SUNDAY:
JUNE 17:
GOOD MORNING:
WELCOME:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY NOT ONLY TO MY FATHER WHOM I LOST ALMOST ONE YEAR AGO BUT, HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL THE FATHER’S!! I MISS MY FATHER. A FEW WEEKS BEFORE HE PASSED I WAS GOING THROUGH SOME STUFF SO I CALLED HIM AND HE SAID BABY GIRL I WISH I COULD BE THERE AND HOLD YOU IN MY ARMS. THAT WAS GREAT COMFORT TO ME BECAUSE HE KNEW I WAS TRYING TO GET BETTER SO THAT I COULD TAKE CARE OF HIM AND MOMA BUT, NEVERTHELESS, I THANK GOD FOR MY FATHER. PEOPLE USED TO SAY THAT DADDY WAS TOO STRICT BUT WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT HE WAS ONLY DOING THAT SO WE WOULD MAKE SOMETHING OF OURSELVES. YEAH DADDY CROPPED FIELDS A MILE LONG THAT HE CALLED GARDENS. ANY KIND OF VEGETABLES FROM WATERMELON – SWEET POTATOES WE HAD. I USED TO HAVE TO GET UP EARLY TO FEED THE CHICKENS, DOGS, PIGS, GOATS, COWS, AND ETC. I USED TO MILK THE COWS, CHURN THE MILK FOR BUTTER. MY FAVORITE CHORE WAS CUTTING PULP WOOD. IT WAS EASY TO ME BECAUSE DADDY WOULD CUT DOWN THE TREES AND ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS BUST THE WOOD APART SO I WOULD TAKE AN AX AND BUST UP THE WOOD OR IF THE WOOD WAS TOUGH I HAD TO USE THE MALT WITH WEDGES TO BREAK IT UP. AND ONE DAY THE CRANE WOULDN’T WORK ON THE PULP WOOD TRUCK SO DADDY TOLD MY BIG BROTHER TO GET UP THERE AND SEE IF HE COULD FIX IT BUT, HE COULDN’T SO I TOLD DADDY I COULD DO IT AND DADDY HAD MR TO GET UP THERE AND I PULLED THE CRANE WITH THE WOOD ONTO THE PULP WOOD TRUCK AND DADDY WAS HAPPY. AND AFTER THAT DAY MY DAD TEASED MY BIG BROTHER ABOUT WHAT I HAD DONE. HAVE A WONDERFUL FATHER’S DAY!!
MISSIONARY CYNTHIA BENNETT