Dear Elder: Letters from Other Family Members

Matt,

This week we have been re-doing the kitchen so all the kitchen stuff is in the living room. We’ve had to eat out every night! It’s a little tiring. I haven’t been up to much this week! Valentine’s day was on Thursday. Me, Dad, Thomas, Katrina and Preston all went to Nickelmania. It was a lot of fun! Mom has been at Cassandra's this week so I’ve been making sure that everthing’s clean and that everyone gets dinner haha. How has your week been? I hope everything’s going well for you!

Miriam

Dear Elder,

Mom’s been gone, so we’ve had to manage on our own.  Tomorrow is President’s Day and there’s no school.  That’s good.  I didn’t do anything for Valentine’s Day; I just stayed home.  My friends and I were thinking of going on a date, but it didn’t work out.  There was a Valentine’s dinner for the couples in the ward put on by the young men and young women.  I played piano for it.  Thomas did stand-up comedy and a lot of people thought it was really funny.  How are you doing?  Has anything exciting happened?  I heard there was a lot of spiders hanging from the power lines in Mexico.  Did it happen where you are?

Love,

Katrina

Dear Matt,

So on Wednesday the young women set up a valentine dinner for all of their parents and they said that they would have a talent show performed by all of the kids and they asked me to do some stand up comedy, it went pretty well. Two days ago I went to my friends house and we Melted some gummy bears and while we were waiting for the gummy bears to harden we played this game where we bounce a bouncy ball into a cup and if we make it the other person chug a glass of water, it doesn’t sound so bad, but after like 5 cups of water you have to have a throw up bowl, haha I was the worst at the game so I had to drink 7 cups of water, finally the gummy bears were hard enough to eat but we didn’t eat them we went outside and started playing ball tag and launching the gummy bear at each other with a water balloon launcher. Haha we did the next thing yesterday too, it was pretty fun anyways that’s pretty much all that I have done this week, anyways what have you been up to?

-Thomas

Dear Son,

I’m sick, blaaaa.  I hate being sick.  And mom’s gone to Lilyland, so blah.  Also Vic had blood clots in his lungs so I have had to look after the laundry.  I would tell you more about my life but it mostly just be me writing blaaa a whole bunch.  But what about you?  So you went to Culiacan? And were in a seminary class for 4 days?  Tell me about that, what was that all about?  So Jon and Mir and Kat and Thomas and I all just had bbq pork roast that I made by crock potting it overnight.  It was good.  The guys are coming tomorrow to start working on the installing the kitchen cabinets.  It will be nice to get it going.  Well I love you and hope that things are going well with Carman and Llennin.

Love, Dad