Dear Elder,
Boy, are you in for a ton of mail today! Here are the letters I wasn't able to send because of the power outage.
Written Monday morning May 21:
Dear Elder,
Hi! How was your weekend? I hope it was good. Tanner gave his pre-mission talk in church and did a wonderful job. He is going to be a great missionary. He said something that, combined with the lessons in Sunday School and Relief Society, really had an impact on me. Even though his talk was on Charity, and Sunday School was about missionary work, and Relief Society was about reading the scriptures, it’s interesting how, when I listen with the Spirit, all the messages in church seem to come together in one theme just for me. I need to listen with the spirit more so that will happen more.
After church, we went to Tanner’s house to eat cookies and congratulate him and his family. It was fun to talk and visit. After that, we had home teachers over. They gave us a wonderful message about harmony in the home. Grandma especially loved visiting with Brother Kubalik who is a very kind man. He called her “Grandma” and listened to everything she had to say. He didn’t even mind when Grandma stuck her foot out during prayer and poked his knee. Unfortunately, a few very naughty people didn’t have their eyes closed and laughed. It was not a very reverent prayer. Bro Kubalik also fixes cars, so we are going to have him work on your truck which is now Miriam’s.
We certainly had a lot of visitors yesterday because, besides the home teachers, Renee and Becky and came over to visit Grandma. They stayed for a good long time and they helped Grandma talk to Bethany on the phone. She really loved that. Also, the neighbors came over to watch the eclipse.
In case you didn’t know, there was a solar eclipse yesterday. If we had been able to drive to Cedar City, it would have been a full eclipse, but we didn’t think Grandma would be up to it. Instead we went in to the laundry where Dad took nine pairs of sunglasses and duck taped them together so that you could see through all the lenses at once. We took that beautiful contraption home to watch the eclipse occur. As I said before, many of the neighbors came over to wear Dad's crazy glasses and watch the eclipse. Dad also had some binoculars turned backward and trained on a piece of paper so we could see the progress of the eclipse just by glancing over at the paper. It was so fun that I forgot I had a girl's camp meeting, and got there 30 minutes late. The meeting lasted till after ten and when I got home, Dad had already read scriptures and had prayer with the kids and had Grandma mostly ready for bed. He is so sweet!
Well, that was our day! The power is out right now so who knows how long it will be before I am able to send this. I love you, Matt, have a great day!
Love,
Mom
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