March 1, 2021

oseph Ross every time I think of you my heart is filled with joy. I’m so grateful for you and love you so much. You inspire all of us. Every time we think about you, read your letters, pray for you, talk about you, we just get happy. You are doing more good than I think you understand and you are inspiring more people than you know. We love you so very much. We’re so excited to hear about your week! Did Ethan’s baptism go through and how did that go? Did his best friend get home from his mission?How is your new area and everything that’s going on? We’d love to hear about all the teaching. Any more $119 McDonald’s orders this week? I heard a super cool story in one word conference I was attending yesterday. A bishop told about how he was just a newlywed in a West Jordan townhome and he was assigned a boy named Jake to be the home teacher too. He called Jake introduced himself and Jake hung up on him. He said for whatever reason he called him back two minutes later and said hey Jake I think we got disconnected somehow, and there was silence on the line, and then he said yeah I don’t know what happened.Two years later Bishop Sorensen was his escort as he was in doubt in the temple before he got married. We were relating things to the story of Lazarus and he said I don’t think the stone is ever completely sealed on anybody. That stone can always be rolled away in the Lords way in the Lords timing but that tomb is never really seal on anybody. I loved that. Spenny got a scholarship to SUU so John’s pushing hard to get him down there. I’m trying to do logarithms on my math. We had a super fun weekend with Sam and his mom up in Idaho at a dance competition. They’ve pretty much canceled Covid in Idaho nobody was really wearing masks or anything it was pretty great. Dad is having a little setback not doing quite as well which I guess is to be expected the first few days were kind of euphoric we thought we were going to avoid most of the grief and pain but He’s suffering quite a bit right now. Overall it’s been so so so much better than we thought even with this little setback. We had so much fun with Ailee Jane in Sacrament meeting yesterday. She came in with her beautiful little dress actually she had two dresses on and her little mask and she was so quiet and reverent and darling reading books with Joseph and thinking about Jesus during the sacrament it was so fun. She is growing up so much. We got to meet Dallin and Megan‘s baby over the weekend when Annie and I were in Logan. She is absolutely gorgeous it was so fun. Her name is Addie May. Look on Christy‘s Facebook page for a video of Bryce meeting Addie Mae. It’s the sweetest thing in the whole world. Did you hear about all the cousins that got into BYU? Eli and Ryan and Brigham and you. It’s going to be a huge party. Life is so incredibly intense for me right now trying to get through 18 credits and I’m adding seminary into the program starting a week from Wednesday. I just keep thinking that I’m earning my summer and if I can do this and pull it off and graduate in April then I get to be a mom this summer and I’m so excited. One of the things that helps me feel the spirit most when I think about is being a better missionary. I have a personal goal to have every single neighbor over. The missionaries taught Destiny Dowdle and family this week. I just want to have all of our nonmember and different member in different church and no church neighbors over and be the best neighbor that they’ve ever had. Every time I think about doing that my spirit my heart just sores with joy. We’re having fun with baby Charlie in the basement as well. He’s very cute.