April
23, 1973
Harold - dist leader Lyon
New
address/ Chez Thome
74 Cours de la Liberte
69003
Lyon, France
Dear Family,
It is Monday morning
again. Yesterday was Easter, and I
believe for the first time in the history of the Carlson Clan we didn’t cook or
color Easter eggs. In fact, a pound of
Easter candies, and a chocolate rabbit were all we got. Yesterday afternoon Grandma and I went to
Salt Lake to Bill Davidson’s missionary farewell. He is going to the Northern mission, with
headquarters in Chicago. Most of the
family were there. I’m afraid I get too
tired tho. I haven’t gone in the car
lately without nearly going to sleep at the wheel. I don’t get to sleep before midnight, and am
awake at 6:A.M. Last night I got to bed
by 9:30 for the first time in months, and slept till 7:A.M. and I felt
better. Will has been going out playing
night games with the neighborhood kids every night till 10:P.M. and I am going
to have to put a stop to that except for a couple of nights a week. This every night has got to stop. He went again to McDonald’s and they always
say come back in three weeks. This time he
is going in every week till they get tired of seeing him.
Elda Mae Runyan and Lee
Gaskill came by one evening last week to visit.
The Runyans were here on a youth temple trip. They did baptisms in the Salt Lake Temple and
in Manti. Denver school had a whole week
off for Easter Vacation. Grandma is
quite a character. About 9:15 P.M. she
said, “When are they going home.” I told
her in a little while, and asked her if I could help her get to bed. She said, “No, I had better not go to
bed. I had better stay up and help you
get rid of them.” I took her to the
bedroom and told her that those ladies had come all the way from Denver to see
me, and she said, “Denver isn’t very far away these days” “Tell them that the
goblins come out after 9:o’clock at night around here.” We just had a good laugh over it. Elda Mae was saying that Grandma Lucy is now
in a nursing home, that her mind wanders, and George has taken over her
property and finances. Lee Gaskell spent
the night with me, and mentioned that Tim Runyan is not active in the
church. She said that he started working
for Jerry Slaughter and got in with the wrong bunch.
Lou called Friday evening,
and he has only one more test to take, and his average percentage is 90, and he
will graduate on the 18th, and they will be here by the evening of
the 19th. He is going to get
spoiled with the army coming in and packing all his household goods etc. The army will even come here and get all
their things from here. Kirkhams will
have to bring the things they have up there, and the Army will pick them all up
here. Boy, some people have it
easy. They will have 15 days off, and
then they will be going to Ft. Riley, Kansas.
We can go see them on our way home from Virginia. Will can’t get off school till the 24th,
so if Laurie has had her baby, we will leave the afternoon of the 24th
of May for Virginia, and will go as far as Loveland, get there about 1:A.M.,
sleep till about 5 or 6 A.M. and then get going again. We will probably make one more stop before we
get to Virginia. We are taking the old car. I will buy 4 new tires, and have someone
check the car over good, and I think we will make it ok. Lou and Karen will stay here till Alice and
Sam arrive, then they will go on up to Salt Lake. Of course Laurie and Marlin has room for them
if they want to go up there. By then,
maybe the snow will be gone from the road.
Yesterday the sun was out all day, but it was quite cold. It snowed nearly every day last week, and as
I looked up at the mountains, I felt that we were in the garden of the selfish
giant where it was always winter. The
deer were even down on the mountain again on Saturday morning.
I’ll be glad when my May
lesson is over. It has been quite hard
for me to concentrate long enough to prepare a lesson. I sometimes feel like I have nothing, or no
object to my life. I work till I am
ready to drop just so I won’t have to think.
It is crazy, but I will either get a job by fall, or start going to
school, and try to catch up with my children.
Harold I feel that you are
going thru a testing period with so little activity in the church in the city
of Valence. This is probably the hardest
time of your whole mission, and the way you discipline yourself will determine
how you feel about yourself, and your mission.
There is someone in that town looking for the gospel, or you wouldn’t
have been kept there for so long a time.
Keep searching them out. Hope the
tapes arrived ok. Lou and Karen’s David
is going into the hospital to have his tear duct probed. It has been clogged since birth, and they had
it all scheduled for last week, and he caught cold, and they had to cancel. They were going in again today to have him
checked. End of paper. Lovingly, Mother
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