On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Tim Hackleman <timhackleman@live.com> wrote:
Dear Elder Punkin Sonshine,
How was your week?? We had a great weekend! I hope you are sitting down while reading this: Papio South beat Papillion Lavista Monarchs 44-34. The Monarchs' QB is one of the best in the state and we picked him off 6 times!!! 2 were pick-sixes!! Seth was so excited. He played every single offensive down.The crowd rushed the field at the end of the game. It was so much fun. It was crazy hot though. The game ended at 10:00 and it was 85 degrees and humid. Ugh!
We have 4 football games this week. Tuesday is Grant's first game, then Thursday both Grant and Nathan play, then Friday is Seth's away game against Bellevue East. You know your mom and dad, WE LOVE IT!!!
Did you have any baptisms this past week? You and your comp sure have been working hard! I am so proud of you. I had the ward bulletin changed to include your email address. Maybe you'll get some emails from some ward members. I know you are super busy, but we sure do love to hear what you have been up to.
I love you son! Keep up the hard work. I hope you are feeling well. Grant says that he fasts for you every fast Sunday.
¡Ámele! Papá
ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the best football news I have ever seen! Papio south beat Papio! Seth played every down. Nathan and Grant are getting ready to start. Utah won. BYU and BSU lost. Wow. My week has been made. Haha
We had one baptism. His name is xxxxxxx. He´s nine. If you are wondering if he’s crying in the picture, it´s ´cuz he is. They don´t have temperature control over the water in the bap fonts here so the water is arctic cold. He started crying in the font and said he didn’t want to do it. I told him in 10 seconds it will all be over just look forward and I will do everything. It was way cool though, especially to shed some light on a dismal couple days before.
xxxxxx, the other person we were supposed to baptize that I told you about last week didn´t get baptized. So on thursday we had a work visit with the zone leaders so I was in a different area with one of them and the other was in my area with my companion. It worked perfectly because xxxxxx needed to be interviewed by the zone leader anyway. He got interviewed at the stake center. His interview went great and everything was set. He was talking with my companion and the other zone leader outside the church for awhile after the interview. Our ward was having an activity there so the bishop and all the ward were outside doing their own thing. Well while they were talking his wife showed up. She has never been to church, I don´t know how she even knew where the building was but she walked up and shoved him and began chewing him out over how he was making the worst decision of his life and that their relationship is on the line if he decides to be baptized. She does this in front of the entire ward. And seriously dad, this guy is golden. This guy is how I understand when missionaries talk about how strong their love is for their investigators. This guy was ¨him¨ for me. I have never seen a stronger testimony in someone as new to the church as he was.
Well anyway, we had a visit with him the next day to make sure everything was ok and when we got there, he starting apologizing for everything that had happened and for wasting our time but he won´t be able to get baptized or even attend church anymore. It was all I could do to keep from crying. He returned his book of mormon, his manual for gospel principles class, and even his hymn book. All of which he had for himself already. He told us his wife won´t even allow the book of mormon in the house. He said that he knows this church is true, he has no doubt about anything we have taught him or what he has learned from coming to church but he knows how important families are and if he gets baptized now, he will ruin his.
It was easily the hardest experience I have had so far on my mission. I now know that the difficult experiences that I am going to have are not going to be something that I have to go through for myself, because I can handle that. It will be the struggles that my investigators go through that I have to witness and try to help them in any way I can but, sometimes, may come up short because of various reasons. It is definitely a testimony challenger but a builder as well. Sorry this letter is so dismal. It really was a good week with the exception of that.
We had this activity on Wednesday called Gastronomica. Every group (I don’t remember what it´s called in English. Relief society, young mens, Priesthood and so on..) cooked an authentic Peruvian food and then everyone came and ate until they were stuffed. I was the only person not from Peru. Everyone in the ward made my plate for me and all watched me eat it to see how I liked it all. You can see how many people were there from these pics. It was all soooo good. I did it on saturday and didn´t eat again until after our fast on sunday and it was still the easiest fast I have ever had because I was soo full. Haha
I have a bunch of pics so I will send some more to mom. Love you dad!
