{The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Canada
Waterloo, Ontario}
May 16, 1926
Dear Mother:
I have just got back from Galt, where I preached to-day. It is nearly 10 o’clock and I am somewhat tired, so I will have to cut my letter short to-night. But this will let you know that we are all well and kicking along as usual. We had a bright, nice warm day to-day. It was almost too nice, as it enticed many to go junketing in their automobiles and neglect the Church service. I don’t think I had more than 30 out this morning and not more than 50 to-night. But the Church is small and no great effort was required in preaching. This afternoon the people with whom I was staying took me out for a jaunt in their Ford car. It was an old model and somewhat out of date, but “it took us there and brought us back”. Next Sunday I am to preach in Bridgeport again and administer communion to my confirmation class and the English members of the congregation. The weather here has been quite spring-like for the last 3 or 4 days. I let my furnace go out about the middle of the week and have had no occasion to start it up again since. If this continues I will have almost a ton of coal to start the furnace up with in the fall. I hope that this will be the case as I have paid out over $230 for fuel during the past year. I had my garden ploughed the first of last week and started planting on the 14th. I have over
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half of it in now and hope to be able to finish it up this week. But as it is dry and dusty I don’t expect anything to come up until we get a good warm rain. Our Seminary will close on the 20th, and this week will be taken up largely with examinations. I have had only one so far and will have quite a number this week. Marion passed her late examinations with honours, so I am in hopes that she will get through without having to stand the Entrance Exams. In that case we will probably be able to leave here on our Southern trip somewhere around the 20th of June.
Bonnie is feeling much better since she came back from her trip and seems ever so much better satisfied with home. But, I think, she should have stayed away longer. Our Board of Governors at its meeting some time ago decided to call Missionary Ernst Neudoerffer to take Dr. Hoffmann’s place. But in answer to their cablegram he said he could not consider a call before 1927 in the fall of that year. The Board is to meet again this week; but I don’t know what they will do in the matter. We will all be glad to see Pastor and Mrs. Bockelmann back again this week. On Friday night Dr. and Mrs. Zinck gave a dinner to the graduating class of the Seminary and the Seminary Faculty. It was a good feed and we spent quite an enjoyable evening. Herman went fishing twice last week and brought back some eight or ten fish each time. They weren’t very large, but were good. The Oratorical Contest of the College School was held on Wednesday night last and passed off creditably. Our Synod will meet at Hamilton June 1 following. I am on for a sermon and for a number of reports. After it is over I hope to enter upon the enjoyment of my vacation. As Dr. Krauss will be away in Europe I will, I think, let up for a while on my correspondence course. I have so far completed 19 of the 23 courses. But I must stop here. With love to you all, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little.
