Adelaide lost her front tooth

Dear Elder Nielsen,

Adelaide lost her front tooth on Friday. So now she has a big gap in her mouth. Addie typed all that as she wanted us to tell you. Adelaide is also wearing an Elko basketball shirt, FYI. Carly is about to lose one of her teeth as well. It is dangling out the side of her mouth. Carly's tooth came out while I was typing this letter.

Monday I took the day off work and worked on taxes for the entire day from about 7 am to 8 pm. I extended about 16 returns so that is not too bad. One client owed $45,000 when I finished the 1st time so I had to work some magic and got it down to owing $23,000. 

I worked the rest of the week. Tuesday evening, I had to go up to the church and meet with someone over their budget and finances. Also our hunting tags were due on Monday and I just put summer and I in for deer. I had to due it through the internet and they charge you $2 per tag more on the internet, so I did not buy any bonus points.

Not much happened on Wednesday. Thursday for young mens we went on a hike to get the boys in shape for trek. The BYU men volleyball team won their league and are number 1 in the country. They are the number 1 seed overall in the NCAA tournament. Friday, Elko played Truckee and won 9-2. Benton hit a 2 run home run and now has 6 on the year. I talked to him on Sat. and he said he had not heard from any colleges except to tell him they were not interested after he hurt his knee. Saturday was senior day and I was suppose to announce the game, but it rained all night and all morning, so the games were postponed. Elko has 10 seniors on the team this year. So I worked on a few taxes at home on Saturday. Mom drove the bug and was coming home from some where and it would not shift. So she was stranded at Ash and 4th street. So that goofy thing only lasted 1 week. I think the clutch cable broke. So we will now have to get that fixed again. Mom and I went over there at 5:30 am this morning to tow it home as there is very little traffic on Sunday mornings that early.

I had to talk in church today on "Be thou Humble" from Elder snow this past conference. That is a very good topic for me. I also referred a lot to  a BYU devotional from President Kimball from 1963. It was very good. He said the moment we think we are humble we have lost it. He also said we lose our humility when our callings become routine. I thought that was very interesting. The way we remain and stay humble is to never think that we did things, every thing comes from the Lord and that is where we should give the credit. He also said, missionaries are treading dangerously when they talk about how many converts they had, as they did not convert any one, the spirit is the one that converts people.

I tried to go home teaching tonight, but could not get a hold of any of our families. But we will keep trying this evening. I believe that 9 or 9:30 am on Monday would work great for us to skype on Mothers day, it that works for you. 9 am Monday your time is 6 pm sunday for us. You let us know what works for you and we will be here.

Keep working hard. I can't believe you have almost been out 10 months next week. That is crazy. We love you and pray for you always. It will be good to skype with you in a couple weeks. We were having beautiful weather this past week, but now it is cool again and suppose to snow on Tuesday. That is spring time in Nevada.

Have a super week,

Love,

Dad

Dearest Elder Nielsen,

Well, here it is Sunday again.  Do the weeks just fly by for you too?  Dad spoke in church today, his topic was "Be thou Humble " from  the conference talk; he did a good job.  I subbed a Primary class for Amber Gibson --CTR 8 with 3 wild little boys, it was kind of a challenge, but they were OK.

It is rainy and cold today--typical Elko Springtime, but everything is really green.  I wonder if the wild flowers up in the mountains will be abundant this year.  It was like this yesterday too and Elko Baseball had to cancel their double header with Truckee.

I think we mentioned that we got the Bug back last week, and it was driving just great, except yesterday I was driving it and it stranded me up in the tree streets.  The clutch wouldn't engage and the gears would grind if you tried to shift into 1st to start off.  I walked home from 4th street and Ash.  Dad and I got up early (for a Sunday) and took the Trooper to where it was at and towed it home.  We used Carly's Moterola  walkie Talkies that she got for Christmas to communicate between the cars-- that helped a lot.  Little Walter is home in the garage now.  Dad thinks it may be just a cable that broke since when you push in the clutch there isn't much resisitance.  Always something!

Adelaide and Carly have both lost teeth this week.  Ads lost one of her front teeth and Carly's is one of her canines.  Adelaide looks kind of goofy with a big gap in her smile , but that's how it is.

We watched BYU Mens' Volleyball on BYUTV this past week.  They were playing in their league tournament.  They are so amazing.  They won both the matches they played in the Smith Field House, and that place is rockin'!  It looks like a very fun atmosphere to play in.  They beat UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara and UCLA pretty convincingly.

We talked to Amber and Kevin this past week and they are doing great and settling  into married life in Michigan.  Little David is growing and getting very active.  He is so cute.  Landon started back to school last week, and they are doing well too.  I feel so abundantly blessed that all my kids are doing such wonderful things with their lives and making and keeping sacred covenants.  It is the best blessing ever!  I am looking forward to Skyping on Mothers' Day, I think the Sunday evening time will be perfect, I am sure looking forward to it (Sorry Girls, not sharing my time this phone call, We will take a video and send you some Filippino Love)  Have a wonderful week, love you lots, Mom