Monday, September 2, 2013
Seth's 1st Home Football Game 2013
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Visitors had a whiteout. The stadium was so full they had to sit on the grass. |
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20 Minutes before Kick-Off The Place Was Hopping. The Band Gave a Pre-Game Performance |
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Seth is #55 |
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There were official timeouts every 15 minutes or so to re-hydrate. There still were many kids who went down with leg cramps. We are happy to report, Seth was not one of them. |
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Notice all the fans. You have got to love Nebraska. Folks around here really support football. We had people sitting all around us in the stadium who didn't know a single player, but they were out cheering their hearts out. They were thrilled to learn that #55 was our son. It gave them someone to cheer for ha ha. |
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Seth's Trainer Becky, was awesome. She ran over and checked on Seth every time he came off the field to make sure his shoulder was doing ok. She has watched him carefully ever since he had a concussion in the off season as well. We sure are glad they have such a great staff! |
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The Temperature was 95 degrees at kick-off. By 10:30 it was still 85 degrees. Seth took his helmet off when the Defense was on the field to help cool him off. He was in every single offensive play. |
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Seth's Fan Club! |
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Tim Law gave us Digital Badges. It said, "Go Titans #55" |
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Final Score, Papillion La-Vista South 44, Papillion La-Vista 34. This is only the 2nd time South has won in 11 attempts. The game was an upset since Papillion has the #1 quarterback in the state. South picked him off 6 times. Notice his left arm has a black sleeve. This is his brace he wears to help keep his shoulder from popping out of joint. Luckily it worked! |
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After the Game the entire student section stormed the field. We decided to join them and get a picture:) Seth was soaking wet because he kept pouring water over his head to help cool him off. |
Monday, August 26, 2013
Elder Hackleman's Cousins on Missions
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Elder Cook, Arizona |
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Elder Beck Currently at the Provo MTC, Sweden Mission, Also in the picture is Elder Tayson Beck who has returned from a Mission already, Argentina |
More from Elder Hackleman
Dear Elder,
So how was your week? I know you had a lot of investigators! How are they progressing? How is xxxx and his father? For some reason I'm always thinking about them. Maybe because xxxx is the first investigator that you told us about. I have to admit, I fear you may not be long for that area. Pops smells a transfer in your near future. Tell us how things are going! Your mom is going to share a very special photo with you. You are gonna love it!! It has to do with one of your brothers!!! Seth's first game is Friday and the Utes open their season against Utah State on Thursday!!! Wooooohoooooo!! Sorry Punkin! It's football season!!!
Anyway, things are going well here. Everyone is healthy and doing well. Except one minor thing with Seth. He has to have shoulder surgery. He's been dislocating it in practice. We took him into see a doctor at the same place as your knee doctor. Remember Dr. O'Malley? They said that the tendons holding it in place are shot and that he needs to have it done right after this season, if he can make it that long. The bad part is that he said it's a 6 month recovery. Anyway, they gave us a prescription for a brace that he can wear during games and practices. Seth said that it is helping him a lot! So that's a relief.
I hope you're staying healthy! You haven't had any more illness, have you?
Take care big guy! I sure do love you tiger!!
Papa
Hey dad! First of all. Don´t jinx me please. I love this area. Haha. We have three baptisms this saturday!!! I am so excited. Xxxx xxxx isn´t one of them though. Him and his dad are a process let me tell ya. But Satan isn´t giving up so we sure as heck aren’t. One of the investigators names is xxxxxx. He was a reference from a member in our ward. We have been teaching him for only just over two weeks and he is getting baptized! He really is that investigator that missionaries dream about. He prayed after our first lesson to know if our message and the Book of Mormon is true and the next lesson, He told us he got his answer and wants to be baptized! He is in his fifties. He has a wife and kids who are completely against his decision to be baptized but he knows that it is true and cannot change his mind. It is so amazing. But please pray for him and his family so that their hearts might be softened and they can feel of his example.
