At this time I want to write about Duncan
Biddle. He is Carol’s boyfriend. I personally love the young man very much
because he is a special spirit. He spent last summer at the Lake
(Payette) with us and we all enjoyed him so much. He has regularly attended
church with us this entire year. We accept him as a dear friend and literally a
member of our family. We have felt pride in his accomplishments as a student,
football player, a wrestler, a skier, etc. He is now meeting with the
missionaries and growing in the Gospel. He has fine parents and brother and
sisters who have enjoyed a close family relationship but he now feels concern
for them regarding the Word of Wisdom. He has been offered a scholarship to the
U. of W. to play football but he told us tonight
that he intends to go to the BYU after much prayer. This is a difficult
decision for him because his father distinguished himself in playing football
at the U. of W. and he would like to please his
father.
I really
“feel” for this choice young man – that he will confront the “issues of life”
as we now experience them and make decisions that will tear him apart from his
family unless they choose to follow. He has also found that his best friend now
wants to compromise his life in many ways – according to the world – which he
cannot accept. Duncan
has also seen fit to confide in Norma about his feelings for Carol.
I pray that
we, as a family, will support him in a way that he will always find a haven
here. It is this experience that indicates to me that the power of the family
is unbelievable. Just by being ourselves but by openly demonstrating our love
and concern for others we can do a great missionary work.
What a blessing it would be if we all, as a family,
could be called on a mission. How I pray it will be in the Celestial Kingdom as
I envision it to be, that what we enjoy now will be so magnified many times and
that we can all be called together to function as a family in various endeavors
– even to the time we will become creators of new worlds, and be engaged always
in that which “will bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man”. 
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