transfer to kajjansi

Hey Elder,

How are things going? Eating anything strange lately? Have you heard about transfers yet?

Any baptisms?

Josh Shipp spoke in our ward today. He has been home for almost a month. He stood up and said it was good to see us because he thought that we had all become inactive. That's because the ward split while he was gone and we aren't in his ward anymore. He gave a talk on the importance of the temple. It was rally good.

Hope had her tonsils and adenoids out on Tuesday.  Apparently, she had extra adenoid tissue so the doctor removed most of it.  The poor girl has been in a lot of pain most of the last few days.  Yesterday, she was up and playing and doing good but today she is having a rough time.  Since I told someone that I would sub in primary for them today, Dad stayed home with her.

Hopefully, she will start doing better in the next couple of days.

We found out from Parker's teacher that he hasn't been doing a lot of his home work and she is concerned. Guess what BIG homework he hasn't been working on...the science fair project.  Dad came up with a good one and they did most of the work on Saturday.  He is experimenting on which potatoes give off the most electricity current. It is the RED one, thought you might want to know. We just have to put his poster together and he is good to go. Now to catch up on all the math homework, silly boy.

Zach gave his 2 week notice at Smash Burger's. I don't blame him, they don't work him very much. He worked 1 day out of 3 weeks last month. Not very good odds. He is looking for a new job.

Paige is loving college life.  We have skipped with her  a few times and talked to her on the phone. And of course see the pictures she's tagged in.

The big Stake Relief Society training went over very well.  Now I can breathe for a while before all the madness of visiting wards and doing ward training begin in 1 week.  We get to feed the visiting Seventy, his wife and the Stake presidency and their wives on January 31 for Stake Conference also. Crazy, busy, calling but I love it.

SPA=Spiritually Prepared Always

Love ya lots, Mom

Fwd: audition success, tonsils, rough we

On 1/19/15, Loren J Erickson
> Hey Elder,
> How are you?  Are you down to a single companion now?  How are the baptisms
> coming?  Seems like you had a few in the works.  I hope you are emotionally
> well and healthy.  Remember to eat and drink enough for your body's needs.
> Walking all those miles is taking a toll, I'll bet.
>
> The house is feeling pretty empty with both you and Paige gone.  I've found
> myself counting heads several times.
>
> Paige is having no trouble adjusting to college life, I think.  I keep
> seeking photos shared on facebook with her in them.  Her roommates are
> apparently pretty cool and there seems to be a party at her apartment quite
> often.  Might be because we let her take the Wii with her.
>
> It's been a pretty busy week.  At least it feels like it.  Work is in
> crunch mode.  I'm under a lot of pressure to get some bugs fixed.  Not sure
> there will be enough time.  May be working some late hours this week.
>
> Hope had her tonsils out on Tuesday.  She had a few more growths than
> usual, so the procedure took longer, and I think her recovery is taking a
> little longer too.  She is not a happy camper.  Can't eat much without
> hurting her throat.  We keep giving her pain medicine but it seems to be
> only barely managing the pain.  Include her in your prayers, please.
>
> Ethan is going ice fishing soon, don't recall exactly when, but I think
> he's excited.  Zach really liked it when he went.  Did you ever do that?
>
> Parker's piano teacher dropped him from her students.  She said he had
> missed too many lessons, even though we told her that he was not going to
> be coming during the holidays.  So we put him in Tae Kwon Do with Ethan.
> He seems to be pretty happy about that.  We'll see when the punches start
> flying.
>
> Zach quit his job at Smashburger a while back.  They were only scheduling
> him for 1 day a week, so his 2 week paychecks were pretty pitiful.  He says
> he is going to try to find another one, but I'm not sure how motivated he
> is.
>
> Mom had a big stake Relief Society training session that she put a lot of
> planning into.  She had to set up most of it herself because the other
> presidency members were going back and forth to home because they kept
> forgetting things.  Anyway, she planned a cute object lesson to help the
> sisters understand that it was not the decorations or color coordination
> that makes the lesson, but a focus on the scriptures and on Christ.  Sounds
> like it was a big success.
>
> I think I told you about auditioning for the Millennial Choirs and
> Orchestra, didn't I?  It's a national group that has chapters in Utah,
> Arizona, California and elsewhere.  They've only been in Utah for just over
> a year, and I had never heard of them before.  They do two concerts a year,
> one for Easter and another for Christmas (actually it sounds like there may
> be more concerts around Christmas time).
>
> The audition went pretty well. I think they mistook me for a bass because
> they had me do the bass scales first and I got down pretty low, maybe a low
> E (one line below the bottom the bass staff).  Then they asked whether I
> sang baritone or bass in the Messiah, and I told them first tenor.  So then
> they ran me through the tenor scales and I got up to an A (one line above
> the top of the treble staff).  Then I had to sing the melody of America the
> Beautiful, and the tenor part of All Glory Laud and Honor, during which the
> two people doing the auditions sang with me (I guess to see if I could
> blend).  Well, I guess I can because they accepted me as a second tenor.  I
> wish you could be home to hear the easter concert, but I know that's not to
> be.  Definitely the Christmas one though.  :)
>
> Long letter, sorry.  Remember the basics: prayers, scriptures, hard work.
> You are doing a marvelous work and a wonder.
>
> Love,
> Dad

Sounds like a lot is going on, We got transfer news and i am already
leaving for a new area supprise huh! i am going to be going to
kajjansi and i will be "Killing" someone  they are about to go come so
fun stuff i guess. we did have a baptism and almost a confermation
but they were late.