4/7/19 - Family Letter to Emma
YO YO Emma!
How ya doin? I got an application for NJHS,
and I get to turn it in tomorrow.
I also went skiing with Logan. It as pretty weird.
My life has been pretty uneventful otherwise.
Love from
Hyrum
Hi Emma,
was up?
I had a birthday party on Friday!
LOTS OF GIRLS CAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE TOILET PAPERED JAME'S , CHASE'S , AND JACE'S HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any way... LIFE IS GREAT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a great week !
Mari
Sweet Emma,
I hope you were able to participate in General Conference. Did any
investigators come? We were thinking about you and wondered what
inspiration you felt. I learned so much! A few things stood out to
me: This is the Lord's work! He could do his work without
us but He allows us to help for OUR benefit. This brought me comfort
because I feel responsible for so many things in YW. Sometimes I wonder
if everything will work out....I don't have to worry, I just have to
try. The other thing I was reminded was that
everything we do in the Church is to help prepare people for the 2nd
Coming of the Savior. I felt His approval that the countless hours I
spend working on Trek and other Stake YW stuff is helping to prepare
these precious youth. It was a good feeling. I
also felt that I need to write Grandpops a letter inviting him to
return to church activity. I'm not sure what I'll say...and he might
disown me even more...but it is worth because of the chance that it
might work.
Also, so cool about a Temple in the Tooele Valley!
This was a pretty chill week. Mari's party was crazy. I'll send
pictures. I laugh at their conversations: (while watching "Game Plan",
the ROCK starts the movie working out and flexing his muscles) the
girls where going crazy for his muscles....the "Hotty
with a Body". Also, they went crazy trashing Chandlers, Burtons and
Wilfert's houses (it was more like low-key littering because they still
haven't figured out how to T.P. properly). Crazy tweens!
Dad and I did another Trek Ma and Pa training this week. It went well.
A few youth from each ward were called to be Big Brothers and Sisters
on Trek. They will get to meet/coordinate with their assigned Ma/Pa
ahead of time. The Big Bro/Sis came to the meeting
also. They will be at those meetings from now until Trek. Eve is one
of the Big Sisters. Next month they will start working out
games/skits/stories with their Ma/Pa. It will be fun to see if these
Big Bro/Sis' help the families to bond faster. It's all
about helping encourage the youth to lead.
We are also preparing for our Stake Youth Service Project helping with
the planting/beautifying at the Oquirrh Mountain and Jordan River
Temples. (I think I told you about this already). Anyway, President
Steed asked me to give a brief devotional the morning
of our Service Project. I am thinking of telling the youth how the
Temple Grounds are a Holy Place too. They are an extension of the
Temple where people can go to feel peace and comfort, find answers, and
feel Heavenly Father's love for them. The Temple
Grounds help those who are not currently worthy to enter the Temple,
have a place to go for peace. Their are also many symbolic things about
the gardens, such as the color of flowers that are planted near the
entrance to the temple are meant to evoke feelings
of reverence and peace (lavender, white, green, pastel pinks etc.)
while the colors used near the road are more bright and vibrant (yellow,
red, fuchsia, etc.) I'm honored to do this!
We started planting our garden this weekend. I planted celery! I will
plant peas/beans this week. Hyrum has been working on tearing out the
fire pit so we can redo it with an above ground fire pit. It should be
much nicer. We also bought the new Mary Poppins
Returns movie, and AquaMan. Fun stuff.
Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful week. I love you so much!
💜Mom
M,
Gnarly pictures of your parasite. Be careful and take good care of
yourself. You want to make sure the only thing you bring home is the
memory of your experiences and the love of the Brazilian people, nothing
else. Nothing is welcome to come home with you
and linger until we can get you properly cleansed.
This week was pretty low key as we got prepared for Conference. We did
our usual traditions. Felt like we were called to repentance this
Conference. I think it is funny that we did not have any big
announcement of change this Conference. There were a lot
of rumors but no announcement. I think it is smart to not have any
changes at Conference so we don't get used to Conference being anything
other than the teaching of doctrine. How do you get to watch Conference
as a missionary? Do you get to see all sessions?
Did you get any investigators to come?
Mari's birthday party was crazy. I tried to stay out of it as much as
possible. Since her end of year party last year these girls are
expecting to participate in a little mischief. Last Summer the
Chandlers rallied some boys and came and sillystringed the
party. The girls responded by wanting to through rocks at the
Chandlers home. This time they decided as part of the party that they
wanted to toilet paper something. The Chandlers were not home so they
decided to toilet paper the Burton's and Wilfert's
home. They walked down the street making all the noise they could. I
drove the van down to observe and coach them a bit. What they did was a
kin to low level littering. When they were done they screamed and ran
but they would not stop screaming until they
were to the next circle. When they got back they decided they wanted
to toilet paper the Chandlers anyway. When they were done they ran and
screamed all the way back. The Chandlers boys got home and knew what
happened. They brought it all back. The girls
saw it and took it all over there again. I don't know how many more of
these we can handle. They all come expecting to get into some
trouble. Everyone left happy and we got busy building our tent for
Conference.
During the Priesthood session of Conference the girls helped Grandma
organize old photos so she can scan them and make them digital. It was
fun/embarrassing to see these photos and reminisce. Eve did some
significant eyerolling at some high school pictures
of your Mom and I. I was hoping we could steal and destroy some of
those before they became digital. I'm still working on organizing our
pictures and make videos of our old vacations. It will be neat to have
some of those old pictures to add to our library.
Keep up the good work kid. I hope you and all the other Sisters are
getting along and seeing eye to eye. Keep working and serving and good
things will always happen. I'm proud of you.
Love
Dad
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