Our memorable weekend

Hola Sister Nielsen,

How has your week been?  We had a good week. I got home from Arizona Tuesday night at 10 pm.  It was hot there about 95 degrees.  I worked 2 days and took Friday off as we usually go to Reno for Codys basketball.  

But Joshua Nielsen got married to Adrian in the Draper temple so we went to that session.  It was good, she is a good catch for Josh.  We had a luncheon at the church afterwards.  It was good.  It was good to see all my family.  Mom was doing really well, a lot better than last month when I was there.  She went to all 3 meetings at church with us.  Erin stayed home for S-day and seminary graduation.  She said she did not mind if we were there or not.  Cody did not go to Reno but went with us.  I guess his team won the high school tourny in Reno this past weekend.  But he had fun with Joe.  Erin graduated with honors from seminary all 4 years and was asked to share her testimony.

It was fun visiting with all my siblings Sunday night.  We had pop corn and a lot of good laughs.

And we came home yesterday afternoon.  Mom said she was going to be very lonely without all of us there.

That is about all I have to report.  Erin has her senior solos tonight and Chelsea is going to play for her.  She is singing it's a wonderful world.

Hey, this is Chelsea now. Dad wanted me to add this little bit. You know our cousin Jason? Well his daughter Leah kept calling dad "skunk." They tried to correct her, and say, "No, it's uncle Scott." But she kept saying "Uncle Skunk." She's about 2, so it was pretty funny. We couldn't figure out if she was being funny, or if she really was trying to say Scott. But throughout the whole weekend, we kept hearing, "Uncle Skunk!"

Well have a great week. We love you and are  happy you are a missionary.  Oh last night after we got home we were getting unpacked and mom went shopping. and the Cubillos arrived here with the Gonzales family.  They had Rolitos girl friend with them as well.  But it was really good to see them.  They still tell us how much they love us and how wonderful we are, etc.  But the all look the same, but Rolito and Genesis are bigger now.

They had not know Adelaide, but she was being very shy and would not talk or engage  with them.

Well have a super week.

Love DAD

Counting down the days til schools out

Hello Sister Nielsen,

So the events of this past week.  My accounting class at the college ended this past week and I was busy getting all the grades in for the students.  Cody left for Las Vegas after school on Tuesday, but they did not play until Thursday morning.  They played Boulder City the number 2 school from the south and elko was the number 1 team from the north.  And Elko came out flat and Boulder city spanked them.  I believe they had 6 home runs in that game.  I do not remember the score, but it was not pretty.  Cody pinched ran for someone, but was left on the bases.

In the 2nd game on Thursday, they played the loser of the other game which was truckee.  And we beat them.  Cody pinched ran that game and scored a run and then got to bat that inning and hit a one bouncer to the fence and brought in a run and had a stand up double.  So that means on varsity he was 3 for 3 and 1000% batting average, which is good.  He did not play in the next game.  But we played the loser of the winners game and it was Boulder City again, on Friday morning and they beat us again 6 to 1.  So they were done and came home the next day on Sat. 

 Erin went to Vegas on thursday for the track meet.  She got home early sunday morning so I did not get to talk to her, but mom said Elko took 3rd place in state.  

Friday, I was suppose to bring a gift from the state of Nevada to be auctioned off at this conference and I decided to make 4 pounds of deer jerky as my gift.  So I was up till midnight smoking the jerky and had to get up at 4 am to catch my plane at 5.  But Phoenix is very hot over 100, but we are indoors all day so it feels good when we go outside.

I will go home tomorrow evening.  I went to church here yesterday and and all the BYU Idaho financial aid folks were there visiting as well.

Well there is not much else I have to report, but we love you and are happy you are serving a mission. 

Take care and have a great week.  I see Chelseas email about giving out a book of mormon so we are a missionary family.  I have not had a chance to read it yet as I was trying to get you this email in time.

Love DAD

It was great to talk to you yesterday!

Aloha Sister Nielsen,
 
Well it was great to talk to you yesterday.  It sounds like everything is going well and that you are doing great.  We did not spend much time giving you a sports report, so I will give you that now.
 
Carly's soccer team the one Mom and I coach is awesome.  They are undefeated and Sat. won 13 - 0.  Carly had 2 goals and does pretty well, but we have to hold her back.  On Sat. I told her she could not cross mid-field.  She was not happy we me and reluctanlty obeyed.  But we were killing them and I was trying to hold our players back.  We only let 2 girls go up and try to score a goal.  Actually, we have 8 players and 7 of them are really good. Only 1 weak player and she was not there Sat.
 
Summer is doing better at soccer as well. She had a goal last game but still plays a little timid and not sure of her self.  She is afraid of being off-sides.  But getting better.  The potential is there.
 
Codys baseball team went to Winnemucca for the regional tournament and play 2 games on Friday and 1 on Sat.  They won all 3 games and are now 26-3 for the year.  We did not go watch them, but you can watch them on the internet (chelsea) at the elko high school web site down on the bottom left of the page , there is a "one" thing or something.  So Chelsea you can watch them next week in Vegas at state on the internet.
 
