one thing she told me when I testified to her of my experience in receiving the Holy Ghost. She said, "Aunt Lou, I believe it but I can't live it". She couldn't understand that Jesus Christ gives us the power to live for Him. We just have to surrender and He'll give us the power to serve Him. It's all so simple. Homer left us too several years ago. After Harold and I moved to Toledo, Homer worked for Art Iron and Wire Works, which was owned by Godfrey Schlatter. He married Josephine Frautschi and lived around the corner from us. Our children went to school together and took piano lessons from the same teacher. We were family. Haven't seen them for years. I heard that Bob was sick so I called him and sent him a copy of Sister Em's life story. She wrote it last winter when she was in North Carolina with us. After Jo died and Homer married Dorothy they hardly ever missed a reunion. I always wished that Bob, Don, Marge, and Dianne would have been able to come with them. It would sure be nice to see them all again. My sister Em was staying with us here in North Carolina last winter. She had a stroke the previous August. She was lonesome for her family so I suggested she begin writing her memoirs so she could give them to her family. She did and I think she did a good job. She is now in Christian Care Nursing Home in Bluffton. When Sister Em and Bill Moser married their first home was on Bill's old home place, a lovely old farm home on Route 24 East. I would get to be with them in the summer time. I was twelve then. Em was 24 when she got married. I enjoyed being on the farm. I got to help in the garden and even got to learn to shuck corn. They gave me 10 cents for every shuck. I did six one day and earned 60 cents. Em had a big garden that I learned to help with. She taught me a lot and I appreciated everything she taught me. God bless her. We use to can vegetable soup and so many other things. I enjoyed those days when I could be on the farm. I was so thankful I could be able to have my sister after her stroke and that Gene let us have her for those months. They lived there for five years, I think, then moved to Bluffton and Bill went into the oil business. Em gave a good account in her memoirs. When I was a teenager, Bill and Em invited to go with them to Wyoming. He had business with Bridger Oil Basin Company. I remember a lot of people invested in that project. We had to stop in Fort Wayne because Bill had business to attend to before we left for Wyoming. Em, Gene, and I were parked close to the Embassy Theater and waited for 12 hours. Em sewed carpet rags and I tried to entertain Gene. Finally Em told me to take Gene to the movies. It was a real long wait but we finally got going and had a nice trip and saw a lot of sights. Sister Em had to wait many times. Bill was gone most of the time during those years on Orchard Ridge. I remember sister Em had a club hid in the bushes so when she had to come home alone she would have it if someone tried to attack her. She was brave but underneath I wonder how fast her heart would beat when she was alone at night in that big house. Gene Moser took over his Dad's responsibilities at National Oil and has added many new gas stations throughout the state. His Dad would be proud of his efforts to continue to help his company grow. Em gave a good account of her grandchildren and family in her memoirs. My sister, Marie, was eight years older than I. She was one of a kind. Beautiful, everyone enjoyed being with her. When you visited her she would stop what she was doing and had only time for you. She generally popped corn and enjoyed the company. She was special. Before Ernie and Marie started having children, they bought a nice home on Hamilton Drive in Fort Wayne. They lived there all of their married life. Marie was a good homemaker and loved company. They both worked at Dudlo, a place that made coils for six years before they had children. Then they had Ernie Junior, Jackie, Connie, and Becky. I have happy memories of that place. Ernie and Marie were both so hospitable. Ernie was real smart and invented instruments for the company. Later he worked at Phelps Dodge. One time when he was working at Phelps Dodge and had two children, Ernie Junior and Jackie, the plant went on strike. The company sent Ernie to Connecticut to another company to fill orders. He decided that instead of living in a hotel, he would take his family and they could all be together for the summer. They asked me to go along to help with the children. Ernie Junior was five or six. Jackie was one and cuter than a button. I used to pretend that I was her Mother. Later God gave me two daughters of my own. He knew how much I wanted a family. When I was real young, I said I wanted ten children and no man. That's about how I ended up, so be careful what you ask for. We spent the summer in New Haven, Connecticut. It was really nice there and Ernie took us so many places. When we went out to eat, Marie always managed to pick up part of the tip. She thought that Ernie tipped too much. I remember I had long hair and had it up in a knot with hairpins when Ernie wanted me to go on a roller coaster with him. It was the worst one I'd ever been on. When I got off, I had lost all of my hairpins and I looked like I had just come out of the jungle. In those days women kept their hair neat. Ernie Junior was a character. He was a smart kid and was always doing the unexpected. We couldn't keep up with him. We had a wonderful vacation and I was so happy to get to be included. When we got back my friends sang, "Lulu's back in town". I had never heard the song before and I didn't like it because I never liked my name. My sister Fan named me after her friend Lula Jahn, Ralph Jahn's sister. When we got back I wanted to work in Fort Wayne and I still had enough time before school started. I saw a sign in the window of the Indiana Hotel that said "Help Wanted", so I walked around the block several times before I had the nerve to go in. I got hired and could start the next