't know much about
the actual gospel, church history, priesthood organization, or green jello BUT
he recognizes the hand of God in his life. His temporal knowledge is limited
but his spiritual knowledge is super intense. One thing I love about him and
his family is they keep a really clean house - no beer cans, dog leftovers, tv
dinner packages, used paper plates, broken toys, or the like to be found
ANYWHERE. A clean house is something I've come to appreciate after all the
homes we've been in. His truck is broken but he either walks or bikes the 2
mile distance to church every sunday.
This week on Thursday we've got another baptism.
Something I gotta say about baptismal candidates is they've got such an awesome
spirit about them. After they know it's true, they stop questioning things.
It's a lot of responsibility on our shoulders so we've careful not to feed them
any "false doctrine" - like caffeine being against the word of wisdom
and the Book of Mormon's authenticity was validated by Joseph Smith taking the
actual gold plates to the local egyptologist to verify the ancient
reformed-Egyptian characters. But there's something to be said about a totally
devout coffee-worshiper who will quit on a dime because it's what she has to do
to get dunked. The baptism coming up is a young single mother named XXX. She's
got an 18 month old baby girl and she's ready. She's been coming to church and
she's already more or less a part of the ward.
The members here are pretty die hard too. We have a
general sense of support and everyone we ask for help is ready and willing to
assist.
We cover four wards, which isn't bad but I prefer
covering three. It tends to complicate things on sundays when three wards go to
one building and one ward goes to another. I like being able to see everyone in
one day. One to mention is dude by the name of Merrot. He told me his
profession is emergency response and I told him that's what my dad does - the
emergency response king for Uintah county. Then he asked me who my dad was and
when I answered he said "I KNOW TAL!"
And so it was super cool to see someone who's seen my dad
more recently than I have! And then he has a training this week in Salt Lake
where he said he'll see dad anyway. Small world!
tay
