October 15, 2023

Hi most precious angel of my life! I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU! I have that tingly Christmas feeling thinking that TOMORROW IS MONDAY! I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR EVERYTHING AND SEE YOUR BEAUTIFUL FACE! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! Can't wait for all of your news! How is every tiny thing? How are you? How is your heart? How are your feelings? How was your week? How is your companion? Is she feeling better? Are you sick now from the floaty juice? Do you have any idea how much we love you? Things are wild and wonderful here. SO SO EXCITED for Nate and Rissa- it is SO SWEET. She is everything we've prayed for. Friday was baking day at jello's and lined pans were everywhere. She is cooking most of her own desserts for the wedding. It is going to be so fun and very tender in that sealing room. Their sealing clearance came through and they will be sealed in the beautiful Saratoga Springs temple in that nice big room with the purple and blue flowers in the stained glass. She is so happy. Oh, so sweet. Here is the wedding song written mostly by Brigham. Might have cried over the pic of Ben and Levi in little matching church clothes. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_jXcWrbvvfclqvknPSFYSyyZ9DJVm2c3Qt4h2N4cU7s/edit?usp=sharing This week- so many precious things. SETH'S FIRST DATE! He is so wonderful-comin down the stairs in his dry cleaned suit , putting flowers on her wrist, tryin to make it all day even though he didn't feel good ( he has hand foot and mouth but were keepin it on the hush, he only needs to not kiss people, he's not terribly contagious, but he's really sick. I think he got worn out to the bone over homecoming. . - Sam freakin nailed his homecoming, such a humble pure witness of Christ. It was incredible. His entire talk was just a beautiful witness of Christ. The Special Olympics was such a win. We got to go on Friday night, national anthem, pump up song and karaoke and dance. sacred stuff, and dreams are coming true. I took 8 kids packed in Jellos green van and they were screeching songs all the way home-it was magic. Sam came and helped and wouldn't let me pay him. Really appreciate him this week. He's softer. Ailee Jane got new glasses. Her eyesight was so so bad. She put on the glasses and said "the floor has bumps". she had never seen the texture in the floor before. Little angel. I love that lady. Her prescription was worse than Scott's, and his is really bad. Jen is wondering if that's part of the reason she's been frustrated. It was the primary program today. Very sweet moments as all the little precious souls sang Gethsemane in sign language. I'm grateful for Jesus.He loves and helps me all the time and I need him all the time. He helped me and multiplied my little offerings. It would be so easy to not to, not serve, not help, not try, not create and engage and build and do, but just to hide in a corner and just not do all the things and all the stuff, but I am so in debt to my Heavenly Father-and I love Jesus so much-and I want to help them in their work. I'm hoping to add points to the board in my imperfect way. Spenny and Kaela came in about 10:30 Friday ngith and surprised us! IT IS SO AWESOME! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH! They are on "vacation", fall break, and her activity of choice was to clean and organize the basement. she is so into it. She wants to make it a super nice guest suite down there. She's obsessed with organizing and I am a willing and needy test subject. Doing flowers tomorrow for the wedding. I love that so much. God made flowers for weddings, everything else is just a bonus. Look at these pics I found while looking for something else....my precious baby girl. Baby showers for Marla and Lydia on Saturday-it was wonderful. Marla was so sweet. She is so broken-hearted because her mom was denied a visa again. She was going to come for the baby. It's so awful. She's had several friend's moms come easily but her mom has been denied 4 times. Lots of tears. Taylor is in law school at the U and doing great. The baby will be born October 26th-sweet little girl. Theater is so fun and i love it so so much and its tons of work and my life is still out of balance and the dishwasher is broken and we look like white trash out by the garbage cans and the truck is a mess and I wish i was better at all of it sometimes, but I get a tingly feeling when I get to lesson prep theater and a tingly feeling when the awesome kids come in, and there are moments of pure magic at home and at theater. Friday morning was so fun. Sam and Abby and I at the table, all of us working on her sterling scholar portfolios and extra bonus pages. It was very fun. Had a little miracle with Meredith-she's going to take the love and logic classes. Still hard there though. Friday night was crazy awesome. Spen and Kaela in the basement, Bekah and Coy in Spen and Joseph's room, Joseph and Alee in your room, Sam in the castle. We stayed up so so late just talkin and laughin. LOVE THOSE NIGHTS. I paid $2000 in tithing and $500 in fast. I'm telling you because it is cold hard evidence of the warm and wonderful missionary blessings YOU ARE BRINGING US. Alee is loving her classes so much. Spen's next class is a leadership class and he's been reading How to Measure your Life by Clayton Christensen-so good. He is so good. The world does not deserve that boy. We've had the boys here a lot this week too and it's absolute heaven. I put up the bounce house and they LOVED IT. I put up Grandpa Walker's horse swing and fixed the dolphin swing- I think we'll just keep putting lots of swings in the bark area and make it super fun. The boys are so precious and so funny and so wonderful. Marcus did his first prank. I think I told you. He put the horsies and leo the stuffed dog in Dad's bed and just laughed. He laughs when we tell the story too. Oh one night last week- a rainy late Monday night Seth drove to Mckay and Lydia's at like 8:00 at night and Mooks helped him with math and I just got to talk to Lydia for a long time. It was awesome. Their little house is so cute. The spirit told me quite directly to invite Kenzie Bean to theater and she is coming Thursday. They are the family that moved into Pedersen's house. I think it would be so hard to move when you are 14. Oh Nansy girl-I LOVE LOVE LOVE my social work class. I just eat up every word, quote, idea and story. It is so exciting to me. It's basically a degree in how to help people and how to help people better and I LOVE IT. also Dan and Natalie are moving in with her parents to save money and we are going to take care of the chickens. So we have chickens now. Still staying so busy with compost-have 7 deliveries tomorrow! Can't believe it. I'm tryin Nans. I'm trying. I love you so much and wish I could do more and better to help and support. JUST SO PROUD OF YOU! This is your mountain that you CHOSE and VOLUNTEERED to climb! You don't have to serve, but you choose to thank, worship, let God prevail and submit to His will for you-it's all so beautiful. Do you think some of the true signs of maturity are realizing it's not about us- we don't have to bring up good things we've done in the first 2 or 3 minutes of conversation with anyone for validation- and realizing that just maybe, maybe we could be wrong sometimes? I'm just saying this because I should try this out sometime-this letter is all about me. 😱😧 I love this quote I came across this week- I think I already shared it with you but it's delicious-worth another look- “This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” ― George Bernard Shaw Thoroughly used up-livin our best life-YOU'RE DOING IT! As we always talk about-the best life is the worst life, it is finding something you love enough to be miserable for. That's what Jesus did, and does, and will do forever. CAN'T WAIT TO TALK TO YOU! Love, Momzies