Hello Elder Nielsen,
We are excited to hear how Elder Bednar's visit to your mission went. We had a good week. Monday was President's day so we all had the day off. I worked on taxes most of the day. Met with 2 clients and tried to finish up other tax returns. There still never seems to be enough time in the day. We went to the church Monday night for our family home evening activity and worked with Summer and Carly on their dribbling and shooting for basketball.
I don't remember much about Tuesday, Wednesday
I am not sure how that earlier message got sent, but here is the continuation. Thursday, we had Mutual and most of the young men and women were gone to Las Vegas for the state tourney. The band and cheerleaders and players were all gone. So that left the Beehives and deacons and a few others.
We had thought about driving down to Vegas to watch elko play, but it is a long way and the cost involved without any kids down there, we decided not to go. It was a good thing we didn't as Elko laid another egg. We played Cheyenne from Vegas who we beat earlier in the year by 20 points. And we came out flat. We were down 10-2 at one point. We battled back and played evenly with them in the 2nd and third quarters and then lost it in the 4th. We were only down by 3 or 4 points with a couple minutes remaining and missed some 3's. I guess at the start of the game we missed some close layups and that hurt us. Eric had 17 points, 5 3's and we lost by 6 points. They made a layup at the buzzer, so it was closer than that as we had to foul them. Everyone said all the seniors were laying on the floor crying. That bothers me as you got to lay it all on the floor during the game, not after the game.
So the season is over. I don't expect them to ever win a state championship as long is Klekas is the coach. It is too much about his own kids and not the team.
On Saturday I worked on taxes in the morning. We went to a baptism in the spanish branch. An eight year old Sabastian Ramirez who was born into the branch when I was branch President. Then we went to the Simons house for a birthday party and pizza. BYU was playing Gonzaga, who is the number 1 team in the nation and were 29-0 in Spokane, Washington. It was senior night for Gonzaga. Mom and I planned on watching the game on BYUTV at 10 pm at night on the rebroadcast. We turned it on at the Simons and watch the first 5 minutes live and BYU was down 18-2. I thought this is getting ugly in a hurry. So we came home and I was not too thrilled to watch BYU get beat badly, but we were watching the SLC news and they news said BYU was coming back. So we stayed up and watched it and it was great. BYU ended up winning by 8 points. It was a lot closer than that as they were fouling and BYU made 4 free throw in a row. But that was a great game. Mica had 29 points and Haws made about 4 big time 3's in a row to get us back into the game from way down town. It was a fun game.
Today we had our ward conference and it was good. Most of the stake leaders were there instructing us. We had BYC after our meetings. But it was a good day. None of the people I am working with in the missionary work were able to make it to church. But I keep inviting them every week. Mom and I tried to go out home teaching, but all of our families were either sick, or not at home.
I guess Vivian Neff got home from her mission this past week. Summer saw her, but the rest of us have not seen her yet.
We hope you have a great week. Keep working hard. We love you. I was listening to some conference talks this week and studying D&C 138 and realized that the Savior's mission or missionary experience was only 3 years only a year longer than your missionary time. You have 2 years to try and do you your very best and to accomplish everything the Lord wanted you to accomplish in the Philippines. So do your very best and don't leave any rocks un-turned. Find all those inactives and investigators that you were sent there to find.
Have a super week.
DAD
Dearest Elder Nielsen,
We've had some good things to report and some bad things to report this week in the sports update. First of all Elko took on Cheyenne in the State 3A semi game. Elko came out kind of slow and didn't make lay-ups which put us behind 0-8 off the bat. We didn't get the offensive boards and that resulted in Cheyenne getting a lot of 2nd opportunities. We did get back into it and actually were only down 20-21 at half. We actually did lead for a brief time, but we just couldn't hang on and ended up losing 47-53. It was the same old story-- we had our chances, but just missed too many crucial shots. Summer and I really wanted to make the trip down and watch the game. I remember when the people from Elko went down and supported your team even though they didn't have any kid in the program and how great that was. Dad thought about it , but in the end didn't feel we should do it. Now, after the loss we are glad we didn't go down. Eric Klekas had 17 points, he played well, but that competition is always so much bigger, faster, blacker than we are ever used to playing against.
Now, the good news. BYU played Gonzaga last night in Spokane. Gonzaga was undefeated all season long, ranked #1 in the country, and it was their Senior Night--last game of the regular season and BYU spoiled the party! It looked like it was
going to be a romp, BYU was down 2-18 in the first quarter, but they just battled back the whole game and ended up winning by 8 points. The Zags were stunned! That's the third year in a row that BYU has beaten them at home.
Now for news on the home front. Everyone kept telling me today at church "Congratulations, on the new grandbaby" and they commented on what a beautiful baby she is. Tis' true-- she is really pretty . Erin and Landon are cute little parents too. How fun for you to be a double uncle now!
Monday was President's Day. We didn't do a whole lot, but we did go down to the church and Dad worked with Summer and Carly on their ball handling skills and shooting. Summer got drilled on her bad shooting habits, but I think we made some improvements.
Last night we went to the Simons house for Marley and McKinley's (the two youngest) birthday party. We love it when the Simons' kids have birthday parties because the whole family is invited and they always have pizza and cake. Other families are invited too and so the kids run around the house (literally) and have a crazy time and the adults just sit around and talk. It's always fun.
Summer is going to start track practice tomorrow. Adelaide wanted me to tell you that she made a cute little book all by herself that she wrote and illustrated about a princess that gets kidnapped... twice! she worked really hard on it, all on her own. Carly's just hanging around getting cuter every day.
I'm looking forward to hearing how your page turning went at the Conference with Elder Bednar.
We really enjoy your letters, keep working hard, your service is such a blessing to us all. Love, Mom
PS Vivian Neff got home this week from her mission. I guess she says "all y'all " a lot is what Peter told Summer.
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