Querida hermana Nielsen,
Hola, como esta? Espero que todo ande bien con usted. I hope you had a great week. This week went by super fast. Monday was President's day, so I had the day off and tried to make some jerky before Amber went back to College. I have been suffering from a cold these past 10 days, and it is not getting any better. I can hardly talk now. My throat hurts and I have not been sleeping well these past few days. We had Pal practice on Tuesday and a game on Thursday. On Thursday, we played a pretty good team and only lost by 6 points or something like that. Summer had 2 long jumpers that she made, near the 3-point line. They are playing a little better, but we need to keep improving. One poor girl on our team broke her nose last week in our game. On Thursday, I had to go to West Wendover high school for FAFSA day. I enjoy going to that high school as most of the parents speak spanish and I get to use my spanish a lot.
But I was feeling pretty badly with my cold. I could hardly yell in the game. On Friday, I worked 1/2 day and we had to get a rental car and headed to Fallon, NV. The rental car was a van and it had a DVD player in it, so Addie and the kids could watch scubby dubby doo and Frozen videos the entire way. She loved it. We played Fallon in Fallon on Friday night. Fallon came out extremely hot and hit 5 3-pointers in the first half. They were up by 1 point and Nate hit a 3 right at the end of the half to put us up by 2 points. That was a big momentum changer. We came out in the 2nd half and Cody guarded their best player and shut him down the entire half. He played really well and only sat out for about 2 minutes. When they need a big win or good defense, Cody is always on the court. They only made 4 points in the 3rd and we pulled ahead by about 20 points. We ended up wining by 25 points or so. Elko girls also beat Fallon girls, so they are going to state as well. Both girls and boys played Lowry in the regional championship game. The elko girls played well and hard and lost to Lowry by 4 or 5 points. In the boys game, we came out a little flat and did not make many buckets and they were hanging with us. Cody was guarding their 3-point shooter and shut him out when ever Cody was on him. He had some points, but never when Cody was guarding him. It was a close game in the 1st half and in the 3rd, Elko blew it open again and won by 25 points or something. Cody had 5 points in both games. He made 2 threes, and went 4 for 4 from the line. So that is the 4th straight league and regional championship for Elko boys. We stayed in a best western motel their on Friday night and went to a museum on Sat. morning. On the way home, we decided to take highway 50 (the loneliest highway in america) home through Austin, NV and Eureka so mom could see that part of the state. My voice was gone the entire weekend, so every time I would try to yell at the refs or players, nothing would come out. But it was a good weekend and we are heading to Vegas to play Desert Pines again in the 1st round. Same as last year. Clark will play Lowry, just as they did last year.
We got home around 8 and I took the rental van back. I was tired as I have not slept very well these past few nights. On the way home we ran over a badger and Cody skinned it and wants to make a hat out of it. The weather turned cold this weekend again, and we are struggling as it was in the 60's for the past few weeks.
We had a good Sunday, nothing too special. We did not have any one over for dinner as mom did not have time to plan a meal and we just had left-overs.
This will also be a short week, but it should be fun. Cody and the team will leave on Wed. to go to Vegas. We will leave Friday morning.
Have a super week, we love you and pray for you every day. Keep working hard as this special time you have to be a full time missionary will be over soon. Enjoy every minute you have as a special representative of the Savior.
Love
Dad
Dearest Hermanita Nielsen,
Well, they did it again! We beat Fallon on Friday night and then defeated Lowry for the 3rd time this season to be the reigning league champs for the fourth year in a row. We went over Friday afternoon to Fallon (they were hosting and it was predetermined just by a rotation of league schools, not because of their record) it worked to their advantage and they had alot of home crowd suppport. They came out firing and were hitting 3's and the crowd was loving it-- the 4th seed taking it to undefeated Elko. We were a bit flat at first, but Nathan kept us in it and hit a 3 going into halftime that put us up by 2. It was all Elko after that and we came out like the champs they are and ended up beating them by 20. The band came and it was nice to have their energy. The next day we played Lowry, who defeated Spring Creek. We were in control the whole game and Lowry played well, but teams just can't maintain the intensity and our defense shuts them down and we ended up winning convincingly by 20ish as well. Cody played really well. In these tight games it's interesting because Klekas plays him nearly the whole game. His defense smothers the other player and he holds their best scorers to way under their average points. He had a 3 pointer and hit both his freethrows in both games. The girls are going to state too. We beat Fallon on Fri. and then lost to Lowry in a really well played game on Sat. So, they go in as the #2 seed and have to play the #1 from the South this week. They are playing their best bball right now so, we can be hopeful.
I forgot to mention last week a cute thing that Cody did for Valentine's Day. Memori Barker asked Hannah what would be a perfect Valentines Day for her, and she said, she would love it if a cute guy gave her a present or stuffed animal or something. She gave her a list of three guys--Cody, Zach Daniels and Nick Palacio. So, since Memori knew us better, than any of them, she asked if Cody would do that for her, and he agreed. He took it one step further and recruited some of the other guys and they gave her a stuffed animal (provided by Memori) some chocolate kisses and a big cheesy Valentine Card and then sang to her in Choraliers and gave her all the stuff. She loved it and felt really special. Memori was really pleased too and made Cody some cookies to thank him and said he had really risen up in her eyes. Cody thought it was fun and said for more cookies he would loan himself out again.
The Simons watched Chica for us. Their girls love her. Mandy said they dressed her up and played with her like she's a doll. Last week we had to have our neighbor (the Jimenez) watch Chica because our regular watchers were out of town. That darn dog got out of their yard by pulling up the bottom of the chainlink with her teeth and going under. Then they said she wouldn't "come" to them. Luckily she would never run away. She is always there waiting for us on the porch.
We now have a badger pelt. Dad ran over it on the way home between Eureka and Carlin-- we took the long way home so that Dad could show us the town of Austin. Cody picked it up and yesterday skinned it, so he can make something out of the hide. Its got a cool pattern on it's fur.
We are all looking forward to going to Vegas this weekend. I have been praying these boys will be able to play their best and hopefully they will be successful after 3 attempts and playing together really for the last 10 years. I really feel they can do it.
I hope you have a wonderful week. I loved your story about really praying and searching for new investos. I can't believe how fast it's going... sprint girl! Love you so much, Mom
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