Aloooha,
Well there went another week. I made it home late Sunday evening from SLC and visiting with mom. She said she liked it so much, that she wants to have another b-day party with all her family. There are lots of grand kids expecting babies in the Nielsen clan. Lindsey and Russell are expecting, Brandon and Ally are expecting a little girl, Doriann and her husband are expecting and they just got sealed in the SLC temple last Saturday. I believe it was just a year since he was baptized, so they had to wait that long to get sealed in the temple. Blake and Amanda Nielsen are expecting their 1st child, and Rachel Campbell is expecting. (I don't know what her married name is, but they are living in Alaska now). So that will add to mom and dads prosterity.
Monday through Wednesday I was in Las Vegas for a conference. I had to teach a session for 1.5 hours on verification. So I was a little nervous about that and trying to get everything prepared. But it went really well. I had quit a few people come up to me afterwards and tell me that I did a good job and was a good teacher. That made me feel better. I do not claim to be an expert on verification, but I did do a lot of research and homework reading all the regulations, etc. It was good to get that over though. It was in the 80's in Vegas. On the way down, I stopped in to deliver tax returns to one of my clients in McGill and they invited me and Tawny, my co-workers to stay for lunch. They had bacon and tomato sandwiches and they were the best. Their 9 year old boy had made home made bread, and they had tomatoes from their dad's garden in Utah and it was very very tasty. Reminded me of the sandwiches I use to eat growing up with dad's garden. I loved it.
This past week has been beautiful as far as the weather is concerned. In the mid 60's for late October. Today it is snowing and the temperatures have dropped to mid 40's. Addie saw the snow this morning and said, "It is snowing outside. I love snow".
Friday was Nevada day, so I had it off from work and the kids were out of school. Cody's football team went to Reno to play Wooster High School. Elko won 39-27. But Cody did not get home until 4:30 am Friday morning and we were leaving at 5:00 am to go deer hunting with Hernold. So we got a later start than we should have. Cody cooked some pancakes and we headed to the Ruby Mtns up Krenka Creek. We hiked up over the top of the Ruby Mtns, where we went with Chelsea that one year. Chelsea was so hungry and tired when we got to the top that she ate the entire apple, core and all. She said she had never tasted a better apple before. I am sure that it was just because she had spent so much energy getting up to the top. It took Cody and I 3 hours to hike to the top and then we were glassing for deer on the back side of the Rubies. I believe it is 3.4 or 4.3 miles from the parking place to the top, but straight up with switch backs back and forth. We ran into some guides up their on the back side on horses, they had come up from Soldier Creek side and that is where they were camped. Hernold had seen some elk and deer up their the night before, but no big bucks. And we did not want to pack a little buck out from that high.
We hung out up there hiking around and glassing all day. In the evening, we spotted a little 3 point, but at that point cody and I were ready to end the hunt. We shot at the 3 point and one of us hit it and it ran down into the thick Quakey Aspen bushes which you can't even walk through. We could tell he was hit and saw him lay down in there, so Hernold and cody stayed up high and I tried to walk down through there to kick him out. I got about 5-10 feet from him but did not see him until he jumped up and about ran me over, going down hill but staying in the thick brush which I could not even walk through. We got back to the truck about 8:30 pm and Cody and I slept in the tent. But our feet and legs were so tired, they did not want to go back up and look for that buck again. So I will go out again tomorrow and see if I can track him in the snow now. The weather was too nice. We were in short sleeves and sweating badly all day from all the hiking we were doing. We went to Bald Mtn on Sat. morning to hunt there. That is where Erin got her big buck. But we did not see only a couple of does and tons of wild horses. We saw alot of deer and elk sign, but they were probably just passing throught to get to the water source.
We drank all the water we had and had eaten all the food we took. We were hot, hungry and thristy and tired by time we got home Sat. night. I watched the world series game sat night. The St Louis Cardinals and Boston Red socks are playing and it is now 2 games a piece.
Sunday was very busy as well. The bug had quit on Erin at costa vida, so at 5:30 am mom and I went over there to tow it home as the traffic on sunday morning is alot less. We did that without any incident. Then, Erin and I have our mission corelation meeting at 8:30 am and it seemed like we were busy all day long. Came home, got the family and went to church. President Shumway was there and wanted to talk to mom and I. He said that when he was interviewing Erin for her mission, she said something that has just stuck with him ever since. She told him that she could not remember the last time we had a Sunday dinner where we did not have the missionaries, or investigators or someone over for Sunday dinner to fellowship. So Elder Gay from the Quorum of seventy had a very specific agenda for the stake conference coming up on Nov. 10th. and he had all the meeting down to the minute of how he wanted it organized. He wanted a Sister from the stake to talk about how she could use her home to make missionary work a family affair or something like that. Mom will give you the exact language. And President Shumway said he immediately thought of mom as that is what she has been doing for the past many years. So mom gets to talk on Saturday night in the adult session for 9 minutes like 7:49 to 7:58 pm. That is how to the minute Elder Gay had things.
Then President Shumway asked me to fill out a form with all kinds of information about me and my family and wife and what callings I have had etc. President Shumway is going to be released and I am on the list of people they want to interview for the stake president position. I guess they will interview all the current bishops and high councelors and 3 others and I am in the list of the 3 others. I have been a little nervous about that for a few months now. But who knows what the Lord has in his plans.
Nursery yesterday was a zoo again. I was literally sweating after it was done, chasing kids around and trying to protect the innocent bystanders in there. Mom left the 2nd hour to go to Relief Society and I was in there with 3 other moms who were trying to help, but I think mom and I are a better tag team than the others. The one lady was trying to talk to the samoan boy and saying that is not how we act, but that did not work for a second. He is like a bull in the china cabinet. The one little samoan boy is like a tank and hurts and runs over everyone. I might be a little relieved when we get released from nursery as it has been a challenge lately. But I am sure they are having a hard time trying to find a replacement.
We were cleaning the house yesterday as Erin had invited a family that we wanted to have over for dinner and we found out they are moving to California. So we were straightening things up and postponed dinner until 6 pm but they never got back to us. Cody and I went home teaching and came home, ate dinner and then they asked our family to sing in a family chior for stake conference. So we went to the stake house to practice for that chior. I believe there are 2 families from each ward respresented. Afterwards, Jacob Conklin asked cody to stay and help him with the sacrement for the 8:30 pm late sacret meeting for the miners. He did not get home until after 9 pm. We were all very tired.
Well have a super week. We love you and pray for you daily. We are so pleased that you are serving a mission. 2 of the baseball players in the world series are from Hawaii. One from Hilo, which I believe is where you served.
Love Dad
Dearest Sis. Nielsen,
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