“I
bet you think I’ve fallen in. But I
haven’t. Now the problem is to get two
weeks into less than a pamphlet. Well, I can’t be as detailed as I’d like. Somehow last week was simply swamped and
rushed. If only I had a typewriter
now! Well – I made the preacher’s wife
jealous in California [a town in Missouri]….
“I
am anxiously awaiting further discussion of later summer plans. It looks as if Dot’s folks could take me to
St. Louis & I could leave from there.
However, I will do what you want me to.
I promised this summer to go where sent & conduct myself as a good
servant of Jesus Christ, so I guess
another week wouldn’t hurt. I at least
know my traveling companions for that week….
“Mr.
Hesler at California was marvelous. So
was Mr. Yoes[?] at Dexter. But Mrs.
Heslor was a funny one – an Easterner – no sense of humor & Mr. Hesler was
clever as can be – She got funny notions. However I had no intention of taking
her husband away. I didn’t even know she
had this notion until we left…."
--Letter
from my mother, Charleston, Missouri, to her family, [likely in Hutchison,
Kans.], Saturday, July 27, 1946.
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