What can I say......a Grandmother is just out there.....This is Alex with a picture of his last baptism and a picture of him with a lady missionary from El Salvador that he thinks he can't live with out!!!!! What is the answer to this.....I wish I knew....I only know when my mother insisted she take a baby Navajo girl and raise her in our family.......it was a disaster......Linda was raised feeling she was a white child like all of us, but when it came time for school dances, proms etc. No white boy was here friend, no Navajo boys around and she was left with the Mexican boys in town........ which she was not happy with.......It only got worse as she got older.....I know things have changed a lot in the past years and many mixed cultures try to work it out........Alex we do have many, many, many darling girls in Utah........His parents are picking him up in Brazil a week from today and her mission ends in July.....so we shall see how it ends........
It may be painful for us to see our children modifying or even rejecting ideas that were important to us and adopting others that could never be comfortable for us. But out of that difference may come the reinforcement of two other important values.....One is tolerance, and other is awareness that people who disagree over the things they hold dear really can live together in love and respect.......It may be differing about some of what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values....IT IS....WHAT IT IS.....and .THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON, JUST BELIEVE!.
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