Lois's Later Life

    Well, since the last message, After Mel started to come to church I made sure he was invited to all the church activities, by inviting him myself. Seldom was he unable to attend. For five straight months he did not ask me out on a date!! My brother Frikkie  (nick-name for Roland Frederick) knew how I felt about Mel, and he saw the way Mel often looked at me and knew he was attracted, (Mel later admitted that when we were in church he would often send side-long glances at me and wish, I never  saw that!) so he asked Mel straight out why he didn't ask me. Mel told him he was right, but he felt I would not go out wth him because I was better educated than  he. Frikkie told him he knew I would accept. So Mel
took his advice and neither one of us dated another person from that day to this. Mel was not a whit behind me in education because he was very well read. He learned at very early age to love books. Soon he was reading his father's "Popular Mechanics" and "Popular Science" magazines. He was readng Tarzan books while his cousin of he same age was reading Enid Blyton Children's stories. Wow! What a guy!!
    We started dating just before New Year. That evening we had a New Years Party ay my parents' house while we waited to welcome the New Year. When the clock struck 12.00 EVERYONE looked at Mel and me as we shared our very first, most chaste kiss, which was loudly applauded. Now we were definitely boy/girl friends just five months after I got home from College. One day, just a few days after
New Year we were sitting on the grass outside and talking about the need for baptism. His parents were away on vacation and he felt they might disapprove, so I asked him, "Who are going to please? Your parents or God." He sat quietly the  said, "I need to go and talk to your Dad" (whom he called Uncle Jimmy). A little while later he came back and said, "I've asked Uncle Jimmy to baptize me." Our little congregation was meeting in rooms at the primary school nearby so Dad called my grandfather, at another congregation, and asked if we could use their baptistry (Granny and Grandpa lived next door to that church) so we piled into the car and Mel became a child of God! Been faithful ever since.