I hope Seth can make it through the season! How awful if his senior season ended in a surgery. I´ll pray for him. Nathan makes that number look better than I ever did!!!! Haha and Grant looks like a stud with a smile. Haha I have to admit, I would do anything within the confines of the commandments to be home during football season with you guys, but one important commandment is a full time mission, and I am definitely reaping the blessings already so I suppose I can wait. Haha I expect full scale reports of Utah, Nebraska, the scores of the BCS top 10 games, and random cool updates from the NFL every week please. I´m counting on you dad. Haha I love you!!!!!
Elder Hackleman
Anyway, things are going well here. Everyone is healthy and doing well. Except one minor thing with Seth. He has to have shoulder surgery. He's been dislocating it in practice. We took him into see a doctor at the same place as your knee doctor. Remember Dr. O'Malley? They said that the tendons holding it in place are shot and that he needs to have it done right after this season, if he can make it that long. The bad part is that he said it's a 6 month recovery. Anyway, they gave us a prescription for a brace that he can wear during games and practices. Seth said that it is helping him a lot! So that's a relief.
I hope you're staying healthy! You haven't had any more illness, have you?
Take care big guy! I sure do love you tiger!!
Papa
Hey dad! First of all. Don´t jinx me please. I love this area. Haha. We have three baptisms this saturday!!! I am so excited. Xxxx xxxx isn´t one of them though. Him and his dad are a process let me tell ya. But Satan isn´t giving up so we sure as heck aren’t. One of the investigators names is xxxxxx. He was a reference from a member in our ward. We have been teaching him for only just over two weeks and he is getting baptized! He really is that investigator that missionaries dream about. He prayed after our first lesson to know if our message and the Book of Mormon is true and the next lesson, He told us he got his answer and wants to be baptized! He is in his fifties. He has a wife and kids who are completely against his decision to be baptized but he knows that it is true and cannot change his mind. It is so amazing. But please pray for him and his family so that their hearts might be softened and they can feel of his example.
I hope Seth can make it through the season! How awful if his senior season ended in a surgery. I´ll pray for him. Nathan makes that number look better than I ever did!!!! Haha and Grant looks like a stud with a smile. Haha I have to admit, I would do anything within the confines of the commandments to be home during football season with you guys, but one important commandment is a full time mission, and I am definitely reaping the blessings already so I suppose I can wait. Haha I expect full scale reports of Utah, Nebraska, the scores of the BCS top 10 games, and random cool updates from the NFL every week please. I´m counting on you dad. Haha I love you!!!!!
Elder Hackleman
This week from Elder Hackleman
Elder Hackleman,
Hello, How is your week going? I had the privilege of speaking in church yesterday. I think I did ok. They had me give an update of how you are doing.
This Thursday we are having a special meeting at the stake center with a general authority. The ward council members are invited. All the stakes from the area will be coming. They are planning on the building being full. Should be fun:)
First Quorum of the Seventy Elder Lynn G. Robbins
I saw an article in the news this morning about how they are using drones to find cool monuments in Peru. I will put the story on your blog. It's kind of fun:)
We are starting to gear up for General Conference. I can't believe how much anticipation I always have for Conference. I can't wait to hear the latest and the greatest from the Church authorities. Will you be watching it at the church or how will you see conference? I remember Joel did not get to see it at all when he was on his mission. They had to wait until the conference ensign issue came out. I took the best notes I could and pouch mailed him the talks. Oh, how times have changed:)
Well, I sure love you!
Love, Mom
Good guts those are some handsome boys!!!! Nathan has my number and my cleats AND my hands!!!!! Haha Thats awesome. No mom sorry, I have no clue where my gloves are.
In regards to conference, yeah we all watch it as a stake in the stake center. Apparently, in the past, the gringos go on splits and go upstairs to watch it together in english and they usually splurge and buy some snacks and drinks to sneak up there so we make sure were alert and attentive.
