Letter 6-29-09

So apparently this last week is a popular week to die. We were in the parking lot at our branch president’s apartment in Breckenridge, putting our bikes on the bike rack, about to drive home, when our branch president, President May, walks out and tells us that Michael Jackson is dead. Elder Reed and I were both dumbstruck. That was shocking news. Then, later, Saturday night, we were informed by an investigator that Fara Fawcett (sp?) and Ed McMahon died. Wow, thought I. No, we weren’t done though. Apparently Billy Mays, the oxi-clean dude / inventor guy, got nailed in the head with something when his plane landed and died 2 days later. Interesting week. Surprisingly, the Billy Mays death surprises me more then the Michael Jackson death. Well, silver lining is that those four will soon be informed of the gospel of Jesus Christ and be taught in the spirit world. How fun for them.
So we parked the other day and went out finding (tracting) in the ghetto when something funny happened. Apparently, some girl saw us park and decided to have a little fun with our car. We got back an hour or so later and discovered that the phrase ‘Jesus Loves You’ was written all over our windows. I got a kick out that. We washed our car last P-Day, like we always do, and it didn’t quite come out, so we have been stuck with it all week. This week is car inspections at Zone Conference, so hopefully we can get it out today, but if not, so be it. At least the vehicle coordinator will get a laugh before he marks us down.
So I have a very random, very unimportant question that jumped into my mind last week. It came when I was gazing at the first vision picture I have on my wall by my study desk. Every picture of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ that we see is depicted of them having a beard. I know that Christ probably did during his mortal ministry, just because that was the trend back then; it was kinda difficult to shave in my mind. Do you think they will have beards when we see them? Do you think that we will be allowed to have beards? If you look at any other picture of a heavenly messenger, none are ever drawn with beards. Puzzling thing. Only Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Maybe that is why Jesus was selected as the savior. Out of all our father’s spirit children, Jesus was the only one who had a beard like our father. Hehe. On that note, I’ll sign off. Everyone have a nice week and a wonderful 4th of July on Saturday.

Elder Adam R Droge
The DrogeMiester