We enjoyed another busy week. We
were able to teach and visit our regular families. In addition we taught our first lesson to the Roche family.
Because of some previous negative experiences with the members of the church,
where they previously lived in Utah, they were cautious and a little reluctant
to agree to a lesson. We made it short and interesting. All of the children and
mom and dad were waiting for us and in their places and attentive. The Lord
blessed us with a good spirit so we proceeded to share a video that featured a
flash mob of youth in front of the Salt Lake Temple singing and dancing to:
“I Know Who I Am”.
The children are aged 16, 13 and 11
so we shared the news about the changes in the ages for missionary service.
(They have been away from the church for a while.) They had some questions that
we answered. Overall it was a good introduction to us and for them a
re-introduction to the church. We reminded them of the importance of doing the
basics to keep our families safe in this perilous time and the promised
blessings that will come when they comply. We now have set a time each week to
bring them a message. We hope and expect that over time they will want to come
back into full activity.
The Roche family, Dennis Klingman
and the Carlson family live in the small community of Crystal Falls the county
seat of Iron County along with 8 to 10 other LDS families and individuals. We
have been blessed to be instruments to help bring these and other families in this
area back into activity. In fact, little Akasha attended church yesterday with
her mother and grandmother for the second week in a row. She is nine and we
have a baptism date for the 8th of June. If she doesn’t make that
date it will be the following week. We are grateful and blessed to be involved.
An interesting side story is the possibility that Dennis will marry a fantastic
LDS woman he met on an LDS Singles site. She has been visiting him here and
seems like a great match. If that happens she will be here with him at least
for a year of two, which will greatly help the branch. If missionaries are ever
assigned to this area, which is about 30 miles from Iron Mountain, we will have
a few individuals who will need to be taught and now we have the fellowshippers
as well. Although we don’t know many of the details, we have been told that
this area (Iron County) is where the first converts to the church in the Upper
Peninsula were found and baptized.
This was our last pasty making
week; what a blessing it has been to help these stalwart people with this
monthly effort. They expressed over and over their sadness with our leaving. We
don’t think it is entirely because of our work, which will have to be replaced,
but also because we have become friends.
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| The final pasty of the day, mission and perhaps...life. |
The mission changes, for the better,
every aspect of your interactions with your “eternal siblings”. That is the
wisdom of the first bullet point in the “How to Begin Teaching” section of Preach my Gospel where it is explains we are all children of a Heavenly Father who loves us and,
because of that, may we call you Brother and Sister.
Feeling grateful,
Brother and Sister “aka” Elder and Sister Johnson
Recent News Item. This occurred in our branch boundaries.
Black bear attacks man
May 16, 2013
The Daily News
By LISA M. REED
Staff Writer
TOWN OF SILVER CLIFF, Wis. - Marinette County Sheriff's
deputies and Silver Cliff Rescue were called to a residence on Finch Lane
Wednesday for a black bear that had attacked a man.
According to the incident report, the complainant
advised dispatch at 1:25 p.m. that the bear had bitten her husband and was
still circling the house and wouldn't leave.
Upon arrival, Marinette County Deputy Daniel Beauchamp
saw what appeared to be a juvenile bear in the driveway near the house. A man
in the cabin window pointed at the bear questioning if this was the bear that
attacked him and he said yes.
Beauchamp then exited his squad with his shotgun while
the black bear walked around the passenger side of the squad car.
Beauchamp got in position for a safe shot and waited for
the bear to show himself.
The bear came around the front passenger side of the
squad car and was shot by the deputy with one round of "OO" buck,
which killed the bear.
Dispatch was advised that it was safe for rescue to
come.
Gerre Ninnemann and his wife, Marie, were inside the
cabin. Gere had bite marks from his belt line up to the back of his head along
with cuts and scratches.
Marie administered first aid.
The incident report indicates that Gerre said he heard
his dog barking and then saw the bear going after his dog. He called his dog
back then tried to run into the house, but the bear ran him down from behind
the took him to the ground and started biting and clawing his back.
Gerre was able to get up and made it to the corner of
the cabin when the bear caught him again and attacked him.
Marie said she grabbed a gun from the basement and some
shells and her husband told her to shoot.
She said she never shot a gun before and didn't know how
to load it.
She said she hit the bear over the head trying to get it
away from her husband.
The bear let go and Gerre was able to get the shotgun
from Marie and use it as a stick trying to poke the bear and keep it away from
them as they backtracked into the cabin.
The bear continued to circle the cabin and looked in
every window as it walked around the cabin and would not leave the property.
Gerre was then taken by Silver Cliff Rescue to Bay Area
Medical Center for treatment. His condition is unknown.
Conservation Warden Tim Werner arrived and assisted in
the investigation.
He kept the bear so that is could be checked in Madison,
Wis. for possible rabies.
Lisa M. Reed's e-mail address is lreed@ironmountaindailynews.com.
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