For real though, I feel the same way. I have never been so excited to hear from general authorities as I have been lately. We had a multi mission conference on saturday. The Lima North and Lima West mission went and listened to Elder Tad R. Callister from the Presidency of the 70 and Elder Grow from the Area 70. It was so awesome. They talked about a bunch of awesome stuff. Elder Callister can’t speak spanish so he had a translator there to help him. The whole experience was awesome.
I am sure your talk was awesome! And I´m glad you guys had fun with the laws! It is cold here! Ok not cold but definitely not hot like Omaha right now.
Monday, 26
63° 57°
Mostly Sunny
precip 0%
Haha I love you guys. I have some awesome pics this week. The goofy one is to show all the weight I´ve lost. I´m down 4 belt loops from the MTC! Haha and it’s not because I’m starving don’t worry. I must have a tape worm or something I don’t know haha
Hello, How is your week going? I had the privilege of speaking in church yesterday. I think I did ok. They had me give an update of how you are doing.
I know your dad talks a lot about the boys football so I will not tell you the same things, but just send you pictures.
Nathan is pretty excited he has number 89. He is such a mini Jaren. His humor and mannerisms have been shocking me lately. It's like you are in the room ha ha.
We went over to the Laws last night for dinner. They had a bunch of food from the baseball tournament this weekend. We had a great time. Tim cooked us all Philly Cheese sandwiches. Yum!
So, do you know where your receiver gloves are? Nathan would love to use them, but we haven't been able to find them anywhere. Did you hide them away somewhere special? Ha Ha.
This week the temperature is suppose to be in the upper 90s all week. We are melting. At night it is only getting down to about 75. Seth's game on Friday is going to be a hot one.
Nathan is pretty excited he has number 89. He is such a mini Jaren. His humor and mannerisms have been shocking me lately. It's like you are in the room ha ha.
We went over to the Laws last night for dinner. They had a bunch of food from the baseball tournament this weekend. We had a great time. Tim cooked us all Philly Cheese sandwiches. Yum!
So, do you know where your receiver gloves are? Nathan would love to use them, but we haven't been able to find them anywhere. Did you hide them away somewhere special? Ha Ha.
This week the temperature is suppose to be in the upper 90s all week. We are melting. At night it is only getting down to about 75. Seth's game on Friday is going to be a hot one.
This Thursday we are having a special meeting at the stake center with a general authority. The ward council members are invited. All the stakes from the area will be coming. They are planning on the building being full. Should be fun:)
First Quorum of the Seventy Elder Lynn G. Robbins
I was looking through my purse this morning and found the last two Chick Fil A cards. I didn't even know I had any left. Score! I will have a sandwich today for you:)
I saw an article in the news this morning about how they are using drones to find cool monuments in Peru. I will put the story on your blog. It's kind of fun:)
We are starting to gear up for General Conference. I can't believe how much anticipation I always have for Conference. I can't wait to hear the latest and the greatest from the Church authorities. Will you be watching it at the church or how will you see conference? I remember Joel did not get to see it at all when he was on his mission. They had to wait until the conference ensign issue came out. I took the best notes I could and pouch mailed him the talks. Oh, how times have changed:)
Well, I sure love you!
Love, Mom
Good guts those are some handsome boys!!!! Nathan has my number and my cleats AND my hands!!!!! Haha Thats awesome. No mom sorry, I have no clue where my gloves are.
In regards to conference, yeah we all watch it as a stake in the stake center. Apparently, in the past, the gringos go on splits and go upstairs to watch it together in english and they usually splurge and buy some snacks and drinks to sneak up there so we make sure were alert and attentive.
For real though, I feel the same way. I have never been so excited to hear from general authorities as I have been lately. We had a multi mission conference on saturday. The Lima North and Lima West mission went and listened to Elder Tad R. Callister from the Presidency of the 70 and Elder Grow from the Area 70. It was so awesome. They talked about a bunch of awesome stuff. Elder Callister can’t speak spanish so he had a translator there to help him. The whole experience was awesome.
