Busy, busy

April 17, 2011

Dear Elder Alex,

It's pretty late at night and I'm tired, so I may get up early and write a little more. Toni has been here this weekend. She flew up and went to a lacrosse ref certification camp and now she's here with us until Tues. Tonight we went to the Danny and Penny Rozsa's since it was Jake's farewell and lots of the Rozsa's were in town. It was a lot of fun visiting with everyone there and Toni was able to see them all too. I'll send pictures Monday morning.

Church was great today. The speakers in sacrament were so good, Bro. Childer's from the high council, his son Alex(12 yrs old) and a girl who just returned from her mission to Florida. She was an excellent speaker too. There was a very strong spirit in the meeting. Then in Sunday School, Bro. Randy Thompson taught and he always does such an amazing job. He just has a way with words and is able to bring out such good discussion and I love going to class. Then in RS, Susan Madsen taught the lesson on honesty and once again we had great discussion. Very uplifting 3 hours.

After church I went to find Diane Beagley because this is their last week in our ward. They are moving to Star, which isn't very far, but they've been in our ward so long and are very sad about moving. She was having a hard time today. We will really miss them in our ward.

This week I set up a web page on missionsite.com where I'm keeping all your letters and some of your pictures from your mission. That way, anyone that wants to can go to that page and look at any of your current or past letters and pictures. Austin and Cameron already have a site set up, and I finally got around to it. Once I set it up, it automatically links your page with anyone else who's serving in Nashville. I looked at the links and noticed one of my friends from California had a daughter serving there, but I think she was Spanish speaking. Her name is Sister Bounds from Orange CA. But then I also noticed she was finishing her mission this month, so now I can't even have you say hi.

We had a busy weekend. Nikki had her big concert on Saturday night at the Cathedral of the Rockies, I taught a class for Super Saturday for our ward RS on Saturday morning and I had fun with Toni on Friday. We're both helping my sister Jan get ready to go to quilt market in a few weeks, so we were busy with some projects we're working on. It's fun having Toni here and it makes me wish she lived closer to us.

Kirk is ironing out all the details of his internship to Uganda. He's leaving in just 2 weeks. It's hard to believe he'll be over in Africa. Sean should be coming home this weekend for Easter and then heading back to Provo for spring semester.

Tomorrow Toni is going to help Kristina's lacrosse team with their practice and teach them a couple new plays, then we're off to Leah's game down at Ann Morrison. Seems like we're constantly at lacrosse games these days. But now that the weather is warming up, it's much nicer to be at the games.

So how's Jerry Bowman doing? Did he ever read or listen to the conference talk you gave him? It must be kind of fun, or at least it breaks up any monotony when you travel and do splits with other missionaries. I'm sure every missionary has his or her own style of teaching, but the spirit can work through anyone's style if they know how to call upon the spirit and how to be well prepared before each meeting.

Here's something from sacrament meeting that I wrote down today: It's a quote from Elder Hales. "If you want to speak to the Lord, you must say your prayers. If you want to hear what the Lord says, you must read your scriptures." I loved that and it made me think. It might be something that would be helpful for your investigators especially if they have a hard time committing to reading the scriptures and only want to pray and get answers, or even vice versa.

Well, my eyes are stinging. It must be time to end the typing. We are all well here and we are working hard and playing hard. I love the feeling at night after a day of wonderful feelings, revelations, church work, family visiting, etc. There's nothing better than that kind of tired-a good Sabbath day tired.

I send you all my love, always. You mean the world to me.

Be happy, then help others be happy.

Love,

mom

XXOO