2012 10 07
Dear Elder,
Thanks so much for your letter of last week! It is wonderful that you helped that sweet
sister exercise the faith necessary to go to church. Please let me know how she is doing
We have had a wonderful week, especially a wonderful
Saturday listening to LDS General Conference.
Do you get to watch conference live, or do you have to wait! Have you listened to the sessions yet? Did you hear or hear about the prophet,
President Monson’s announcement that young men can now serve missions at the
age of eighteen, and young women at the age of nineteen? What an exciting announcement! Can you imagine having gone on your mission a
year earlier than you did? It probably
would have been a good thing. It was
wonderful to hear the Prophet’s voice announce this and also the building of
two new temples, on in Tucson, AZ and one in Peru. I also enjoyed Elder Nelson’s talk. I don’t know what he entitled it, but I would
call it “Ask the Missionaries,” because he told all about how missionaries can
help people everywhere with their questions and needs. Elder Oak’s talk about defending the children
echoed my own thoughts that I have had on the subject lately. There were so many wonderful talks! Now it’s Sunday morning and Conference will
start again in little more than an hour.
I can’t wait!
Also on Saturday Becky came over and spent some time with
Grandma so that we could get out between conferences. We went for a drive and took in over 50 vhs
and various other hand-held recorder tapes to be converted to digital and
dvd. It will sure be nice to have all
the old home movies on the computer, and it was really nice of Becky to come
and be with Grandma who really loved it.
Becky stayed and watched the second session with her, too, which was
really nice.
Katrina wasn’t with
us yesterday, she was at a Shakespeare competition. We missed her very much, and I’m sad she
missed conference. She got home after
midnight last night (this morning). She
said she had a fun time and asked to not be woken up till just before
conference time today. Thomas had a game
yesterday during conference time, but didn’t go, choosing to watch conference
instead. He and Miriam were the only
kids we had home! It was kind of weird
to be so few.
Jonathan has been out of town selling Costco memberships, but
he is home now. I haven’t heard how it
was. I hope he had a pretty good time
and that he got to see Tyler and Stephanie who live there, I think.
BTW, I found some spam on your Facebook page and reported
it. Also, Natalie had posted. She’d heard there was a blog you could go to
and “stalk” Elder Cole, so I sent her the link to my blog.
Grandpa Haws’s birthday was yesterday and we tried to send
him a video, but we’d taken it on the old camcorder and then couldn’t get it on
the computer so we paid to get it put on dvd, and tried to post it on facebook
and youtube, but since we couldn’t cut out the rest of what was on the tape and
just post the little segment we did for Grandpa, youtube said it was removed
because it was too big, and I think that was the reason it didn’t post to
facebook either. Anyway, today I’m going
to ask Brother Melton if there is a way to post only that segment, and if not,
I will have to go get it put on a digital disk or whatever it’s called which is
what I should have done in the first place, but didn’t realize it. Anyway, I did call and talk to Grandpa and
wish him a happy birthday. We talked for
quite awhile which was really nice. I
sure love him!
I also got to talk to Cassandra and Lily on Skype. It was so fun! In April, I ordered a book made of Lily’s
blog and sent it to Cassandra for her birthday.
Well, now it is Lily’s favorite book, and she had to get it and “read”
it to me. It was so cute! She loves seeing the pictures of herself with
her mommy and daddy. The poor book is
now missing a chunk from one page, and another page all together, but it is
well, loved. We’ll have to order another
nice one sometime! I also showed her my
doggy puppet, which she liked. She
really laughed when I had the following conversation with the doggy:
“Doggy..”
“What?”
“Doggy…”
“What???”
Doggy…”
“WHAT???”
It goes on for quite awhile like that. Pretty hilarious, huh? It mimics conversations Lily has with her
mommy a lot except she says “Mommy” instead of “Doggy” of course. Cassandra and Emerson will be closing on
their house in ten days, and they are pretty excited. So are we!
On Friday I substituted in the morning where Dad works. We weren’t in the same place at the same
time because I was subbing for the other teacher, but it was fun to drive there
and back with Dad. He and I also went
out to eat, went for a walk, and watched some of “The Pick Wick” papers that
night. It was so fun!
Miriam finished reading the Lord of the Rings in the last
little while, so we have been watching the LOR movies lately which has been
fun. Other than that, I can’t think of
much that’s happened. Oh, on Tuesday we had
family home evening because it didn't work out on Monday. I gave a lesson on emulating Jesus Christ in
our lives and we made Grandpa’s video.
I love you.
Matt. Watching conference makes
me feel closer to you as I hear different accents declare that this world-wide
church is the true church of Jesus Christ again restored on the earth. I love the thought of faithful Mexico saints
and missionaries serving God alongside us and the other saints of the world in
sharing His truth. I know that your work
is the Lord’s work and I am happier than I can say that you are engaged in it.
Love,
Mom
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