I am sure your talk was awesome! And I´m glad you guys had fun with the laws! It is cold here! Ok not cold but definitely not hot like Omaha right now.
Monday, 26
63° 57°
Mostly Sunny
precip 0%
Haha I love you guys. I have some awesome pics this week. The goofy one is to show all the weight I´ve lost. I´m down 4 belt loops from the MTC! Haha and it’s not because I’m starving don’t worry. I must have a tape worm or something I don’t know haha
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This goofy picture is to show 4 belt loop sizes Down |
Brothers Football Pictures
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Grant got his gear. Ready for 7th Grade Football |
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Nathan is Sporting his Brother Jaren's CollegeFootball Number 89. Proud Freshman! |
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Seth's Senior Year! |
Drones in Peru
Archaeologists use drones to map sites in Peru
Reuters Photo
Luis Jaime Castillo, a Peruvian archaeologist with Lima's Catholic University and an incoming deputy culture minister, flies a drone to take pictures of the archaeological site of San Jose de Moro in Trujillo, Peru.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Between Father and Son
Dear Elder Hackleman,
Tell us all about your birthday parties. Did they smash eggs on your head?
Saturday, on your birthday, we ended up having quite a crazy day. The battery in Trailblazer died while Seth was at football. So we went to the school to jump start it. We went to Auto Zone to buy a new one. Grant and I got it installed, but I wasn't paying attention and let the positive wire touch a wire going into the fuse panel. I didn't think anything of it until your mom, Grant and I backed out of the drive way to go to Sam's Club. I must have fried some wires. We didn't have any power to the dashboard lights, windows, air conditioning or door locks. When we got home I pulled every fuse, but none of them had been burned out. So now we have to take it in to the shop. Oh well.
Your mom was sustained as Relief Society President today in Church Sunday. She is going to be the best!!
The Allen's are moving next weekend.
I would like you to tell your Pensionista and her family how much we love them and appreciate them taking such good care of you. If we ever get to meet them, we will give them great big hugs!!
So I went with Tim Law to the Chiefs game. It was a blast! Alex did okay. The announcers were saying how they just need an offensive line and some receivers to show up and the team would be set!!!
Did all your investigators show up to your party? How is Elder Kitchens doing?
Love you son!
Pops
Hey dad! I answered alot of your questions in my email to mom but all in all, my birthday was so awesome. I got a stuffed llama and these cool pens from one of my investigators. Her name is Ruth. She’s 30. We have a baptism date set for her the 7th of september. I named my Llama Jenifer. Just so that we can have a girl in the room to talk to when times are tough. Haha Love you dad. Who did the Chiefs play? I´ll let my pensionista know but if you and mom and Joel and Ann come out, we can go visit them! Love ya.
Elder Hackleman
Tell us all about your birthday parties. Did they smash eggs on your head?
Saturday, on your birthday, we ended up having quite a crazy day. The battery in Trailblazer died while Seth was at football. So we went to the school to jump start it. We went to Auto Zone to buy a new one. Grant and I got it installed, but I wasn't paying attention and let the positive wire touch a wire going into the fuse panel. I didn't think anything of it until your mom, Grant and I backed out of the drive way to go to Sam's Club. I must have fried some wires. We didn't have any power to the dashboard lights, windows, air conditioning or door locks. When we got home I pulled every fuse, but none of them had been burned out. So now we have to take it in to the shop. Oh well.
Your mom was sustained as Relief Society President today in Church Sunday. She is going to be the best!!
The Allen's are moving next weekend.
I would like you to tell your Pensionista and her family how much we love them and appreciate them taking such good care of you. If we ever get to meet them, we will give them great big hugs!!
So I went with Tim Law to the Chiefs game. It was a blast! Alex did okay. The announcers were saying how they just need an offensive line and some receivers to show up and the team would be set!!!
Did all your investigators show up to your party? How is Elder Kitchens doing?
