This letter requires a preface - from my letter to her: "Our household has more than doubled now - Uncle Dan and Aunt Karen and
family and all five of their children moved in this week, oh, and [their dog]
is staked in the back yard. It truly is joyful chaos.
They put all their stuff into two storage units out in Lehi, and all but [one son] are sleeping in YOUR bedroom!" ... they don't plan to be here long, but oh, the joy and chaos we are enjoying for a time. These are the cousins - kids ranging in age from 17-4 - we get together with VERY regularly, and are big time favorites of Kimberly's. She'll miss this, so it's a good thing she is is LOVING what she is doing and where she is!
That all sounds like a
ton of fun. Give everyone a big hug and kiss form me! And take a big
family pic too ;p and mom, I'm not sure what album it is, but the one
with count your many blessings. And go ahead and try emailing it, if
that doesn't work then mail it I guess. Also, I am now able to read
email all week long, just not reply until Monday, so don't hold back any
time you want to write. And it's totally fine to talk to members and
stuff. Just in case you didn't know.
Brother
Foote really is amazing. I was telling him and his wife about the book Uncle Karl wrote, Anna's Prayer, who is both of our ancestor and they
said they might want to get it. That was really cool.
Nothing
big happened this week. We did give the Elders messed-up Oreos on April
fools, and one of them actually ate one. We had replaced the cream
inside with a mixture of soap and flour and toothpaste. It was pretty
funny. Speaking of funny, Sister Hirschi has this rubber squishy pig
that she plays with, and it's really fun to throw at the ceiling and see
how long it sticks, but it only works on popcorn ceilings. A couple
weeks ago she brought it to game night on accident, and we started this
contest with the Elders to see how long it would stick. So after the
last session of conference, we were all at the church and she threw it
up at the ceiling. The. Brother Stone, second counselor in the new
bishopric, made a joke about throwing it onto the chapel ceiling. It was
pretty far away and looked pretty smooth. But Sister Hirschi wanted to
try it, and it didn't look like it would work, and it was really far
away, so she threw it really hard. And it stuck. For a long time. It was
really stuck. Super high. We were all laughing really hard. Brother
Stone, some young women who were still there, and all the Elders, and
us. It was really funny. Then we had to find a way to get it down. It
took about twenty minutes, we were throwing things at it, Elder Claridge
was rolling Sister Hirschi's coat up into a ball and throwing it, we
all tried throwing pens. Nothing worked. Then Elder Niko came in and
threw a tissue box at it and it came right down. It was so funny. And
now we know never throw things in the chapel.
That
is the most exciting thing that happened this week. We did get a lot of
members out with us. We met some people that we haven't been able to
see for a while. It was a good week. And this week is walk-week again.
Our phone got wet a couple days ago, and it wasn't charging anymore, so
we weren't sure if we'd have a phone this week, but we checked it out
today, (had to wait for P-Day, I guess,) and it's all good, we just had to get a new battery. So no reason
to panic, we have a phone with a brand new battery for walk-week. This
week should be fun, we'll get a lot of members out with us hopefully.
General
conference was absolutely the best. Basically everything applied to
missionary work. It was great. And being completely honest, it's nice to
sit for four two hour sessions and do nothing but watch the tv and
listen to the prophets speak. I loved all the talks, and I am definitly
going to have to read all the talks over again. For most of the talks
just put "investigator" in for all the people it's focused on, and it
totally applies. Like the one about teaching children to pray, and Elder
Bednar's talk about saving ordinances. And the whole thing really. It
was amazing. It is such a blessing to have prophets and apostles today
that can speak to us, and do twice a year. General conference is really
the only holiday we have as missionaries, and it is so great! I loved
it.
Then, partly because it's spring break, I got her message just after she sent it, so we went back and forth several times, including a personal message from her 4 year old cousin who ADORES Kimberly and wondered why we can't just call her and bring her home right now. It helped, and I think Miri will be okay now. She also has a big foster brother who has been out on a mission for over a year now, so she kind of understands. This is kind of a perfect dichotomy having them live in HER bedroom, her "best buddy" cousins she would be in heaven to be here with, but she wont' be joining us until they are VERY LONG GONE. But she is really okay with this! Her heart is exactly where it is supposed to be, and that makes us very happy!!
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| During conference, another cousin (Brandon/BYU) joined us too. Miri is in the center. |
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