Friday morning we were up 3-0 in the 4 and Truckee (who beat Elko in the state Championship game last year) scored 4 runs to go ahead 4-3.  In the 6th inning, Cody pitch ran for some one and stole 2nd.  There were 2 outs and Elko had a hit and run play on, so Cody was running on the pitch to 3rd, the guy hit it to the 2nd baseman and he bobbled the ball and Cody kept running to home on the hit and the guy threw the ball to home but not in time.  So Cody scored the tieing run and Elko won it in the 7th inning.  Cody said his score fired everyone up, I guess they all left the dug out and were mugging him for a while and then got in trouble by the ump as they are not suppose to leave the dugout.  So Elko won 5-4.  They beat Fallon Friday evening by 3 or 4 runs and then played Truckee again in the Championship game on Sat and won by 10 runs due to the mercy rule.  Truckee was worn out by then.  So the go to Vegas this week and play Boulder city from the south.  We were planning on going down, but I have to fly to Pheoniz, AZ on sat at 5 am.  So I not sure if we will go down or not to watch Erin and cody.
 
Erin's track team took 2nd in regional behind Spring Creek.  They lost by one point.  Erin's 4 x 200 relay came in 2nd behind spring creek and their 4 x 400 relay came in 3rd.  She also ran the open 400 meters and took ninth place.  She said her and this girl from Lowry were running side by side the entire race and she was trying so hard to beat her, she lost her running form and  did not win (lost by inches she said). If she would have taken 8th place that is worth 1 point and they would have tied spring creek. She ran a 63 400 in the relay and a 65 in the open.  Their 4x200 beat the school record by 2 seconds.  So they did pretty well.
 
Well hopefully they will get them at state this week in vegas.
 
As I told you on the phone, I gave a Book of Mormon to that black lady who works at GBC in pahrump.  She was the one I was having religous confersations with back in Jan. when I went down to Pahrump.  But this past week I had to go to Round Mtn and Tonopah high school to talk about fin aid.  Lee is her name, she met me there from Pahrump.  We went to get a bite to eat afterwards and we had a 2 hour religious conversation.  She was asking about the book of mormon etc and lots of crazy things.  I told her I had a copy of the BOM for her if she wanted to read it.  I told her not to believe my words, but to read it and pray about it and ask Hevenly Father.  She said she would.  Then she sent me that long email on Friday how she was looking up mormonism on the internet and was reading a bunch of anti mormon garbage.  I have not responded to her yet but I will.  I also met with the other lady who I met in January who was a member of the church, sealed in the temple but inactive.  She said she attended church once but had been reading her scriptures a little and was reading her patriarchal blessing.  She said every time she read her blessing, she thought of me and said to her self, I bet scott would be so proud of me.  She is moving back to Louisianna in June, but she said there is a LDS church across the street from their house they are looking at.  So I told her she could have a fresh start there and to take her husband with her.  I think things will work out for her.  She has the desires and that is the biggest thing.
 
Well I better let you go.  Keep up the good work and keep working hard.  Remember what Grandpa Nielsen said, the harder you work, the faster it goes.
 
We love you all,
 
DAD 

Another year older

Sister Nielsen,
 
I hope you had an enjoyable week this past week.  We enjoyed your letter last week about the part of our legs are not painted on.  We talked to Chelsea yesterday and she said you were sounding more and more like me, (which is a good thing).  We thought that was funny.  Sister Hudson probably did not think that was funny.
 
We had a good week.  Mom's birthday on Friday and mother's day next week.  Mom will tell you but we leave home about 10:00 am for chior practice and get back about 2:30 pm pacific time.  But I believe you all in Hawaii are on different hours now as you don't follow day light savings time.  But we should be home any time after 2:30 pm.  Can you skype or just call?
 
Adelaide, said the other day, I want Amber Lee to come home, I miss Amber Lee.  Then she said, I'm going on a mission, I'm going with Amber Lee.  We told her we would get to talk to you next week so she was pretty excited about that.  She is a cute little skunk when she wants to be and she can be pretty stubburn when she wants to as well.
 
Cody's baseball team started their regional tournament this past week end and they beat Spring Creek and now this next Friday and Sat. they go to Winnemucca to finish regionals.  They play Truckee on Friday morning.  The top 2 teams from the north regionals will go to state in Vegas.  Cody only got to play on as a pinch runner and got thrown out at 2nd trying to steal 2nd base.
 
Erin had a track meet in Winnemucca on Sat and they did not do so well.  But this week end they travel to regionals in Yerington.  If they do good there they will go to vegas for state as well.
 
We invited 5 missionaries for dinner yesterday and 1 other new guy in the ward.  But 2 of the Elders had meetings so we just sent them their food with the others.  We had cafe Rio.  It was good.  I took off work on Friday to finish up some taxes and watch cody's baseball games.  Josh Nielsen your cousing is getting married on the 25th of May in the Draper temple and Chelsea will just happen to be up here for that.  So that will be good.
 
Not too much happening else here.  I asked the missionaries how many baptisms in a month they were getting and they said last month was awefull , like 30.  I told them your mission was shooting for 200 and that they have to pick up the slack.
 
Any way,  we love you and look forward to talking to you on Sunday.  Have a great week.
 
Love Dad