Querida Hermana Nielsen,
Como fue su semana pasada? Espero que bien. Nosotros la pasamos muy bien aca. I am trying to remember what happened last week. Cody had a home football game against Dayton and they won 42-0. So we play Spring Creek this Thursday at home for the final regular season game.
On Saturday, Cody and I went deer hunting. We called President Jones and went in on his land from the Lamoille side. We hiked all the way back in on the North Fork of Cold Creek back to where all the guides with horses pack in and make their camps. It was about 8 + miles back in there and we saw about 25 does and fawns. Not one single buck. Overall we hiked 16.25 miles according to my fitbit device I am now wearing. We were both dead tired coming back out and Cody had blisters on his feet and my feet and calves where hurting. My calves were starting to cramp up. We basically hiked for about 10 hours straight. Cody did not want to have tag soup on both his tags. His hunt ends tomorrow. I guess Summer will have to put meat in the freezer this winter. Her hunt ends Nov. 2nd in area 7.
Yesterday was a busy day. I had my meeting before church, then church. I did the tithing after the meetings and President Hirst wanted Cody and I to go to the spanish branch, we did that. Then I had to go pick up Elder Lourcher from the 2nd ward (He goes home this week) and we went over to hear Lois, a 4-5 month convert received her Patriarchal blessing. It was really good. Then we had Lois and the lady she is living with in the 1st ward and the sister missionaries over for dinner afterwards. Sister Valele goes back to temple square this week.
And we were not done with dinner when the youth and leaders showed up for a bishops youth discussion at our house at 6 pm. We watched a BYUI devotional that Amber told me about from the Rexburg ID temple president. It was really good, and I think the kids enjoyed it. He talked about the intanglements of sin and how it is far better to never sin and sin and repenting latter. He was a great speaker.
Then we had our family home evening. So no day a rest for us. Summer will try out for the Adobe basketball team this week.
It was a pretty uneventful week, and I can't remember much of what else happened.
Como fue su semana pasada? Espero que bien. Nosotros la pasamos muy bien aca. I am trying to remember what happened last week. Cody had a home football game against Dayton and they won 42-0. So we play Spring Creek this Thursday at home for the final regular season game.
On Saturday, Cody and I went deer hunting. We called President Jones and went in on his land from the Lamoille side. We hiked all the way back in on the North Fork of Cold Creek back to where all the guides with horses pack in and make their camps. It was about 8 + miles back in there and we saw about 25 does and fawns. Not one single buck. Overall we hiked 16.25 miles according to my fitbit device I am now wearing. We were both dead tired coming back out and Cody had blisters on his feet and my feet and calves where hurting. My calves were starting to cramp up. We basically hiked for about 10 hours straight. Cody did not want to have tag soup on both his tags. His hunt ends tomorrow. I guess Summer will have to put meat in the freezer this winter. Her hunt ends Nov. 2nd in area 7.
Yesterday was a busy day. I had my meeting before church, then church. I did the tithing after the meetings and President Hirst wanted Cody and I to go to the spanish branch, we did that. Then I had to go pick up Elder Lourcher from the 2nd ward (He goes home this week) and we went over to hear Lois, a 4-5 month convert received her Patriarchal blessing. It was really good. Then we had Lois and the lady she is living with in the 1st ward and the sister missionaries over for dinner afterwards. Sister Valele goes back to temple square this week.
And we were not done with dinner when the youth and leaders showed up for a bishops youth discussion at our house at 6 pm. We watched a BYUI devotional that Amber told me about from the Rexburg ID temple president. It was really good, and I think the kids enjoyed it. He talked about the intanglements of sin and how it is far better to never sin and sin and repenting latter. He was a great speaker.
Then we had our family home evening. So no day a rest for us. Summer will try out for the Adobe basketball team this week.
It was a pretty uneventful week, and I can't remember much of what else happened.
I am including a part of Sister Jensen's email about Laie Hawaii that I thought was very interesting:
On Monday evening, we attended Family Home Evening for missionaries in the
area. The PCC president, Pres. Grace, a middle aged man who worked his way up
the ranks, spoke to us about the mission of the Polynesian Cultural Center. He
is a Maori from New Zealand and has a distinct accent. The PCC is an entity of
the church that is directly overseen by the First Presidency. One quote I'd
like to share from him was very impressive..."While in a meeting with Elder M.
