August 12th

G'day mates from sunny, winter in Australia: Congrats to twins Lori, age 29 & holding and twin, Quinn,
now quickly catching up with her Aunt Lori, at age 3 on this past Thur., Aug. 9th.; hope your birthdays were wonderful!
Last Monday, Aug. 6th we met with a set of missionaries on the ANU(Australian Nat. Uni) to participate in a teaching appointment with a young female student from mainland China, named Kristine. She said a beautiful prayer at the end
with such a sweet spirit, and this after only two meetings. We also have in one of our Uni classes another baptized (about a year ago) member that will finish his studies within this month and will return to mainland China. There are a lot of Asians at
both of the campus's we teach at. Probably have already written this, but have yet to see any Hispanics. We taught two Institute classes in the evening and two Uni classes during the day.
Friday p.m., the YSA had a fun activity with two of the 19+ yr old missionaries in which they did a mock up
of a mission president sending off all the attendees on 4 separate missions. Returned missionaries presented great
reviews of their own missions. The current missionaries showed some ways to approach strangers/friends and
current members told how they handled sometimes "difficult" questions from co-workers/friends.
That morning we had attended the current missionaries district meeting @ their request. It is something else to see their great spiritual maturity and obvious love for the Savior and their work as missionaries. It made me think of all of you and that I could picture the spiritual strength and maturity you had at that time in your young lives. My older brother, Tom made an interesting comment years ago about you as missionaries. He said something about, "I don't exactly know what it is about your "kids" serving missions, but there is something about their maturity."
Hope this finds you all well; you continue to be in our prayers. We pray special prayers for our teenage grandchildren to
be prepared to serve the Lord within the next few years or more. What a privilege it is to serve.
We miss you all more than you can know; but continue to realize we are where we are supposed to be at this time in
our lives.
Love, Sis. Mac, aka mom mac/grandma mac