October 7, 1979
Little Rock, Arkansas


Dearest Ron, Ann & Susanna, Rick Jean & Ricky, and Roy,

This will be mostly to Roy because I'm sure Daddy has told you all the news while he's been with the Woolleys and Weinerts in Utah this week-end.

Roy - we really loved your letter and we're so thrilled you are trying to write each week. If you get so busy you just have time for one sentence we will still really appreciate week it. your school sounds good and your apartment sounds like it's working out too - I'll bet you will rally grow to appreciate good food this year and you'll probably develop a liking to many things you haven't cared for before. I'll keep on the look out for recipes I think to many things you haven't cared for before. I'll keep on the look out for receipts I think you would be able to make and send them on - do you have a lot of hamburgers??? Robert is home again this week-end and come over for a little while yesterday -he has a "bone infection" in his leg - he has a section along the bone in front of the leg about six inches long that is all red and feverish - I have never seen anything like it before but he said he had talked to other kids who had had the came thing. He has an appointment with the doctor tomorrow and then will fly back to school. He says he is tired of school and would like to be out on his own and "do his own thing" for awhile. We must have talked about two hours on religion and I truly feel sorry for him - after our conversations he said he sometimes says things to people to shock them and get their reaction so maybe he isn't as lost as I think he is. I walked out to the car with him just as Scott Cooper's father was passing with his dogs and he said that Scott was doing fine - we could almost set our clocks by Mr. Cooper's daily walk with his dogs - he does not deviate from about five minutes every single day and he has done that for the last ten years - oh, to be so scheduled!!!!

This is the first time since we have lived in Arkansas that our conference wasn't televised. It was really a disappointment to many people- we went to church from 11 to 1 and then again from 2:30 to 5 to hear the direct radio broadcast and that was really good - President Kimball spoke for about twenty minutes and it was really difficult for him but it was important that he do that do let the members know he was doing okay. I'm sure those of you in Utah heard it all. A lot of people asked if Daddy had called to tell me any of the ones of the conference and I said he had called but all the talked about was his two grandchildren. Ricky and Susanna must be the two most outstanding children in the world to hear him talk - we are anxious to come in November!!!!

I don't know if any of you remember that crack in the ceiling in the living room - well, it has been there a long, long time and Daddy decided he would try to fix it. we cut about a five for long and one foot wide section out of the ceiling on Wednesday - it wasn't what he thought it was so he got a piece of plaster board and put back in there and patched it up with plaster - really I have that fine plaster dust allover everything!!! It still isn't smooth as I would like it to be but he's going to cal it "done" I'm sure when he gets home and he'll paint the ceiling tomorrow so we can start wallpapering in there - our wallpaper came and it really pretty. Our carpet is in also so now we just have to wait until they can get someone to come lay it - we're really excited to get everything back together again. They delivered our freezer the first of the week and we put in downstairs in the den bar place but it looks quite out of place so we'll probably move it somewhere. After we cleaned out the chest freezer and got all the ice from the sides it started to work again -it still isn't freezing but it keeps plenty cold so now we have huge refrigerator - Daddy thinks he can fix it so it will freeze and he probably will be able to but it would be quite dangerous to trust it if we weren't going to he here. we should probably pull a trailer when we come to Utah in November and bring it for Aunt Marvel's house - maybe it will die a natural death before then!!!!

I went to a party for Kevin Sondrup out at their new home on Friday night - Barbara gave him a surprise birthday party because he was turning 35 - it was really nice. Barbara had sent out the cutest invitations and asked people to bring a plant or shrub or some kind of start from their own yard as a gift - since Daddy was gone and I didn't know hat to dig up I gave them some tulip and crocus bulb. They have a lovely home and it is really decorated cute. Marilyn Harris made all the horsed' oeuvres (sp.?) and they were just fabulous - I'll get her recipes and send them to you. Frances James also helped and made her Geise bread and the salad - we all took our own steaks. I didn't stay very long because John had several boys home with him and they were working on his moped!!!!

Hall lost a heartbreaker game to Parkview last Friday night -Johnny wanted to go to the game but couldn't get a ride I what anyone and he didn't want me to go with him so he stayed home with two of his friends to work on their mopeds. The games are always held at Quigley and I won't let him just go unless he is with some parents - that is a dangerous part of town (I can hear you laughing Roy). Hall really has a good team and everyone thought they would win - the cheerleaders served thirty-two sheets together and tacked them to a wall of their school and painted "Give 'em Ball" on it - it was really cute.

The Razorbacks just barely beat TCU yesterday - I was impressed when I read about it that our coach, Lou Holtz went to their locker room to call them the "Winners" after the game was over because they had outplayed Arkansas - I'm sure that's unusual.

Bob and Claire are doing fine - they are both too thin but I can't do anything about that. They are having some physician from all over the state come to the campus this Thursday to try to recruit some of the students to come to their town to practice after they get out of Med. School. They called an asked me to come be one of the hostesses for the meetings - I think that will be fun. Bob says his classes are getting harder but he said he expected them to.

Daddy I tell you that the Munks are moving - they are going to Cleveland, Ohio for a year so he can get some kind of training that will qualify him for promotion - as it is now he is as for as he can go. We will really miss them.

Sandy Blankenship is selling some kind of makeup so I went to a makeup party at her home one day last week - she has been working at the Carriage House but she is going to quiet if this works out.

The neighbors are all doing fine- the Hipps have gone to Houston for a week. I had a long visit with Betty Mahan one day last week. She said she was really hopping you would go over and visit with her this Summer Roy. Their home is up for sale again - she has surgery so they took it off the market for awhile. Her husband is going back to work for the same company he was with before and they are going to move to Kentucky. she said they had both worn themselves out in the "shirt factory" so they sold it. she told me that Terry and her husband are doing god - they have bought a home and he is working for the shirt factory still and Terry has good job too. Dutch is "out on his own" and she said he is starving to death - they didn't want to send him to college yet because they didn't feel it he was ready for it so he got a job as a mechanic and is living in an apartment here in Little Rock. Betty asked about you Ann and Jean too - she's a cute persons.

We're having beautiful Fall weather - I still have any fever like crazy so I'm hopping for a "hard freeze". I followed the weather on the news and it was warmer in Utah this week than it was here so Daddy will be happy to get home and get cooled off.

We surely do love each one of you and we're so proud of you - please let us know if there is anything we can do for you and please be very careful in everything you do.
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