INVESTMENT BETTER THAN SILVER OR GOLD!

I was reflecting on the death of my dear friends, Wanda Gustafson and Ray Sharp. Gold, silver, and real estate are nice to have for economic security while we walk the earth, but they do nothing to make us secure for eternity. In Revelation 20 – 22, it goes into a lot of detail about heaven and the incredible beauty with streets paved with gold. That reminds me of the story of the man that spent his life accumulating a fortune in gold. When he died he tried to get Saint Peter to allow him to come into heaven with his bags of gold. Saint Peter said, “We can’t let you in with those bags. Why would you want to bring in pavement anyway?”
Nothing in this life is worth missing heaven. It says in Revelation 21:4-8, “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away…He that overcomes shall inherit all things and I will be his God, and he shall be my child...But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the doers of evil, and murderers, and those that have sex outside of marriage, and those that use and traffic in drugs, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and lava, which is the second death.”
I used to be guilty of some of the sins mentioned above. But, praise be to God, I am “born again” and a “new creature” in Christ that does not do any of those old things anymore. I don’t want to miss heaven!

Gold and Silver Best Investment to Beat Inflation

Inflation is eating us up. Every time the Federal Reserve increases the fake money supply by 10%, we have an additional 10% inflation. Our national debt grows by about 40 billion dollars per month! Over the last six years, bank savings accounts, stocks, bonds, CD’s, money market accounts—NONE have kept up with inflation. During this time gold and silver have done nicely. Silver has outdone gold and will continue to do so. Steve Hommel, one of the leading authorities on silver, pointed out this week that with industry using up the above ground silver supply, we have less now than at any time in the last 600 years!! The United States government ran out last year and had to buy silver overseas in order to mint the silver dollars and proof sets it sold to the public. Buy some gold and silver before it is too late. It is going to go to the moon in price! Gold and silver are the only things that have never been worthless in value since the creation of man!!

Wanda Gustafson, Obituary

Wanda Gustafson
January 15, 1943 – January 21, 2007

Wanda was born to Earl and Wilma Beshers on January 15, 1943, in the town of El Centro, California. The family moved to Riverside, California, where she was raised. Wanda was married to Curt Gustafson on May 6, 1961 and they had three children, a daughter, Kathy, and two sons, Curtis, and Keith. Wanda was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Her children bore children of their own and grandchildren. Wanda is survived by all of them. The most important things to her in life were her love of God and her family.
Wanda was an organizer and an encourager. She was creative and always happy. She was a pastor and teacher. Her childhood dream was to become a missionary. In 1976 she became a Sunday School Minister. She packed a school bus with parents and children for two years and had over a hundred children in Sunday school. The most meaningful highlight of her life was when God fulfilled her dream and sent her to Douglas, Arizona, as a missionary with her husband Curt. While there, she helped build an orphanage in Naco, Mexico for the little impoverished children there. On the other side of the border, in Douglas, she started the Mountain View Christian School with the Atkinson’s. The first year Wanda began with just pre-school children, but over the years it grew through grade twelve. She taught in the Christian school faithfully and led many young people to the Lord during that time. She later helped pastor the church in Douglas with her husband Curt. While in Douglas, Wanda influenced all three of their children to move there and she was able to help all of them with a closer walk in the Lord. In 2001, Wanda moved with her husband Curt to Phoenix where they helped the Atkinson’s who where starting charter schools at the time. Wanda became a faithful teacher and the spiritual counselor for staff and students alike. She helped with her husband Curt to lead many young people to the Lord and assist them with many of the trials they were going through in life. During the last few years of her life she helped the Atkinson’s develop the Mountain View Christian Home School program. She helped home school students with their curriculum, and led many of them to the Lord as well as some parents. She also encouraged them to achieve their goals and dreams. An incredible panoramic painting covering the wall of the Mountain View School office is still there as a lasting testimony to Wanda’s painting skills and her vision for young people.
In 1996 Wanda was diagnosed with cancer and given only two years to live, but God extended her life for 11 more years with perfect health, until it was time to take her home to heaven. While in the hospital last year she led many to the Lord, including her nurse, who knelt at her bed and invited Jesus into her heart! Wanda’s greatest passion in life was being a SOUL WINNER. Soul winners will “shine like the stars forever and ever.” Daniel 12:3

Elk

We saw the most incredible herds of elk east of Reedsport, Oregon. There were at least 3 herds with eighty or more elk in each herd! The bulls were next to the road. We never saw so many elk in one place and so close Awesome!!

Battery Trouble

Stranded in my motor home, I found out the importance of keeping battery cables clean. It took a lot of work on a weekend to find 6 volt deep cycle batteries. Battery acid ate through brass eyelets and cables! Baking soda and water cleaned them, but they still need replaced. I am looking for something to put on them that prevent this devastating corrosion!

Silver as an Investment

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Reuters News Agency today said that gold and silver reached new seven week highs. I was thinking back just six years ago when I was buying Morgan 100 year old silver dollars at around $4 each. Today they are about $13 each. They have approximately one ounce (slightly less) of silver in each dollar. I could have bought a nice condo in Phoenix for about $80,000 six years ago and sold it for about $120,000 today. A nice profit of $40,000 in six years! Not bad--but my silver dollars would bring me more if I sold them today. Six years ago the condo money would have bought 20,000 Morgan silver dollars. Today they are worth $13 each=$260,000 or about a quarter of a million dollar profit!! And I'm still trying to get friends and family to buy silver dollars. They still aren't near as high as they were in 1980 with silver at $50 per ounce! Today silver closed at only $13.17 per ounce. Because of 26 years inflation silver would have to go much higher than $50 per ounce now to exceed the price of 1980!

Gold & Silver

The Lord showed me in a vision that we are living in the same time as Joseph in Egypt. He said their will be 7 years of plenty (whether exact years or not or just a period of time) and then 7 years of famine. Joseph told Pharoah to get all the grain he could and store it in preparation for the 7 years of famine. Since the dawn of time gold and silver are the only commodities that have never lost their value. Save as much gold and silver as you can before the days of famine begin. If you do so, you will have plenty during the lean years. Be wise.