Our Amy is home!

 We got to fly home to be at the Salt Lake City Airport when our youngest daughter, Amy, flew home from serving a mission in the California, Ventura Mission.  She learned to speak and teach in the Spanish language.  It was a thrill to welcome her home and have all 6 of our kids together again.  We also have 3 in law kids and 6 grandkids.  We had several days full of wonderful activities and meals together.  It's been a grand weekend.

We headed back Monday to complete the last 6 weeks of our mission in the California Oakland/San Francisco Mission.  Stay Tuned!

Love, Elder and Sister Jerman  

Cool connections

 Hello everyone,

     This week we inspected 8 missionary apartments. One set of Elders bought us a box of warm honey butter rolls and another set invited us for breakfast. Wow. We sure love these missionaries!  

     We enjoyed a BBQ with the other senior couples in front of the Mission Home, then another night went to see a musical show of “Sister Act” at a beautiful outdoor theater nestled in the redwood trees just above the Oakland Temple. 

     We’ve been given keys to an empty apartment just an half mile away from the temple. Our new routine is to serve at the Visitor Center until 9:00 p.m. then drive a couple minutes to settle down for the night instead of the 45 minutes back to our apartment. Then the next day we are right close to go to the temple and the Family Search Center for the day. Then we can stay again to be close to go to church somewhere on the peninsula. We have attended all the wards in the outer Bay Area, almost 100 now!

     This week we chose four wards in the Palo Alto area to attend. We went to two sacrament meetings and introduced ourselves to four different Sunday school classes. We drove back and forth between two buildings and took a picnic lunch. 

     The speaker at the first ward we attended was a young missionary home from his mission for surgery and invited to visit this ward to speak to them about his experiences so far. The amazing thing is Roger knew him while they were both serving on a Humanitarian trip in Malawi three summers ago!  How cool is that!?!  Then when we stood up, the man behind us greeted us as missionaries and we realized we were talking to Steve Young!  Pretty cool day at church.             We went to a San Francisco 49’ers preseason game. 

It’s been another great week. 

     A quote from my Aunt Sandy,  “When we are in the Lord’s service, something wonderful happens every day . . .  because the gospel is TRUE!”

    And this week . . . We get to fly home to be at the airport when Amy flies home from her mission!  

Life is great!

Love Elder and Sister Jerman

P.S.  Anyone nearby that would like to see Amy, she will be talking in church this Sunday, August 25th at 9:00 a.m. at the church on the corner of 300 N. 700 E. American Fork.   You’re invited to come by our home after to visit and get a bite to eat. We'll be here too, then we go back to serve our last two months.

Outdoor Theater in Redwoods to watch "Sister Act"

With Elder Tommy Butler

With Steve Young

NFL 49'ers game

Back in the Saddle

 After last week when both of us took turns not feeling well, we are so glad to be feeling better and we appreciate our health and your thoughts in our behalf.

Both Thursday and Friday evenings we took the shift at the Visitor's Center. It is so much fun to talk to people whose curiosity in the gospel of Jesus Christ is fueled by a genuine interest in finding out about our Savior.

Thursday I was able to talk to a young man who had his first visit to the Temple Hill Visitor Center and we had a good discussion about Jesus' life here on earth and his visit to the American Continent. He agreed that it was logical that Jesus loves everyone and would want to offer them the same things here as he did in Jerusalem. So I was able to get a referral and phone number for the Elders. 

Friday when we attended the temple, as we were walking out after our session, Elder Gong was shaking hands with people at the desk, just coming in, so I said Hi to Elder Gong and shook his hand as I went out. He was there for a niece's wedding.

Kaleen's sister-in-law called and said she was flying in for a quick reunion on her side of the family.  She came to see us at the Visitor Center and then we got to take her out with our friend Lawrence on another sail boat ride under the Bay Bridge. 

Sunday Kaleen and I gave talks during Sacrament Meeting at a YSA ward in Dublin. We cheered them on to live successful lives.  You know how it is with talks, you are always glad when you're done and you hope that nobody falls asleep and snores too loudly.

Afterwards, we stayed for a Linger Longer event to enjoy a meal with the young adults.  Kaleen got acquainted with the gal next to her and learned she had served her mission in Orem, and had served in American Fork, and had attended Zac's YSA ward a couple times and even recognized Zac in a picture.  Then Kaleen mentioned feeding the sister missionaries and this girl suddenly opened her eyes big and said, "Do you live at the end of a cul de sac by a park?"  You had two long tables set up and served empanadas!"  Really!?! Yes! We took a picture and then found pictures from a year and a half ago.  Cool!

This was at church yesterday. 

This was taken a year and a half ago with the same gal while she was serving her mission and came to eat dinner at our home. (I’m wearing the same dress. Haha!)

Hoping you're still awake after this letter, remember the gospel is true.

Love,

Elder and Sister Jerman

Change of plans

 Hello,

Hmmm, sometimes the plan all changes.  We have taken turns being sick so have had a very different week.  Elder Jerman still helped people write up resumes.  Sister Jerman watched the Olympics and crocheted a few baby hats to pass the time.  We are grateful that our air conditioning finally got fixed.   Trials make us stronger, right!?!  We'll ease back in

Here's to a good week, everyone!

Love, Elder and Sister Jerman

Spectacular sunset was the only outing for Kaleen