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I am enjoying Ivan & Daisy's new home, they are so good to me. My Sister Lizzie writes that she remembers the good visit she & I had at Josephine's when she got Lizzie & I to visit her together at Valentine last spring. Hugh & Nellie brought Lou & Vivian from St.Johns to see her. We had all thought it would be a good chance to talk the Gospel with her but when she first got there she told us she had all the religion she wanted, so what could we do. I do long to tell her these many wonderful truths of the Gospel. I want her to be in the same kingdom with us, that kingdom she & I were born heir to. I have sent her all the 4 standard works. the Era for several years. She finally told me she did't read it & how I love to. What more can I do, only pray that she will yet accept the gospel. For years we had wished we had a Richey Family Organization & wondered how to get a Richey Organization going. Daisy & I got Hugh & Leigh to help & sent invitations to all the Richey relatives to meet in St.Johns the Saturday before the 24th of July. There is always a celebration in St.Johns so we had a meeting, Hugh took charge. It was a success & for three years we have been holding these meetings, the oldest family of the James & Lucinda Richey children taking turns taking charge. We are getting a Genealogist to do research, hoping & praying to get on the line to do the work as it should be & meeting every year to carry on the work.
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Tucson now as the winters are pleasant but I like to visit among my children during the hot months. Josephine at Valentine. Lou, Hugh, Leigh & Vivian summers & my Grandchildren Wayne & others at Farmington & Albuquerque. I enjoy each one & they are all so kind & I love to see them all with their children around them, tending to their church duties & teaching the Gospel to their children. I am so very thankful for the faithfulness of my dear ones & pray constantly they will all be faithful. I write to my dear ones often & their letters are such a comfort to me. I would like to tell of seeing so many people three nights traveling East, I wasn't asleep. the walls of my house was no obstacle, they went close by my head like there wasn't a wall just traveling on & on hundreds & thousands of them. There was only one man that looked at me but he didn't stop, it didn't make me afraid. After looking at them for quite awhile I would go to sleep. This went on for 3 nights then I asked the Lord that I didn't see them any more & I didn't. I had often wondered where all the spirits of all the people were that had lived on the earth & wondered if I had seen some of them. These surely were not those who had work to do over there & why were they all going East they didn't stop & talk, they just all kept going East. It didn't make me nervous or afraid but I got tired of watching them. Houses, trees or my wall wasn't in their way, they just traveled on where my wall was & close to
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