Letter to Elder Strong 11/30

Our Patriarch in South Carolina has a wonderful wife who faithfully writes Jonathan each week. This is a sample of her letters.

November 30, 2009

Dear Elder Strong,

I am having to catch up with a lot of stuff since the Patriarch is better and gone back to work so I will just send a few quotes this week – just to prove to you that we think about you and pray for you.

1. An upright person can never be a downright failure.
2. The one nice thing about growing older is tht you and your children eventually wind up on the same side of the generation gap.
3. It’s almost impossible to know when you are making a memory.
4. A friend is one who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
5. Choose not your friends by outward show, for the feather floats where the pearl lies low.
6. To attain the best in life, be sure to live your best to living.
7. Do what you can with what you have where you are.
8. It’s better to prepare and prevent than to repair and repent.
9. It’s impossible to win at all if no risk is taken.
10. Every age is modern to those who are living in it.
11. Experience is what you get when you are looking for something else.
12. Discontent is the penalty we pay for being ungrateful for what we have.
13. You aren’t really old until you’re glad to see another birthday.
14. Progress has little to do with speed and much to do with direction.
15. Two kinds of people fail: those who listen to nobody and those who listen to everybody.

Remember that you are loved very much from everyone and especially Heavenly Father. Always CTR.

Love,
Patriarch & Sister Woods