Cooper, Kerry & Jamee

Dear Family and Friends, It's been another busy week.  For our P-Day we decided to drive to an area we hadn't visited before.  It is so pretty right now.  All the leaves are out and there are wildflowers everywhere. We will post some pictures. We didn't have our Family Home Evening this week because our good friend Brian Flanagan was not feeling well. Since we have FHE at their house, we postponed for a week.  We miss it when we don't have FHE each Monday. That is our chance to sit down with our branch friends in a little more casual atmosphere to study the Come Follow Me lessons and visit with each other. We should have it tomorrow and I am the teacher this week. We had our annual branch hot dog roast on Friday so we spent most of Tuesday delivering invitations to those we don't see too often. None of them is likely to come, but it's nice to see them and let them know we are still thinking of them.  We also had some birthday cards and candy bars to deliver. I h...

Another busy week. Monday, after FHE, we got a call that a member's son had just died. He was the brother of the autistic young man that was baptized a couple of months ago. This young man was severely autistic and he had kidney and liver disease. He had been on dialysis for several months.  It was  a tender mercy that the sister missionaries felt like they needed to go visit the family after FHE and got their just a few minutes after he died.  They were able to give her comfort and visit with her until the mortuary came to pick him up.  Tuesday (or maybe Wednesday, we lose track of days) the branch president called and asked if we would go over with him and talk to the mother and help plan the funeral. I was asked to dedicate the grave and Mom was asked to give a talk on the atonement and resurrection.  The funeral was set for Saturday in a city about two hours away from us and the interment was in a cemetery about twenty plus minutes away from the mortuary....

Dear Family and Friends, We had a pretty busy week. We spent pretty much the whole day on Tuesday at the Institute building this week.  They had the institute and seminary teachers and administrators from all of the northeast area in for training this last week.  There were more than 40 attendees.  We didn't have to cook anything, but we kept the snack food stocked and organized during the day.  They tried to keep lunch on a West Virginia theme so they had hot dogs, pepperoni rolls, Mountain Dew (yes, they drink a lot of Mountain Dew here) along with veggies and snacks.  We had some down time while they took everyone on a tour of parts of Morgantown. That evening's meal was catered so we didn't do too much until clean up time.  We got there about 11:00 a.m. and headed for home at about 7:00 p.m. That tired us old folks.   As we mentioned last week, we got sister missionaries in Oakland.  These two sisters got more done this past week than all...

Dear Family and Friends. I hope this makes it to all of you, we are having trouble with our yahoo account that we normally use, so we are trying gmail tonight. We also apologize for not sending a letter out last week. We were sitting in an airport last Sunday and didn't have a laptop to use. When we got home on Monday afternoon we had an assignment to find a place to live for a new set of sister missionaries coming to serve in Oakland, then we just lost track of time. We'll catch up tonight. We had a busy week two weeks ago.  We started with our weekly trip to Morgantown to feed the Young Single Adults.We had a sandwich bar for them. It wasn't a real good turnout, but those that came really enjoyed it. We drove back to Oakland Tuesday night then got up Wednesday and went back past Morgantown on our way to the airport in Pittsburgh to fly to Lora's graduation in Bismarck, North Dakota. Lora was at the airport to greet us and it was really good to see her again.  As most ...