Everyone is painting.... INCLUDING Erin.... Way to go Erin! We knew you were hiding your crafting skills!
Future crafters!
Some of the finished projects!
Will cut wood for brownies! Saturday, November 22, 2008
Craft night part one...
We had another great craft/pizza/brownie night. Thanks to Mikes great WOODWORKING skills (NOT to be confused with CRAFTING skills)... we made some cute snowmen. We all couldn't be there and we want to do some more so we will be doing more this weekend sometime! Here are some highlights:
Everyone is painting.... INCLUDING Erin.... Way to go Erin! We knew you were hiding your crafting skills!
Some of the finished projects!
Will cut wood for brownies!
Everyone is painting.... INCLUDING Erin.... Way to go Erin! We knew you were hiding your crafting skills! Some of the finished projects!Will cut wood for brownies! 
Missionary letter...
We get emails once a week now, but they are pretty short, cuz of time and he can only send one email. So we cherish whatever he can get to us. I guess we should have had him get his typping speed a little faster before he left!
I'm going to try to find out about the dear elder thing. If anyone can tell me anything about it please let me know!
Here are some excerpts:
Hey everyone ola!The highlight of this week was that Jeffery R Holland came here and spoke with us and plastered in our heads that we would never ever think about going home! It was a good and powerful talk. 5 out 6 people in our district got their visas but i get to call home once i get mine so act like i will be here forever until i call. Anyone can send emails but i can only send 1 a week. and i can get pictures.... It is still cold here but it hasn't snowed agian. ... 28 new missionaries came in waiting for visas to brazil this week. 3 came from brazil to learn english so we have been talking to them but it is really hard cuz they talk really fast. My companionship is now a trio with the other elders in my room and its working out really well. My other companion was super funny but it was hard to keep him on track sometimes. anything going on in the outside world? Evrything is the same here. We don't have any classes on thanksgiving so we don't know what we are going to do with all the extra time, we have our days planned to at least every hour. I'm staying busy, there is a thing called dear elder and you write emails to it and i get it in letter form you could try that bye
I'm going to try to find out about the dear elder thing. If anyone can tell me anything about it please let me know!
Here are some excerpts:
Hey everyone ola!The highlight of this week was that Jeffery R Holland came here and spoke with us and plastered in our heads that we would never ever think about going home! It was a good and powerful talk. 5 out 6 people in our district got their visas but i get to call home once i get mine so act like i will be here forever until i call. Anyone can send emails but i can only send 1 a week. and i can get pictures.... It is still cold here but it hasn't snowed agian. ... 28 new missionaries came in waiting for visas to brazil this week. 3 came from brazil to learn english so we have been talking to them but it is really hard cuz they talk really fast. My companionship is now a trio with the other elders in my room and its working out really well. My other companion was super funny but it was hard to keep him on track sometimes. anything going on in the outside world? Evrything is the same here. We don't have any classes on thanksgiving so we don't know what we are going to do with all the extra time, we have our days planned to at least every hour. I'm staying busy, there is a thing called dear elder and you write emails to it and i get it in letter form you could try that bye
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Just one more favorite store....
This is Thursday and that reminded me of one of my other favorite stores.... Real Deals. It's only open two days a week, Thursday and Saturday. It's a decor store. It's on Baseline and McDonald. Very cool stuff and really good prices. Get on their mailing list and they will send you coupons. Here is the link to the Mesa store:
http://www.realdeals.net/AA/flash/index.html
http://www.realdeals.net/AA/flash/index.html
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Another new favorite store...
http://www.hobbylobby.com/home.cfm
One of my new favorite stores is Hobby Lobby! I don't know if anyone remembers the little Hobby Lobby on Gilbert and Baseline.... my boys and I went there lots to get pinewood derby parts and it was quite the men's store. There were model airplanes, rockets, cars and always guys standing around talking guy hobbies... they loved it. So when I saw the new Hobby Lobby open on Greenfield and Baseline, I had flashbacks of ... well.... guy crafts! But was I ever wrong. Girls... if ya haven't been there ya gotta go! They are all over the US, and another one is gonna open just east of me in December. I posted the link, cuz you can get coupons on it. Happy crafting!
One of my new favorite stores is Hobby Lobby! I don't know if anyone remembers the little Hobby Lobby on Gilbert and Baseline.... my boys and I went there lots to get pinewood derby parts and it was quite the men's store. There were model airplanes, rockets, cars and always guys standing around talking guy hobbies... they loved it. So when I saw the new Hobby Lobby open on Greenfield and Baseline, I had flashbacks of ... well.... guy crafts! But was I ever wrong. Girls... if ya haven't been there ya gotta go! They are all over the US, and another one is gonna open just east of me in December. I posted the link, cuz you can get coupons on it. Happy crafting!
Monday, November 17, 2008
And the answer is...
Trent did his Winter Formal answer tonight. Somewhere among those hundreds of sticky notes are the letters .... Y... E... S! Be sure to check back for the Winter Formal "picture".Sunday, November 16, 2008
Email!!!
We got an email from Brandon.... well.... Trent got an email. Brandon couldn't remember mine... guess I should of wrote it down for him! We still don't know about his Visa, but he's having a great time in Provo.... except for the cold. He was only required to bring one suit to warm Brazil and I'm afraid he'll have it worn out before he gets there! Here are some excerpts:
...It'sbeen real fun so far and i am learning a ton of things. Hopefully i get my visa soon because its cold here now and I'm tired of wearing only 1 suit everywhere... This week we taught our first lesson to an actual volunteer investigator. We had to go for 5 min introducing ourselves and getting to know our investigator all in portuguese. Then we taught the lesson in english, My companion and I thought we did really well even though we were nervous at the begining. I've gotten to know my roomies/district/other elders on our floor really well now and its like we've friends forever but its only been a week and a half. Tuesdays we have firesides and general authortity usually come but this week we had enzio bousche and his wife. He use to be in the quarom of the seventy and he told his conversion story and it was amazing. ...Sunday was also a very spiritual day because almost the entire day you are listening to talks and we can walk to the temple, which is bigger inside than it looks, and it is very pretty too. I'm doing fine here at the mtc ...Tchao
...It'sbeen real fun so far and i am learning a ton of things. Hopefully i get my visa soon because its cold here now and I'm tired of wearing only 1 suit everywhere... This week we taught our first lesson to an actual volunteer investigator. We had to go for 5 min introducing ourselves and getting to know our investigator all in portuguese. Then we taught the lesson in english, My companion and I thought we did really well even though we were nervous at the begining. I've gotten to know my roomies/district/other elders on our floor really well now and its like we've friends forever but its only been a week and a half. Tuesdays we have firesides and general authortity usually come but this week we had enzio bousche and his wife. He use to be in the quarom of the seventy and he told his conversion story and it was amazing. ...Sunday was also a very spiritual day because almost the entire day you are listening to talks and we can walk to the temple, which is bigger inside than it looks, and it is very pretty too. I'm doing fine here at the mtc ...Tchao
Winter Formal....
I can't believe it's that time of year again... yep... time for some lucky fellow to be asked to Winter Formal! Trent was surprised the other night when he came home to find his room had been transformed into a winter wonderland! After the ice melted he found that he had been asked by Taylor... I can't reveal his response, so stay tuned for pictures of the "answer"!
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