day. My job was to walk around with a container of hot rolls in front of me to serve the people. The hotel was right beside the Emboyd Theater. They later changed the name to Embassy and it's still there. Anyway, I worked there the rest of my vacation or until school started. While I was there my boss noticed that I couldn't see across the room. People were motioning for me to come to their table and I couldn't see them. The next day, he sent me to an eye doctor and the world looked completely different when I got my new glasses. I could hardly believe all I had been missing. While I worked there, I stayed at Marie and Ernie's. Ernie and Marie had two other girls. Ernie named Connie after someone that worked in his office. They named her Constance Joy Hurt and she was a real joy to us. When Connie was about seven, she got a touch of polio or at least that's what they thought. We knew a chiropractic student from Switzerland that was going to school in Fort Wayne. He helped Connie and she got over whatever it was that she had. Marie worked for Phil Clauss at the Hobby House Restaurant. She was a head waitress and would seat people. She could speak and understand Swiss, so when these Swiss students came to the restaurant they didn't know that she could understand them. When they heard her speak they were naturally surprised and happy to hear their language. From then on they were our friends. They came to church with us and through the years after they went back to Switzerland, continued to keep in touch. Connie married Stan Clauss, Phil Clauss's nephew. Stan and Connie have two daughters, Marialynn and Jennifer, and two adopted sons, Matthew and Nathan. She told me one time she wanted an international family, children from different races. She had a good start with her two black sons. She entered nurses training and now is a registered nurse. Great accomplishment, Connie. Ernie and Marie's third daughter, Rebekah Lou, was a little black haired beauty that Marie dearly loved. I remember Marie would use ivory soap to wash Becky's hair and it would have a wonderful shine. Black as coal and shine like a dollar. Ernie was the first person we knew that took home movies. He always had a big carrying case with all his camera equipment and he took movies of everyone. We looked forward to the times when he would show them to us. He had cartoons too that were special for the children. Everyone was so happy when we knew that Ernie and Marie were coming. If anyone knows where those movies are, I sure would enjoy seeing them again. Ernie and Bill Moser were going to go into business together. Bill was going to get the old Red Cross building on West Washington Street and he and Ernie were going to have a factory. Ernie knew everything about making coils from working with Phelps Dodge for years. So that was their plan. Something happened and the plan fell through and after that Ernie had a nervous breakdown and we never really knew the reason that everything ended like that. Rebekah married Paul Glass and they live in Fort Wayne. They have opened their home to so many people and have had many showers, anniversary parties and Christian get-togethers in their home that I'll never forget or at least haven't yet. I guess we never know how long we'll remember the things of the past. The most important thing to remember anyway is that Jesus is our Lord and Savior and He promised to come back to take us home with Him if we accept His plan of salvation and keep our hearts open to received all He has for us. Jackie Lee was born on Valentine's Day and was a little sweetheart. I'll never forget when she was born. Marie and Ernie's first little girl. Like I said before, when I would get to take care of her, I would pretend like I was her Mother. She married a special young man, Freddie, and they have five sons. I remember when she was first expecting a child. I thought she would have a little girl, so I sent her little girls dresses that my girls had outgrown. She has little granddaughters now. So happy for you, Jackie and Freddie, and your nice family. Ernie Junior met his wife, Phyllis, while he worked at the Emboyd Theater. After they married, they had two boys and two girls and have a nice home and land on the banks of the St. Mary's River south of Fort Wayne. They both worked hard. Phyllis worked many years in Fort Wayne to help. God bless her. Marie liked her so much. We were all so heartbroken when their son, Steve, left us. I wish Hammy, Linda, and Cindy would show up at our next reunion. I remember after I had the experience of receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost and had given my testimony to the Toledo Apostolic Christian Church, my nephew, Homer Reineck, who was the preacher followed me into the hall and said,"Aunt Lou, your testimony sounds just like Elmer Gerber's". Elmer had sent all of the preachers of the Apostolic Christian Church a copy of his testimony, so I didn't waste much time going to Bluffton to look up Elmer. When I got there, his wife was in the yard. Her name was Emma and she told me to go into the house that Elmer was there. I did and when I saw him, I told him that Homer told me that my testimony was the same as what he had sent to all the preachers. He was surprised and pleased but he told me not to say anything in front of his wife because she was so against him for passing out his testimony to all the preachers. She came into the house and surmised that we were talking about his testimony and she said "I want you to know that what Elmer did, I'm against."She didn't realize that she wasn't against Elmer, she was against God giving Elmer the Holy Spirit the way he should have received it when he first was converted and went into the Apostolic Church. Several years later when I lived in Bluffton, I had my insurance with Elmer's son, and I called his sons' office one day and Elmer answered so I had a chance to talk with him. I ask him if he had ever heard of a man named William Branham. He said, "Oh yes, I've read some of his