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Greetings from the beautiful state of Missouri! It's an absolutely breathtaking autumn day. This is my favorite time of year. The leaves are changing their adornments and the flowers are brilliant with color. I know that won't last long with the onset of the roller-coaster weather changes coming, so I'll savor each of these moments.

But....before we got to this beautiful state, we had an action packed week. We arrived back in Sisseton from our tour to the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, KY, unpacked furiously, and tried to catch up on office work and laundry so we could then re-pack the coach for our fall tour.

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What an exciting week! We began our Fun and Fellowship Tour on Wednesday, September 13th, to the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. We had 41 passengers on board the coach. What a great group of guests! Everyone was so special adding a lot of fun and excitement to the journey.

On Thursday, we stopped at St. Louis, Missouri, to visit the world-famous Arch. Several tour-goers ventured to the top. They could see all of St. Louis, the river, and the beautiful surrounding country. Needless to say, they were mesmerized.

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It's a beautiful fall day! Last Thursday, it was 86 degrees. It was one of those gorgeous days you'd like to put in a capsule and pull out on one of those sub-zero, snow-blowing South Dakota January days. It was so refreshing I opened all the windows. Unbeknownst to us the temperature dropped to 33 degrees during the night. Reluctantly, I crawled out of bed, shut the windows, turned on the heat and lamented, "No, it can't be this cold already." Thankfully it has warmed back up to the mid 70's. This time of year I savor each of these beautiful days.

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Greetings from Sisseton! We just returned home for three days after having a wonderful month of soulwinning rallies in the beautiful state of Minnesota. It was so refreshing to drive up to our home; it looked so inviting! I just wanted to run in and retreat! But...of course...it took us a little while to unload a month's worth of suitcases, ministry stock, office equipment, sound equipment and our personal items. I have three days to unpack and repack to hit the road again on Thursday evening.

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Let's see! Let me catch my breath...this past week whizzed by very quickly with so much happening. We are currently in the middle of our Northern Minnesota tour. Several tornadoes and storms moved through Minnesota last week. We thank God we were spared in this area as we only had some high winds come through. If you have read the newspaper or watched the evening news, you may have learned that several tornadoes raced through the area wiping out some small communities, destroying farms and damaging dozens of homes. Our hearts and prayers go out to the hundreds who have experienced loss during this time.

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It is another breathtaking August day. It couldn't be more perfect...well...I guess what would make it totally perfect would be if I had absolutely nothing on my To-Do list! If that was the case, I would sneak outdoors, take a hike, sit and sip coffee or read my pile of when I have spare time articles. Well, there is slight chance of any of that happening. I will just be thankful that I have been given the gift of life and that I had the privilege to wake up today. I will embrace my office tasks and be happy!

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Greetings from Brainerd, MN. What a spectacular August day! Larry and I flew back to Minneapolis from Miami, FL, last Friday afternoon after a wonderful fun-filled six day vacation. Our bodies and minds were ready for it!

For 25 years, we have tried to plan a time where Larry and I could get together with his two brothers and their wives-Lowell and Connie; Leon and Ronda for a brothers' reunion. Well, we finally did it! After Lowell's youngest son's wedding on August 5th...

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Greetings from Miami, Florida. What an exciting week! Larry and I flew out of Minneapolis on Friday to Miami to attend the wedding of our nephew, Lance Lundstrom and Paola Shepherd. Lance is the youngest son of Larry's brother, Pastor Lowell and Connie Lundstrom, of Lakeville, MN.

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I stopped to watch my little girl
busy playing in her room.
In one hand was a plastic phone;
in the other a toy broom.

I listened as she was speaking
to her make believe little friend
and I'll never forget the words she said,
even though it was pretend.

She said "Suzie's in the corner
cuz she's not been very good.
She didn't listen to a word I said
or do the things she should."

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There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of my dad. He was one of a kind! When Dad was fun…he was fun!When he was serious, he was very serious. When he was upset….run! With that in mind, we, kids, really tried to watch our p's and q's knowing it was always better to be good and accountable than to have done something wrong and face the wrath later. It seems before I could tell him what I had done wrong, Dad was already taking me aside to address it. Because of this uncanny ability, I tried to always be up front and honest with him.

Well, there was just one situation that happened that I hesitated to address. Ooooh…I tried to weigh it out….what is safer at this time?