RyanMTew

8 September 2017 Dear Family, Missionaries and Friends, Sometime around the beginning of 2016 - I do not remember exactly when - I started writing a letter each week to the missionaries in the California Long Beach Mission.  Since they were required to write to me every week, it seemed fair for me to write to them also.  With all of the benefits of hindsight, I wish now that I had started writing to them earlier in my three-year mission.   Once Melanie and I returned home in July, 2016, I have sometimes considered writing again once a week to people who are important to me - including missionaries.  On two or three occasions I have even written a first weekly letter to get myself started.  But I never sent the letters.  With all of the benefits of hindsight, I now wish that I had begun sooner. As President Dieter F. Uchtdorf has said, the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago; but the second best time to plant a tree is today. ...