Dear Elder Alex,
Yes, it's tax day, but we got ours sent in a few days ago, so it's just a nice Sabbath day. I was going to be taking off today after church with Kirk to help him get set up in his married student housing apartment, but he got an email just yesterday from the school saying that they wouldn't allow him to live in that housing since he doesn't have the visa yet. I'm not so upset about the decision as I am the fact that they waited until two days before school starts to let him know. He's already put money down and signed a contract with them, so now we have to figure things out. I have to make some mean mommy phone calls tomorrow to the school and see what we can do about it. So he's going to wait to leave until tomorrow since he doesn't even know where he's going to live. It's a little bit of a mess.
I had a nice Sunday. The weather's great. We just went on a walk. Kristina and Leah are at a youth fireside. Bishop Bingham has those once a month, so they come up frequently. Every other one, he just has the 14 and up gang. Today at church all the priests sang. There were 18 guys up there singing. It's an impressively large group.
Kristina had a great time at her first prom. The guys really did a good job planning it. For the day date, they came and blindfolded the girls for the first 45 minutes of the date. Kristina had no idea where she was. Then all of a sudden they picked her up and set her into what she thought was a sled on an incline. Two girls were in the sled and their dates got in and pushed off. Down the hill they went when all of a sudden they were in water. Kristina said the girls were screaming. Then they could hear the guys rowing when they ran into ground again. The dates picked them out of the boat and set them on some rocks. Then all of a sudden they could hear police officers on their megaphones yelling to them that they weren't allowed to be there. So the guys took the blindfolds off. Preston Tiegs then rowed back over and spoke with the officers telling them that his dad owned land in there and he had to get hold of one of his parents to prove it. Then all was well and they all had a picnic lunch on this little island. Afterwards they rowed back over and took the girls home.
That night they all met at our house for pictures. Most of them as you can see were outside. From there they went to PF Chang's and then to the dance. After the dance they went to Myler's for pazookies (which are now a crowd favorite) I think we were the first ones to have them at our house after a dance.
We had the missionaries over to our house last night too amid all this. One is from Samoa and the other from American Samoa originally. It was fun having them for dinner and dad gave them cans of Spam as a going away gift. They were pretty excited about that. I told them they could come by our house any time when they ran low on Spam. They said they would.
Last night we also went to Jake and Kayla's wedding reception. Devin and Dallas were both there and pretty much most of the 6th, 8th, 9th wards. Dallas says he's now going to Hawaii to sell security systems because his dad is going there to do the same thing. I guess Royce is having a hard time with jobs with now. They will be there for a couple months and the entire family will even go to Hawaii for a few weeks of that time. Sounds pretty fun to me.
At the reception I talked with Bro. and Sis. Borup. He's so funny. He told me to tell you that he is planning on having the first date with you when you get home, so he's keeping the third week of August open for you. He says to count on it! I told him I'd tell you so that you can put it on your calendar.
Last week we spent a lot of our time going to lax games. Both Kristina and Leah have great teams this year and win most of the time. At one of the games I got to see Jill Erickson. She looked really good and happy. She said she's engaged and will be getting married in December and showed me his picture. Eli is frustrated because he hasn't been able to get his travel visa yet. I think he's being sent to Texas.
Were you able to get answers to your questions about signing up for classes? Let me know if there's anything I can do on my end.
Sean is coming home this week for the summer and has a few more finals to get through first. So we'll switch out Kirk for Sean this week.
How was your week? Have you been able to make any progress with any of your investigators? I know that must be frustrating when people aren't responding. I'm frustrated that I can't make any headway with Maria, but I'm learning patience. Have you been able to teach Drew?
I love that you're doing so much service for people. I think about how Christ served so many people yet many of those people were not converted, they were just loved. You're doing what Christ would do and being a disciple of Christ should be our goals. It's all a part of our mission as members of the tribe of Israel and more specifically the tribe of Ephraim.
I asked the elders this question when they were here yesterday...how often do you run into people who have never heard of our church? Just curious.
Well, Kristina and Leah just got home. They had a fun time. They had to act out one of the talks from conference. They said their team didn't do too well but they still had fun.
Just so you know, right now Kirk and Sarah have a date set of June 22nd. They changed it since last week, but we're really hopeful that they will get the visa and be able to move forward. Our family and Sarah's family all fasted today asking for the visa to move along quickly. I'll keep you posted on that and on Kirk's BYU-I housing dilemma.
I hope you have a great week. Keep the pictures coming. We love those! Let me know if there's every anything I can do on my end to help you...pray, email and chat with someone, etc. I love feeling a little part of your mission.
Love you,
Mom xxoo
Nikki relaxing on the porch with a wet towel and rocks over her eyes.
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