Dear Kevin-
Wow, your mission chart is now half filled in! Time is flying by. It is hard to believe that
you have been in Brazil for a year now. It is so good to hear from you each
week and of your hard and dedicated work.
Keep it up and you will continue to be blessed and find happiness in the
Lord’s work. You must be a great missionary, if you were able to train your
greenie well enough for him to be a trainer!!!!!! Tell us about your new companion and area.
This week Rachel had 3 lacrosse games. Her team is doing very well- they are
undefeated! This is their last week with
2 more games- we’ll see if they can hold on to that title.
The weather continues to be crazy here- raining, raining,
and raining, then a sunny day. We are starting to wonder if they will ever be
able to pour the cement where they ripped out our sidewalk. We call it the moat now, because it is always
filled up with water.
Me and Jessica have been working a little on building a
structure in the back yard that Jennifer and I started when she was here out of
the wood from the 4 trees we cut down in the front. It is starting to look like something
finally- and hopefully with the sun out this week we can finish it. It is an arbor-gazebo type thing we are
building on the cement. We still have
lots of tree branches stacked in the backyard- I’ll have to come up with some
more projects to make with them or we will just have lots of firewood to burn
this summer!
Rebecca came again for FHE on Monday- and the Elders came
too. Dad gave a nice lesson on one of
the general conference talks, sent Rachel off to lacrosse practice, then played
some liars dice. Rebecca and Jessica
looked up institute classes, and went to one on Tuesday night. Jessica looked pretty excited to get out and
do some socializing- she’s been home a couple weeks now and getting a little
stir crazy. She has been enjoying
cooking and trying out new recipes. I
enjoy her cooking- and her cleaning up the kitchen! She continues to apply for jobs, but hasn’t
had any luck yet. She has done some babysitting
though. Jessica went to Tanasborne Ward
today. Rebecca wasn’t able to- dinner
schedule with her folks didn’t make it possible, but she met up with Jessica
later for the CES fireside. Jessica came
home happy- had a good time at the singles ward, then dinner linger longer,
then the fireside. Things should pick up
socially as the college students start coming home for the summer.
The Relief Society had a birthday party on Thursday- They
had a Jeopardy game, and I was the host.
It was fun. They also had a cake
decorating contest. At home when trying
to decide what cake to make I dug out all our old kid cake pans. The girls voted for the Cookie Monster. So I baked it, Jessica made a giant cookie
for him to hold, and did most of the decorating. It won the most creative. When I was asked to tell about the cake I
told them that I had bought the cake pan for your 1st birthday. And what a coincidence- it was your mission
1yr bday too! So here is a picture of
your cake:
HaPpY 1
Year on your Mission!
We
thought of you as we ate it.
Well, Steven W. is now married. We went to his reception at his parents’
house last night. He looked good, and
Kristi looked very happy. We enjoyed the
refreshments- cake pops (cakes rolled into balls, put on lolly pop sticks and
dipped in chocolate). They are quite the rage here now.
Well, that is all I can think of for this week. Keep up the great work; we continue to pray
for your safety, and success. And have faith in you and your new assignment as
Zone Leader. You’ll do great.
Lots of Love,
MomJ
PS. Do you get to call home for Mother’s Day?
