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Hey Braden,

How are things going? Was was your big meeting with Elder Bednar? 

So I'm sending your package tomorrow, I know I said I'd send it last week but never got to it.  Also, I keep forgetting to get your sunglasses out of your car. and when I think of it, the car is at dad's work. 

Things that happened last week. Ethan went to the ortho and had to have part of his gum cut off so his tooth will come in. His mouth was sore for a few days. But his teeth are looking so much better. He is loving Karate and of course school. The new semester started and he comes home and tells us what happened in each of his classes. At least he isn't bored.

Zach took the driving test on Thursday in school and finds out tomorrow if he passed. If he did-off to the DMV for his drivers permit. I'm a little (a lot)scared! And it just hit me that he will be old enough to date in a few months-wow-now i'm scared and nervous.

Paige asked a boy to the sweet hearts dance- I'm sure she'll tell you all about it. If not ask her too. She is still looking for a job.  She applied to BYU and BYU Idaho. We'll see if she gets accepted.

Parker got roller skates for Christmas and uses them all of the time-to go to school, to friends, even friends just across the street. uses we need to go to Classic skating again so he can show off.

Hope is full of ideas and planning camp outs and vacations. Her new favorite game is murder in the dark. Even though she says it scares her a little. She gets all of us playing sand it is so hard not to laugh cause she says the funniest things when she is the murderer and we know exactly where she is. She told the boys after she killed me, "boys, run for your lives"! She is getting better at playing though.

I am actually feeling a lot better. Still not recovered fully though. I started taking the allergy drops instead of the shots-trying to get over all of these sinus infections.  They didn't tell me until I got to my first appointment that for now on, I get to carry EPI pens with me at all times incase I have a severe reaction at home.  I even got a trainer pen to practice with. I made all of the kids (minus Hope) learn how to give them to me just incase. What joys! NOT!!

Anyways, I have rambled for a while, so I better let you go---

Oh, but first I have to tell you. President Spencer got a new baby girl this week.  The birth mother decided just three weeks ago that she wanted them to be the adoptive parents. They are real excited and tired because of no sleep. Hope now thinks that she needs a baby. Not gonna happen.

Take care and pray often.

Love you so so much, MOM

Sounds like a lot of stuff is happening! I dont understand Ethan and i dont think i ever will WHO LIKES SCHOOL SERIOUSLY!!!! sure its fun for the first few days but after you realize that you really dont like it at all. Sounds like he went through a lot of pain, The dentist of the mission came and cleaned a lots of our teeth. lucky for me i didnt have to :) :)  Wait Zach took the test again!! OH NO!! RUN!!! Lucky for me im on the other side of the world! i dont he can get me now HAHAHA! He will never be old enough to Date are you kidding me haha jk! that is scary though. Paige never emailed me shame on that girl i will have to yell at her. at least parker is putting use into his christmas gift. Hope is so funny haha. she makes me laugh that one does. So i found out that Star Wars 7, 8, and 9 are coming out CANT WAIT!!! i wonder how they are going to continue the story though. (it comes out 2015, the year i get home) Sounds like you get to carry needles around not fun!! i think i had enough of those just to come here to africa....im not kidding.  how many kids do the spencers have now? 3?  Elder Bednar was a BLAST!! he made the meeting into a conversation which was awesome unfortunately we didnt get to meet him up close. besides that it was awesome! Thngs are going slow here and we have a lot of finding to do.

How was your week?  How was the meeting with Elder Bednar? Any interesting stories?

The week went by pretty fast. I had to go to my allergy specialist to see if he could do anything for my sinus infection. Now I get to do a sinus rinse 3 times a day with guess what in it---baby shampoo. Sounds strange but hopefully it works. Oh and also a steroid.  My allergist is by grandparent R's house and so Granda watched Hope while I went and then we visited for a while. Now Hope wants to go back. She also wants to go to Grandparent E's. The kids have Monday off of school for Martin Luther King day and so Hope got the idea that we should go to Arizona on Monday. She was sad when we told her that we needed more than 1 day to visit  Hope also has the idea that we need to go to a hotel with the big letter H on it. Remember we stayed at the Holiday inn on the way back from Arizona? I don't know how she remembers but she does. We told her that we might stay at a hotel for spring break. Now she is counting the months and already packing a suit case.

The other kids are doing well. Busy with school work and friends.

My talk went well today. I had to kind of expand my talk because the youth speaker didn't show up. Of course I was nervous, I always am, but to make things worse, President Spencer showed up for the meeting at the last minute. Glad that it is over.

Paige had an appointment with President Bunnel today. He asked her to speak at the youth fireside that they have for Stake Conference. So now she is the next one to speak in the family. When she got home she was saying "really? out of all of the Young Women the choose Me?. She'll do a great job though. She always does.

Hope things are going well for you.

Love ya lots, MOM

When you don't feel like praying, pray until you do.

MOM,

so now your breaking the word of wisdom SHAME ON YOU!! Just Kidding!!!  Hope is a funny one indeed!!! and has a very good memory when it comes to that kind of stuff. paige will do well with her talk