May Day

Hola Hermana Nielsen,
 
Como estas?  Como anda el trabajo?  Espero que bien.
 
How are you doing?  We were glad to hear that you are now in the game.  I don't like watching my kids sitting the bench either.  It has rained alot here this past week.  Cody was suppose to play Spring Creek on Tuesday, but it got rained out.  So they will play them tomorrow.  His baseball team travel to play Fernley on Friday and Saturday, but Friday's game got rained out as well.  They did play the 2 games on Sat. and lost the 1st one 11-10 and won the 2nd 17-0.  They were ahead 9-2 in the top of the 6th and they switched out their starting pitcher and the other team came back to beat them.  Fernley score 5 or 6 runs in the bottom of the 7th to win.  I told Cody, that was a coaching loss.  They should have left the started in.  They did that against Truckee here last week and gave up 11 runs.  I hope he has learned his lesson now.  They will make up Friday's game today in Winnemucca.  So mom and I are going to try to go over and watch that game.
 
I had my blood work done last week as well.  They say my Cholesterol is still high.  I have not been as good this year at taking my medicine as I should have.  I am sure that if I take it more consistently that it will go down again.  But every thing else looks good.  They said I actually lost 9 lbs from last year to this year.
 
I have been busy trying to get out the tax returns for a client that we  are 3 years behind schedule.  I worked for about 6 hours in my office on sat. but I still have a lot to do.  They want them by today so he can refinance his house mortgage.  Sat. morning I did Cody's paper route for him and then I had Bishophric training from the Stake Presidency for 2 hours.  So that chewed up my morning work time.  On Sat. evening, we went to Mary Hiles wedding reception.  It was at Michael Hiles house and was good.  I saw Tori's sister there and told her you were serving with one of her roommates.
 
Friday night we had a ward activity put on by the young womens.  They were trying to raise money for girls camp, so they auctioned off a bunch of things.  I did not buy any thing as I did not want any more junk around the house.
 
Church was good yesterday.  Kiley Olsen had her farewell as she goes into the mtc this wed.  There were a ton of visitors from her family and all the youth and parents who know her.  We were suppose to have Sierra over for her new member discussions, yesterday, but she texted Cody and canceled on us.  She was not in church again.  I think something is going on with her and it worries me.  I need to talk to her one on one.  She has not been to church in over a month.  And will not return any one's texts if it is about church.  We also had a bishops youth activity last night in the Simons home and that was fun.  We played church trivia and minute to win it.
 
Well that is about all for now.  Cody has 5 more baseball games left until regionals.  They are tied for 1st place right now in the north.
 
We hope you have a fantastic week and you are getting better on spanish every day.  We love you and pray for you daily.
 
There was a guy visiting the spanish branch yesterday from Uruguay and in talking with him, I served with his wife on my mission in Argentina.  We served in the same mission in the same time period, but I could not remember who she was.  That was kind of neat though.
 
Have a great week.
 
Love Dad

Dearest Hermana Nielsen,

I am so happy to hear you are "in the game" and much more involved now.  I think Sis. Cortez will be a great companion for you.  You sounded so much happier and motivated in your last letter.  Go out there and "Score" girl.  We are doing well, lots of involvement with sports and stuff.  Soccer started up this last week, and I am coaching Carly's team again, so thats a bit more time taken up. We were supposed to have our first game on Sat. but it was rainy and cold--so it got cancelled, typical Elko spring.  Today it is nice and sunny, still a bit chilly and all the trees are blossoming and our tulips are in full bloom,  Spring is here.  What is it like right now in Peru?  You are probably moving into Fall, is it getting cooler?

It was Ben Neff"s birthday last week so he invited us to go bowling with him.  So, the three little girls and I  met him at Telescope Lanes and we bowled on one lane and he bowled on the other.  He bowled 3 games to our 1.  It was Adelaide's first time bowling and she had fun.  Of course everyone used the bumpers, incl. Ben.

I have been subbing routes for people a lot lately.  I did Susie Harris' driving route on thurs. so she could go chaperone All State, which was in Reno.  Then saturday I subbed for another girl I had subbed for before, and it was a downtown route, and as I was backing up to turn around after dropping off to a trailer, I backed into a tree!  I was going slow, but I couldn't see it as it was kind of dark and it was right in my blind spot.  It crunched the corner of the bumper on the van.  We may be able to push it back out.  I felt like such an idiot.  I showed Dad and he took it fairly well, I was not excited to show off my big blunder though.  "Struggle is real" as Amber quotes all the time.

Friday night we had a ward activity at the church; a potluck and silent auction to raise money for girls' camp.  We took some cookies to auction, but didn't buy anything.

Sat. night we went to Mary Hiles' wedding open house. She married a guy 2 or 3 years younger than her, but they seem really happy.

Cody had baseball games in Fernley and almost hit a grand slam home run.  He said if it wasn't for the wind pushing it back he would have had a "Grand Salami" .  He is doing much better at batting, I can't wait to see him hit a home run!  

Kylee had her "farewell" talk in church on Sun. and she also sang.  There were a lot of kids and people there.  Bruce and Penny Wilson came too.  She goes into the MTC this Wed.  I think her mom cries when she thinks about it.

Well, thats all I have to report,  have a great week, Love you tons, Mom

PS The Elders asked if they could skype their moms from our house, so let us know what is a good time to connect with you, and we will work around things.  We still have church at 11-2pm.  How many hours are you ahead?