Dear Family and Friends:
Well a few things happening but nothing too exciting. Rusty Bayles has been here for the week. He is coming over to be the head finance guy. He is really excited to be coming. He has been at Green River for 17 years and is ready for a change. Magadi soda has applied for a work visa for him, so when it is granted he will return for about two years. His family will be staying in green River. He has a son that is a senior this next year and a son that will be in the 7th grade. So it would be difficult for them to come here. They will come over for visits and he will go back for big events. It shouldn’t be bad for him while we are here together. But when I go home, it will be lonely.
Earlier in the week, the Stake Presidency was reviewing youth programs and was considering how to get the scouting program kicked off in Kenya. There are no organized troops here in the church and I’m not sure there are any troops in the country. The Duty to God program is used here to help the young men in religious training but as far as activities there is no program other than ad-hock activities. Well the answer came today in church. I invited Rusty up to introduce himself in Sacrament meeting. As he was bearing his testimony, he talked about going to the national scout jamboree. After Sacrament meeting the first counselor in the stake presidency came up to me and he told me they found their guy to get scouting going in Kenya. Rusty was a scout master for years in the 4th ward in Green River and has been involved with scouting for years. President Kelsey, you can’t warn Rusty, I haven’t told him this. I figured I’d let the Stake talk to him.
So this week a guy came in to see me. He has no job; he just sits around all day. He is a guy that I have been climbing with before so he is a pretty good kid but jus that no ambition. So anyway, here is how the story goes. He came in and started telling me about his health problems. He has been in a hospital because of back problems. They haven’t been able to do much good so he decided to try some tribal medicine. To do that he told me he needed to go to his village where his goats (notice plural) are kept. He was going to butcher the goat and eat certain parts to help his condition. Then he asked me for money so he could pay for his ride to the village, he needed about $15 US to get there. I knew that’s about how much a goat costs so I asked him why he just didn’t buy a goat here and do his treatment in Magadi. He told me he wanted to use one of his own goats. I thought this would be a good opportunity to teach him some self reliance. So I suggested he bring back one of his goats and sell it so he could take care of his own expenses and not have to ask others to support him. That is when he told me he only had one goat. It is just too easy to ask others to support you and not try to figure it out for yourself. So anyway, I told him that I wouldn’t give him any money. He had the resources to handle it on his own and that is what he should do. Hope I am not being too mean. As you can probably tell, I’m getting tired of being asked for money at every turn.
So anyway, work could be going better but there is progress being made in the plant. The Board of Directors are here this week and a few of them will be here tomorrow. So it is dog and pony show time. Hope they don’t run me off. Doubt they will but you never know.
Krista is ready to have her baby, Debi is there now helping. We are excited to have a baby girl in the family. I don’t know if they have come up with a name yet, my suggestion of Paula Taylora Fullerton didn’t go very far. Can’t understand why, I liked the name.
Can’t think of much else to say.
Love you all
Paul/dad
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