Writing from SLC

Sept. 4, 2011
Dear elder alex,
I'm sitting here in g & g thompson's basement writing you on the iPad. Kirk just took off with his girlfriend, sarah to go walk around temple square for a little bit. Yes, I said girlfriend. He met her on the plane from Nairobi to Uganda and they've been in constant contact ever since. She drove all the way down here to Utah from Canada to see him. We've finally met her and we all like her a lot. We'll keep you posted on how things go there.

We spent yesterday in Provo. We went on a hike to Stewart falls in sundance. You start out by riding on the chairlift, which was a beautiful ride. The hike was probably an intermediate level and I was proud of Nikki for making it the whole way. She complained that her legs were shaking, but she kept going. I'll send some pictures.

Afterwards we spent the day at steves watching byu win against ole-miss and then bsu won against Georgia. It was a good day. Axel and Laura came over. She looks like she's going to burst any moment. We were hoping the twins would be born while we were here. No such luck. They won't let her go past the 13th. Also Jen was there with little James , whose actually not so little. He has cute double and triple rolls of fat on his arms and legs. We also saw david lutz and his girlfriend, and lindee. Kassi went on the hike with us and Dakota is getting her papers ready to turn in for her mission.

Everyone says hi. Dakota wants me to start sending her your letters. I guess carolina hasn't been sharing your letters with her. She's very excited to get going on a mission.

So how has your week been? It's definitely feeling like fall now with the kids in school.  The family is remembering funny stories about you right now, like when you asked me if I was faking it when I was walking down from bearing testimony where i had cried a little bit in Hilton head. Anyway, we're having some good laughs while I'm writing. 

On Saturday Tyler trumbo got married to his girlfriend leticia. She's from Mexico and doesn't know much English, and now they're moving back to San Antonio Texas where she won't need much English. He sent a picture from their wedding and they look very happy. Tyler was in his navy dress uniform, the white one with the blue neckerchief.

Tomorrow we're helping around here, picking grapes, etc. I'm going with grandma to pick out new appliances for their upstairs kitchen which got flood damage from a leak. So they're redoing their kitchen with new cabinets, counters, etc. It will be very nice for them.

Since I'm writing on the iPad, I don't have pictures to send you, but when we get home, I'll send you some.  I hope you are doing well, finding people to teach and enjoying meeting and talking with people. It's all good missionary work.  

You're in our prayers always, you have so many people just in our trumbo Thompson family alone who love you and care about you. 

Have a great week and remember your blessings.
Love you, mom xxoo