Russell Ballard, the apostle commented that the Lord regularly visits Laie. He
doesn't do that with other places because he is very busy. When the church
opens up in Asia and China it will be because of what is going on in Laie."
Those of you who have been here or lived here know what a special place Laie
is and we know we are so blessed to be here.
area. The PCC president, Pres. Grace, a middle aged man who worked his way up
the ranks, spoke to us about the mission of the Polynesian Cultural Center. He
is a Maori from New Zealand and has a distinct accent. The PCC is an entity of
the church that is directly overseen by the First Presidency. One quote I'd
like to share from him was very impressive..."While in a meeting with Elder M.
Russell Ballard, the apostle commented that the Lord regularly visits Laie. He
doesn't do that with other places because he is very busy. When the church
opens up in Asia and China it will be because of what is going on in Laie."
Those of you who have been here or lived here know what a special place Laie
is and we know we are so blessed to be here.
We had a group of ranchers and other interested parties from this area ride horses from the California coast to Washington DC in protest of how the government is treating the land for the ranchers. One guy, an attorney here and member of the east state, Grant Gerber, was riding in that and in Kansas, his horse hit a ground hog hole and fell over and Grant bumped his head. He got it checked in St. Louis and they said he was fine, so he continued on to D.C. On the way back he was getting bad head aches and stopped in Wyoming to get checked again and they said he was bleeding on the brain. They took him to SLC and operated on him on Thursday and he passed away on Sat. night. So that was sad. He was a member of the stake presidency when Duane Holmes was stake president before we got here.
I hope you have a great week. Keep working hard and studying the spanish language to master it. Have a great week.
Love
Dad
Dearest Hermanita Nielsen,
This week has blown by. I can hardly remember what has happened. I was the Mommy doing preschool this week, so that was something going on this week. Adelaide is really enjoying it. She will ask if it is preschool day each morning. She reminds me a lot of you, especially lately. She will do these little crazy things and whine and laugh, and I think to myself, 'that's a little Erin'.
We played Dayton in football on Fri. night and we won 42-0, so we are definitely in the playoffs. We play Spring Creek this thursday for the last game of the season. Cody has been a bruiser out there. He doesn't get to carry or run with the ball, because they have littler players that can do that. There isn't anyone as big or strong to play the line so he and Benton Wickersham have been given those duties. He doesn't complain, I think he actually kind of likes "blowing people up" as he puts it and being the one to inflict the blows.
Saturday, I went to Tiffani (De Angelo) Sprenkle's baby shower. I represented Amber and I, since she was in Provo that day running in her half marathon. That's her second! she has passed me up. She is having a boy and looks really cute prego.
I also went to a wonderful baptism that evening for............(drum roll).... MaKayla Jenkins! Randy called me last week to invite our family and just said she had been asking questions and was just at a point in her life when she was ready to get some answers. Brandon has been a really good example to her too. He has been really solid this past year; attending seminary and being really active and is planning on serving a mission. It was really good. Randy said to me afterward that you had been a really good example to her in HS and all these things contributed to her conversion.
Yesterday was the Primary Program in Sac. Mtg. It went well. Everyone did a fine job on their parts. Even Carly who got to have two parts since there was not enough kids for all the parts. She didn't like it too well because it had a lot of big words she wasn't comfortable with and I didn't have a copy of it to practice with her. She did fine, but she had some attitude and stress about it all.
We had the Sisters for dinner last night, attended a Patriarchal Blessing of a recent convert lady who said she wanted us (and a few others) to come to her blessing because she considered us to be her family. So, then she came to dinner too. Then we had a Bishop's Youth Night here at our house. That's when Bishop Bryce gets the Youth of our ward together on a Sun. night and they do an activity. We had them watch a BYU-I Devotional that Amber had attended last week and had highly recommended to Dad. He watched it and recommended it to Bishop. It was sooo good. I highly recommend it to you. Dad will give info. Well, I love you so much and hope you have a Happy Halloween. Love, Mom
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