29 Jun 2008

June 29, 2008
Dear Elder Sean,
How was your week? Hope the protests have all settled down. Here in Eagle we don't get much of that kind of action. I'm ok with that. The only place you have to wait in line for gas here is at Costco because they tend to have prices that are about 10cents lower than anywhere else. We're at about $4.07 a gallon here. That's about $75 to fill up the car. Suburbans take about $130 to fill. We definitely think twice before taking the car out anywhere.

I should be getting the Eagle missionary newsletter this week, so I'll get that out to you. The Flakes finally sold their house after 18 months and are moving to SLC next week. So Madison will be coming home to a brand new area and house.

I loved your ice cream story with Alexi. Very funny.

I hope this doesn't make you jealous, but take a look below:

(pictures of ticket stubs for Brian Regan)
Dad and I went to see him last night. We went with the Beagleys and the Hugentoblers. The Pinders sat right in front of us. It was soooo funny. It was all new material and his warm up act was just as funny. It was great seeing him live. All his funny body movements and walking back and forth across the stage as he talks. For his encore people just shouted out routines from the audience and he did them. So he did the UPS (weight and girth please) and the elevator. Most of us had tears in our eyes from laughing so hard. We'll try to have his new CD here when you come home.

Today in church they read a letter from our Stake Presidency asking all of us to turn off our TV's for 4 weeks starting July 6th. Most of us just sat there in shock. Bro. Cameron was so funny about it. He was one of the speakers for today. He kept saying that he was going to look for a legal loophole to get out of it. After Sunday School, he said he may have to upgrade his Tivo so it can hold more shows. He was making us all laugh. Anyway, this should be interesting. We don't watch too much TV here now, just at night. So I don't think it will be too hard, but I will have to switch up my bedtime routine. Boring TV helps me to fall asleep, so I'll have to come up with something else. They also asked us to read 500,000 pages as a stake from any good books. We'll keep you posted on how things are going with that.

This week we're getting ready for the Lutz's to come to town. Jeff's dad has prostate cancer, so they want to make as many visits as they can. I'm happy they are staying with us. Kirk and Mary will come home this Thursday also and stay for the 4th of July weekend. I can't believe it's already the 4th again. Seems like I was just writing you about going to the Jones's for fireworks last year. Sometimes time really does fly by and other times, it just creeps.

I've been keeping up with my Book of Mormon challenge, STOMP. I absolutely love reading 1st and 2nd Nephi. If I didn't have any other scripture in the world, those 2 books would fill my soul. I'm sure many converts receive their witnesses of it's truthfulness just from those first 2 books.

Friday dad and I went to Jordan and Sandy's wedding, then their reception that night at our building. Sandy was very funny. She made a deal with her mom that she could take her wedding dress off at 8pm and change into jeans. Sure enough, that's what she did. So for the last hour of the reception, she was just in t-shirt and jeans. At the reception I saw Linda Robertson, who looks great and is engaged to a man who got baptized just yesterday. She's very happy. Monica was there with her new 2 week old baby and Eric was there with his wife and their little 1 yr old. Monte Moore and his wife and baby were also there. It was great talking with them.

We just finished an evening of family games. Nikki and Leah were so funny playing pictionary junior. They both had an all play, so they took the card and went of the room, came back in and then they drew their best rendition of candy. They both drew a piece of candy that looked great. The only problem was that the word was actually Canada. We laughed so hard. I love playing games. I think you already know that about me.

Well, better sign off, so dad can write a little bit. I love you, Sean, and know each thing you are asked to do there will prepare you for greater things in the future. Learn as much as you can from everything you are asked to do, even if it seems mundane. Learn to hear and act on the promptings you receive. That will be a gift in your life.

We are well here and as always, you are in our prayers constantly.
Much love,
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