Oma's Pages #3, July 30, 2011

Oma’s Pages #3

We moved to West Point into a very small house. It looked like this was going to be a very hard thing for us because we came from a very big house. But Richard starting making movies in our big backyard. All the children invited their friends over to have grand adventures in the old buildings that were in our backyard. 

All of children learned how to work because we did not have a dishwasher, or anything that would make our work be easier. Our stove was so old that the door did not stay shut when we were baking things. So when we wanted to bake cookies we had to set the timer and then each child had to take a turn holding the door shut for two minutes. That sounds like a very short time but if you are standing there holding a door shut it feels like it is forever.

Everybody had to do jobs because there was so much work to do for us to live there.

I did not think we would ever be able to go on a mission because our life was so much work and we did not have very much money and we had a lot of children. I planted a big garden to help us have enough food to eat.

Opa just kept praying about the day when we could go on a mission.

What do you think happened next?

Ask your Mom or Dad to tell you some of the stories about when we lived in the little old house.

Oma's Pages #2

Oma’s Pages #2

MTC stands for Missionary Training Center

All of my life I wanted to go on a mission. When I was young I thought for sure I would go on a mission before I got married. Then I met Opa and we got married long before I could go on a mission. 

When Opa and I got married we talked about going on a mission when all of our children were grown up. We did not know we would have so many children and that it would take so long for them to all grow up. I wondered if we would ever be able to go on mission.

Opa just kept praying about the day we could go on a mission. 

Then we had so many problems because we did not have enough money for a mission. You have to have enough money saved up to pay for your mission so I thought now we would not be able to go on a mission.

Opa just kept praying about the day we could go on a mission.

What do you think happened next?

Oma's Pages #1 July 25, 2011

Oma’s Pages

Oma’s Pages #1

Hi Everybody, It’s me, Oma!

Ever since I knew I was coming on a mission I wanted to share this mission and all of the great experiences with all of you.

The problem was that I did not know how to do that.

First I thought that I would write a letter to a different person each day. That way everybody would get a letter once a month.

That did not work out. We had so many things to do when we arrived at the MTC that there was no time to write individual letters. And I hardly had time to write in my journal (which I have to do). So I did not write to a different person every day.

I was so sad thinking about what I could do.

What do you think happened next?

Do you know what MTC stands for?