Early Sunday Morning April 10

Good Morning!

Another busy week has passed by and it looks more and more as if spring finally is going to show up.

Tuesday we had our monthly gathering for all officers, cadets and managers. Those are very important days when we all meet for fellowship, information and sharing..

During this week we have also been able to send out information about the placemants for the cadets during their field training. The cadets have for a longer time been waiting to know about their nearest future. This weekend the cadets are taking part in a conference in Helsinki together with cadets from the other Nordic countries.

Tuesday we were visited by three ladies from Norrköping in Sweden bringing suitcases with things needed for our Social Center in Riga.Here you can see the visiting ladies together with the staff at the center unpacking one of the suitcases.

 

And some personal stuff::

Earlier this year we attended the funeral of Ruth´s last aunt Karin.She was 99 years old. Among her belongings we found a letter from Ruth´s grandmother sent to General Evangeline Booth. In the letter she is thanking for the silver star given to all mothers when their sons or daughters enter the School for Officers Training. In the letter she also tells about her life with seven children at the time when her husband died. One after the other they moved out and the only one who stayed in Ramdala was Karin who most of her life played the organ at the local Mission Church. Ruth´s grandmother tells that all seven of the children are serving God in different places and in different ways.Four of the children became Salvation Army Officers. Gunnar in America and Erik, Hertie and Mirjam (Ruth´s mother) in Sweden. Ruth´s grandmother really needed her children to stay at home and help supporting the family but one after the other said that God had called them to become an officer in the Salvation Army. Grandmother´s answer was allways "when God has called you you must go.

I also received a video were our second oldest grandson (11 years old) played in his second concert with the Brass Band. The concert was held in Denmark and the grandson is number two from the left at the rear. His father, who happens to be our oldest son, is seen in the middle playing soprano cornet.



Today (Sunday) our second oldest son plays the final game in the top Floorball division in Norway,

Saturday we had a day off and went down to Lithuania and we saw good news. We saw that several storches had returned after the winter. Spring must be on its way!

Have a blessed week!
Peter Baronowsky