To Nick from the Family
dear Nick;
Guess I get to start your letter today, I've been trying to get
vacation pictures in order and I see I have been really remiss about
dates--especially years. when looking through some of my old letters I
see my cousin's daughter and her husband were mission presidents in
Argentina. now I guess I will have to write my cousin Stirley and ask
Sue's married name and what year they were there. we had a re4ally
nice 4th of July- it rained and was so cool and comfortable. yesterday
dad came in with the goofiest smile on his face, I knew he wanted
something but everything I suggested was not right so finally I turned
TV on so he could watch the news- about 1/2 hour later he said he was
hungry (he had thrown away his dinner) I went through the list of what
I could fix, finally he say's "what about a taco" guess that's what
he had been wanting all day and didn't dare ask for. the Diamondbacks
are not doing well so we are not getting free tacos, hope things pick
up soon. that's all my exciting news. Love you, grandma
Dear Big Little Brother,
I gave you a synopsis of what I would like to have done over the
course of the last week. I did it. Those 2 dates were good. The first
was a double date with me and sammi, Micheal and Mary and we went to a
new movie called Brave. It sucked… but afterwards we went to ice
cream and that was delectable. Then I went on a date to go bowling,
and it was awesome. Liz Gunnel is a twin, went to westwood, and is
really, really awesome! Institute was good on Thursday. The fourth of
July wasn't as good as I had hoped though. Basically life is good. I
am going to ask you Once again what did you do to my Tie!!!!
Hahahahaha Don't worry bout it. I like a good story though.( Feel free
to embellish it as much as you want.) I am off to California this
weekend. Keep on Keeping on.
-Alex Hansen!
Nick,
Nothing much happened this week. Matt just really wants to know what
you thought of his letter to you from last time.
Sam and Matt
Hi.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mohandas Gandhi
I copied that off the sticky note on the computer. You're welcome.
- Matt
Hi Nick,
I guess everyone is trying to keep it short since you have 2 emails to
plow through. We are doing ok. Dad and I are tired of the HEAT. It
was even below than 100 for the Fourth. First for a lot of years.
So, only 6 more shifts until I'm done with work. Dad taught
priesthood lesson today. He was called to be the employment
specialist. I'm the Provident Living Specialist. I've heard they've
changed things up at the cannery. Guess I'll find out the details on
that now. Sort of funny. I don't need any food storage at all since
we moved. Probably not for the next 10 years or so at least. Oh
well….
I'm struggling to know what to write. You can expect a package in the
future - about a month or so. Did you ever get the last package I
sent before you went to Argentina? I hope so. It had some fun stuff
in it - at least Alex and I thought so.
Not sure what pics to send. I'll work on that either tomorrow or
during the week. Love you lots, Mom
Nick,
Mom said it all. Priesthood lesson was on missionary work. We keep
praying for you. There are pathetic letter writer in your family. I
think you do the best at writing, which I find humorous since before
your mission you always tried to give inadequate responses to
inquiries.
Dad
From Nick to the Family
What a week. Woof. The space bar is crazy weird on this keyboard. Make do, will I. Trying to think of what to write. One thing that I´ve been doing round these parts is going on exchanges every week, because my comp is the district leader. A little bit harder to get used to, but a good experience. Get to know some other areas a bit better, and get to know other missionaries a bit better. For example, I learned I need to speak more Spanish with my comp, because if I don´t and I get a native comp, I just won´t do as well as I could. Overall, I´m still alive. And an interesting fact I thought you might like to know. The fruits they have here are no different than in the states. Bananas, apples, oranges, pears are the basics. Not really anything else. It really doesn´t taste any different either. It is cheaper though, overall. Thank goodness. Today we are going to make chocolate chip cookies. We finally found out where to buy chocolate chips and brown sugar. Pretty exciting. Welp, on to the next.
Gma & Gpa - Wonderful wonderful. I haven´t seen any Taco Bells around these parts. They´ve got McDonald´s and Burger King, but not Taco Bell. In general, they really don´t have Mexican food as it is generally know - tacos, burritos, quesadillas. A little sad, but I will make it through. I can make it if I find the ingredients easily enough. Good to know you´re enjoying the golf cart though.
Matt & Sam - What an interesting thing to read. Sounds like San Diego was quite the interesting trip. I liked the part about how you went to the aquarium place and saw the same animals as they did in San Diego. Very clever. I can only imagine how much time it took you to write that. I´m also just imagining how much faster I could type on an uncrippled keyboard. Bleh.
Alex - Seems like you had quite the little festival the past two weeks. Dates and work and movies and frisbee and fun. And as I said, I´ll explain the tie a few years down the road, perhaps.
Matt - And thus end the days of PayPal. Dun dun dun. As a missionary I´ve learned the value of impulse food purchases. They are often quite nice. Strawberries and dipping chocolate sounds pretty nice. Strawberries aren´t in season here yet though. When they are though, I´m going to eat them with my cereal in the morning. And as for pizza dough, our branch president here showed us how he makes it when we went over to eat. I´m thinking we might try it sometime. Make a barbecue and chicken pizza, something unseen round these parts. They don´t have ranch here though. Someone should send me a recipe to make ranch, if that is possible. If not, might have to experiment with mayonnaise. Hmm. Remember to send it.
Dad - Hehe. Good to know. Good luck with your calling as Ward Employment person. Maybe you can fill me in with info when I get back.
Mom - And the mom, provident living specialist. I´ve always known what it meant, but it wasn´t until now that I really thought about it. What in the world does provident mean? Providence. Ummm.. Seems like provident living would be when you´re living very well. And I would love to say that I received the package you had sent. I´m about very certain that I did receive it. But my memory ain´t always so sweet. I accidentally wrote sweet instead of good because my companion was talking about cookies. Pics would be cool when you could get em off. Hope all is going well there.
And thus, dearest family, is this letter ended. Love you all!
With sincerity,
Elder Hansen
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