Monday, July 26, 2010

This is a picture of President and Sister Dalton and the Freemans (you can hardly see Elder Freeman behind Sister Freeman) and Sam (our tour guide) It was a wonderful day being with our new President at Pearl Harbor. We got to know him a little better. He said he was the 2nd oldest of the 145 new Mission Presidents. He said "this is not a sprint, it is a marathon so usually much younger men are called. He is 66. They are well off financially because of their generosity. When missions were not the same across the board, there was a poor family in their ward whose son was called to a $900. month mission. The Daltons put a container in their own yard and asked the ward and others to put their newspapers in the bin so they could take it to be recycled when recycling was hardly heard of. They paid for the mission this way and realized it was very profitable and started what is now a huge industry. They said China buys most of their papers etc. now. They have no financial worries today because of their generosity.

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