Love you son!
Pops
Hey dad! I answered alot of your questions in my email to mom but all in all, my birthday was so awesome. I got a stuffed llama and these cool pens from one of my investigators. Her name is Ruth. She’s 30. We have a baptism date set for her the 7th of september. I named my Llama Jenifer. Just so that we can have a girl in the room to talk to when times are tough. Haha Love you dad. Who did the Chiefs play? I´ll let my pensionista know but if you and mom and Joel and Ann come out, we can go visit them! Love ya.
Elder Hackleman
Elder Hackleman's Birthday Letter
Dear Family,
Grant! You´ll be an awesome tackle or tight end! I´m excited to hear how it goes. Nathan, Good guts bro, I wish I could be there to see you play. But I will be back in time for you to play varsity! WOO! Seth. I unfortunately will not be back in time to see you play varsity and you don´t realize how hard it is for me. I am so proud of all of you guys and how well you are doing with everything. It truly is a sacrifice being here because I miss all of you so much. But We will all be blessed in or family from the brother´s missions.
My birthday was so awesome. I love my area so much. Yes they did get me with eggs. They snuck the first one on me and after, I was a good sport since i was already gross to let everyone else who wanted to have their turn. Haha Something else they do here for birthdays is everyone who is at the party gives their thoughts and a bunch of other really nice things about the person whose birthday it is and everything. There were so many people at mine that they didn’t have time for everyone to share something so they had a representative from each family say something. It was so nice of them. A couple of the sisters sang me a song too. That was cool. Haha And Elder Kitchens came! Him being a zone leader and all, he pulled some strings. His birthday is the 26 of august! It was soo cool. The coolest part though was that a bunch of our investigators came too. We invited all of them but the whole day, I doubted that they would come but a bunch did! We have baptismal dates for 2 of them the end of this month. As a missionary, There is no better gift than the company of your investigators and to see them enjoying themselves and creating friendships within the ward.
Here are some pics from the night. The egg pic is sick! There is an egg in the air! Haha
Love you guys!
Elder Hackleman
Grant! You´ll be an awesome tackle or tight end! I´m excited to hear how it goes. Nathan, Good guts bro, I wish I could be there to see you play. But I will be back in time for you to play varsity! WOO! Seth. I unfortunately will not be back in time to see you play varsity and you don´t realize how hard it is for me. I am so proud of all of you guys and how well you are doing with everything. It truly is a sacrifice being here because I miss all of you so much. But We will all be blessed in or family from the brother´s missions.
My birthday was so awesome. I love my area so much. Yes they did get me with eggs. They snuck the first one on me and after, I was a good sport since i was already gross to let everyone else who wanted to have their turn. Haha Something else they do here for birthdays is everyone who is at the party gives their thoughts and a bunch of other really nice things about the person whose birthday it is and everything. There were so many people at mine that they didn’t have time for everyone to share something so they had a representative from each family say something. It was so nice of them. A couple of the sisters sang me a song too. That was cool. Haha And Elder Kitchens came! Him being a zone leader and all, he pulled some strings. His birthday is the 26 of august! It was soo cool. The coolest part though was that a bunch of our investigators came too. We invited all of them but the whole day, I doubted that they would come but a bunch did! We have baptismal dates for 2 of them the end of this month. As a missionary, There is no better gift than the company of your investigators and to see them enjoying themselves and creating friendships within the ward.
Here are some pics from the night. The egg pic is sick! There is an egg in the air! Haha
Love you guys!
Elder Hackleman
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A Peruvian Tradition. On your birthday everyone smashes eggs on your head. |
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This is Elder Kitchens. He was Elder Hackleman's 1st companion in Peru. He is now zone leader so he pulled some strings so he could be back in the area for Elder Hackleman's Birthday Bash. These two are Best Buds! |
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The Poster is Awesome! Even though he is 20 rather than 19:) |
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Lots of Goodies! |
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Birthday Presents From an Investigator Named Ruth |
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