Dear Elder,
Hi! Thank you so much for sending us an email on Monday. We really loved reading it and seeing the pictures. We will send you replies to your email soon. This is an interesting week because Thomas is gone on a rafting trip and Dad is off work. On Monday evening, for just a little while, we were together. We had a wonderful family home evening from “Preach My Gospel” together. Grandma was with us, too.
On Tuesday, Miriam went to work, so just Katrina, Dad, and I went to the pioneer day parade. The parade was mostly ball teams who’d won championships, so that was dull, but nearer the end of the parade was pretty fun. We watched a big part of the parade sitting at the shave ice stand, eating shaved ice while we watched. After that we walked up the parade a bit and then stopped to watch. For lunch we bought tamales and carne asada tacos from one of the vendors on the library grounds. We talked to him a bit about you, and he told us the difference in the way they eat in north Mexico and south Mexico. It was fun to talk to him. The tamales were awesome! In fact, when Dad and I went on a date later that night, we went back for more. They were selling them cheaper to get rid of them and we bought a dozen. The guy made it 13. Dad and I ate the last three today (Thursday) they are sooooo good!
Wednesday was fun because the young women were having a 10 hour activity at the church so that the girls could work on their ten hour projects for personal progress, and I went periodically and helped Katrina make an alphabet book for Lily. Miriam joined us around six o’clock. It was so fun to spend time with them. The girls had a work party at the skating rink at 9:00. The theme was the eighties, so they dressed up and Dad and I drove them there. We stayed in town and walked while the girls were at the party, then we read scriptures together on the way home. It was fun to be together.
Today I sent off the Disney stuff that we bought for Jon. The $4 sucker we bought him cost us $3 to send, ha ha. We’ve heard from Jon a bit this week, and he’s still job hunting and still hanging in there. I also sent something to my visiting teaching sister who is visiting her parents in Idaho with her family for the whole month of July. She’s going to wonder how I managed to find her parents address and send her something. Gotta love the internet!
Katrina and I went to help Dad at the laundry. We did some deep cleaning, but it’s only a drop in the bucket. Since then, Katrina and I have been spending time with Grandma and eating our dinner. Now I am going over to the church for a Relief Society meeting. I will be dry-pack canning 50 lbs of oats for our food storage.
to be continued...
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