HELLLLLOOOOOOO CHICK HAM LEGS!!!!!  Oh we miss your face, your eyeballs, your guts, your crazy D.I. sweaters, your "shut up and fight me's", your loop pedal songs, your crazy hairbrained wild ideas to do with your 100 closest friends, your hair, your peacemaking, your funnies, your spirits, your excitement for life, your help with math for all the kids, your fun highschool stuffs to go to, your funny and wonderful prayers, your scrumptious delicious attitude about life and how every day was an exciting adventure, your funny stories at dinner, your wrastlin, your loves and stuff, but I guess we still have your loves, it just has to go across all of the world minus one half. We miss a million more things than this.  Just a flava. of our achin hearts for you, but proud and happy and joyous and prayerful hearts, too. 

HOW ARE YOU! Have you had nightmares about being chased by a 20 pound monkey? We thought it was pretty funny that you "weren't allowed to ride your bikes in the typhoon" so you walked.  Isn't that kind of like "Blasting Zone ahead?"  "Wow, that was a bad blasting zone!  Shouldn't that sign read, "Typhoon, stay home?"  I LOVE YOUR CRAZY FACE! Oh, but wait you said you "had a blast with it", so I guess we're all okay. ?

How is Guo Baba?How is Daniel?  How is Ling Tai Tai?  How is the new Bishop doing? Howard and his jamming fingers? HOW WAS GENERAL CONFERENCE!  How is Paul?

How are you? How are you and Elder Redding doing on complete and total and 100% awesome obedience?   How am I doing....YEA SUNDAY! YEA REPENTANCE! I AM FULL OF GOALS AND HOPE AND FAITH AND HAPPINESS!

Oh my darling chunks of love and tenderness, you make me so happy.  Nobody makes anyobdy happy, we all choose, but you HELP ME CHOOSE to be so happy!!  I LOVE YOU! What did I EVER do to get you.  Maybe that was a trial on your part :).

Newsy News from Noodleville:

• Nate and Nic were sealed!  Hallelujah!  It was SO SO PRECIOUS!  The sealer was very tender.  It has been a long journey for those two precious people.  He talked about the sealing covenant being the culmination of all of our temple covenants and the purpose of the church. Elder Packer taught that the end purpose of all we do in the church is that parents and children are happy at home, sealed to their geneartions and linked in eternity. That's why we do all the stuffs. That's why you do all your stuffs. LOVE IT!
• We had a concert this week and it was SO FUN. Annie and the other NAP sisters sang Free Fallin, Rather Be, and I'll Fly Away. Seth absolutely rocked the lion kind medley and ABC from JACKSON 5.
• I chase Seth's naughtly little escaping thighs around all day trying to make him do home school. He is such high drama, nothing is ever casual.
• I need to pluck my eyebrows and I have bought no less than 5 pair of tweezers and can't find one. Life is claunchy, that is my new word and i LOVE IT. Life is claunchy and messy and deliciously perfect in it's imperfection.
• Wesley Kyle cut up tomatoes and bottled 69 quarts for 5 straight hours with Grandma and I. Jim Drury and told us to come up and get tomatoes cuz they were going bad and we did. 
• Oh, Mook, it's been kind of scary with Jared Morse. He got a terrible staff infection in the wound from his surgery, but he is home now and doing a little better. They are still not sure how they are going to treat the cancer.  The ward is all very emotional and doing lots of fasting and prayer.
• James Larsen got married in the temple on Friday! It was a beautiful wedding. I'm so happy for him. Jake Bowman was married in the temple Thursday. It was so fun to see Tommy, Jake Garner, John Hunt, Coy, other friends all together.  We are so blessed to live in such a connected, loving and just Zion heavenly community. I just love love love our ward, our people.
• Monday we toured the new Church Museum where Joseph played young Orson Pratt. The museum is AWESOME. Instead of lots of artifacts. It teaches the restoration. Complete renovation.  Now it is much more of a missionary tool.
• We are trying to rock Preach My Gospel in the mornings, Spen, Joseph, Wesley, Coy and I.  Awesome spirit. Any mission prep advice PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! 
• Annie is so darling tending the little baby all week. She is infinitely happier if she has a baby around. 
• We are packing for Zimbabwe tomorrow. I just love that. We are trying to go to Mexico for a humanitarian trip for Christmas.
• Coy was able to report on his mission to the high council this morning. it was so amazing to hear three missionaries testify of the joy of service, how the mission has changed their lives, how much they love the Savior. It was a beautiful experience. 
• I have a big fat juicy letter coming to you snail mail.  
• Please tell me how I can better support you... PLEASE! 

My personal spiritual quest right now is to set my life to the cadence, rhythm and melody of the song of redeeming love.  In Alma 5 where it asks, "Can ye feel so now" it is my passion to always be able to do a toyota jump and say YES YES YES!   I just loved Elder Uchtdorf's talk about not letting the beautiful flower of the gospel get buried in weight of expectations. LOVE IT!

I LOVE YOUR FACE OFF! WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU!