Miskin Milestone

This one will be the shortest one ever. I did write one for March but never sent it, at least I don't think I did because some couldn't receive it with attachments and I couldn't really rewrite it. Once I write, I forget the subject because it is time to move on.
This newsletter is just to remind us that we are family and we need to pray for each other. We are all at different levels in our understanding of the gospel and our understanding of the way the world works. It seems that many of us are struggling monetarily and some of us struggling spiritually. Let us just take the time to pray for each other no matter what our feelings about the choices others have made. We all need help with different aspects of our lives but one thing that will help more than anything is if we have a group of people praying for us. I still remember how we as a 13th ward fasted and prayed for Bishop Morgan when he had his heart operation. His physical body was being attacked. It was easy to identify what we could and should do. For other things it can be difficult to put our finger on the problem, especially our own. Sometimes it is easier to see what problems others are having and why than it is our own. Anyway, Please, just pray for each other and then each of us think how we can help ourselves do better and how we can help others in the family. We do help others a lot but sometimes we forget our own families.
I love you all so much and glad you are mine. I love the way you have always shown love to me and helped me in the way that you can. Times are going to get tougher for us all especially if we are not living the gospel so please just try to do better. There is a God in heaven watching over the whole thing that is going on down here. He loves us all so much. I also know that my parents and grandparents are involved in you children's lives. I have dreams about them at times when I am worried about you.
I do not have monetary means to help any of you at this time and it makes me sad but I have been where you at. Paid rent with my own labor, eaten beans for a week and actually one winter. Lived on almost nothing but potatoes many times. The trouble now is most of us live in cities where everything costs an arm and a leg. We were able to glean the potatoes out of a farmer's field every fall and store them all winter. I don't know if that is even possible in Utah but there is the bishop's storehouse.
Well, that is enough for tonight.
Happy Birthday, Marshall. Jenn said I could catch you on face book but I don't know how. Someone tell him I didn't forget.