Dear Jordan,
Happy Birthday this week! You are no longer a teenager. We hope you have a great day on you birthday.
How
are you doing? We finally got a little bit of snow on the ground on
Saturday. It was gone by midday. We still have snow in the mountains and
it is cold (at least to us). The highs are only in the 40s. When we
were walking from Stake Conference last night the wind was blowing so it
felt very cold. I know in MN they received more snow and had much
colder temperatures because they had a big storm roll through from
Alaska and it had Arctic wind with it.
On
Monday we had Family Home Evening and everyone was there. It has been a
little while since everyone has been able to attend. Most of us are
still fighting colds. We are coughing quite a bit. On Tuesday it was
Veteran's Day so I had the day off. I still had to wake up early to put
out the flags. None of the young men came to help so it was just Bruce
and Ann and me. The ground was hard because it was so cold. All the the
girls had school so they couldn't help. I then had a doctor's
appointment and since I am 50 years old, I had him check everything as
well as fill out the scout health form.
I then went to lunch with Trent
Goddard, one of my old co-workers at CoreLogic. We ate at Crown Burger
and talked about our callings, our families, and how we are doing. He is
the bishop in his ward now. I told him about when I was the ward
mission leader and we had the ward FHE. He liked that idea. I then did
some shopping for some plumbing material to replace the shower handles
in the upstairs bathroom and the faucet in the downstairs bathroom.
It
was a training session on anger management.
Trying to remove the old
stuff was a pain and I had to go back to the store a couple of times to
get the right materials. I had turned off the water to replace
everything. When I turned it back on, we didn't have any water pressure.
At first I thought there must be a leak because of the replacement
parts but I checked everything. Fortunately, there were no leaks.
Unfortunately, there was a problem with the pressure regulator. I wasn't
going to play with that so I called Dan Merrill (Dan the Man Plumbing) to find out what the
issue was. He came over and said that he could work on it on Wednesday. I
had asked him to teach the plumbing merit badge a while ago and he was
teaching it that night. We then went to the church and he made it
through all of the requirements that night but it was about 9 pm
when he finished.
On Wednesday I went to work, the girls went to
school, and mom went to work. Dan was able to take care of the problem.
We now have better water pressure. That night the girls did homework and
I went to bed early to try to get rid of the cold. On Thursday we
didn't do much either. On Friday after work I cut some of the long
pieces of rebar from the flags in half. Pete was able to bring me a big
bolt cutter to use. It still took a lot of strength/weight to cut the
steel. Robert bought a new Pilot but it won't be delivered until next
week. We get to buy his used Pilot when his new one arrives. On Saturday
I bought the merit badges for the scouts because we will have a court
of honor this coming week. I had to make a couple of trips to get
everything. I also bought the groceries. When I came home mom asked if I
bought clothes detergent. I hadn't so I had to make another trip.
We
had the adult session of stake conference that night. It was about
"hastening the work." They had three families talk about what they are
doing. It was interesting to me that they are setting good examples to
their neighbors but they aren't doing anything special. President Cook
talked about a family trip they took this year to Scotland. They were
having trouble finding information on a particular person who lived in
Scotland so they went searching. They didn't find anything where they
thought they would. They took a drive and were inspired to ask if there
were any cemeteries nearby. There was and in the cemetery was the
headstone of the person they were looking for. When they got back to the
hotel they were staying at, they talked to the host who had the same
last name from the headstone. He brought out several inches thick
records of family history for them to use.
On Sunday the speakers talked
about faith, hope, and charity. President Hilton talked about the rules
of three with time. For example 3 seconds to change a thought, 3 weeks
to make a habit, etc. We will go to Robert's house early because we are
doing the burritos and we will cook them at his house. One final thing
about stake conference but not our stake conference. Mom said that Karen
and Lance took Benn Stamps with them to their stake conference which
also happened to be on "hastening the work." After the conference Benn
decided that he will submit his mission papers.
I asked the girls to send you emails for your birthday but to send them today. Hopefully they will.
Keep
working hard and studying the language. How are your language skills
now? Do you hold your own conversations with others or do you still want
others to help? How is Elder Ahn doing?
We love you. You are always in our thoughts and in our prayers. You are great.
Love,
Bekah, dad, Mom, Sarah, Hannah, Rachel
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