green. Matt and I left at 4ish yesterday afternoon and spent a lovely
1hr20 min at Anthem on the freeway as it was shutdown. Then drove out
of a massive rainstorm. Otherwise the trip was uneventful. Got here
and slept through church. We did eat a nice Sunday dinner.
Karen is staying with Grandma since she broke her leg for the 2nd
time. She is using a walker and recuperating until she can go to her
house that has more steps.
I brought a box of quilt material and stuff, plus my sewing machine,
one of the little fold up tables, etc. I should be set to be sort of
productive.
Was good to have my last day at work for a while – feels good not to
have to worry about it for awhile.
So, how cold has it been there? Have you had any success in teaching
lately? I listened to podcasts in the wee hours of this morning. One
of the speakers to a BYU devotional suggested you should pray yourself
through the day. Seems like good advice.
Just had Jeremy and family here. Kids played with Matt. I held the
baby – 3 months old, but about 1 month old size. Yeah I will have a
good break up here. Love you, be good, Mom
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I’m in Idaho! Hey kid, I’m officially unemployed now as well. I am
looking forward to some Reed’s Dairy tomorrow as well. In fact, I
think I’ll send Alex a picture just to show him how much I’m enjoying
it. Ty too. Looks like I’ll probably be fixing Grandma’s sprinklers
tomorrow. It’ll be good to get some handy man work in. I think I’ll go
visit Jeff on Tuesday or Wednesday. Haven’t seen him in a few years so
that will be cool.
Are you a good cook yet? With my time off I intend to do some
experimenting myself. In fact, Sam and Matt might come home to some
nice home cooked meals once in a while. Matt just cleaned his pool the
day we left. Of course, in response to this Nature decided to throw a
haboob and now it is probably nice and swampy. When Mom and I were
driving up the rain was coming down in massive drops that totally
drowned out the radio. Part of the time the wind blew it right into
the windshield and it looked like we were jumping into warpspeed.
It’s cool you get to stay in your area for now. I was only in 5 areas
my whole mission. That means I spent a significant amount of time in
certain areas. On an island it sometimes felt like I had already
talked to every person in my area multiple times, but we always still
had people to teach somehow. Write in your area book! It pays
dividends over time. Be awesome. Later - Matt
FROM NICK TO MOM & MATT:
Rainstorms are fun. I remember driving up to Flagstaff with Courtney and Alex and Cade in the truck, and the windshield wipers ripped off as it was raining. A little scary, but pretty fun. Sounds like you just have a great little time set up there, with pretty weather and all. Enjoy some good books, that's my advice. It's been a bit cold here. It is winter, after all. The lowest it gets is just a bit below freezing, but only late in the night. Still, the humidity makes it a good amount colder. Way colder. When I breathe out, the mist will go for a good 4 second count before it disappears. Pretty incredible. I sleep with three blankets, four if you count the airplane blanket I'm using as my pillowcase. I have the one I brought from home even, one of those cheap fleece ones. Regretfully, all the blankets are like that. When they're all together it's nice though. If you want a record of teaching, Dad will have to send you what I sent him. Glad you're enjoying yourself over there.
Matt - Reed's Dairy. Mmm. Just before emailing we ate pancakes. Pancakes here are more like crepes, a little thicker. Tortillas are kinda like pizza without sauce. My pancake had tomatoes, ham, cheese, and an egg. Costed a bit, but it was good. Like an omelet. I really don't have opportunities to cook here. We eat at members homes basically every day. In contrast to this, it appears I've lost weight since Tennessee. With my suit and stuff on there, I weighed around 215, perhaps 220. When I weighed myself earlier today I was at 207 pounds. Interesting. Glad you have the opportunity to do handyman things. I have such opportunities occasionally. Enjoyed your warpspeed rainstorm story. And wow, that isn't very many. I think I would like to stay in an area anywhere between three and six months, preferrably. More gets to be a bit much, and less is a bit hurried. And yeah, I can testify to the area book. We are doing fairly well with it. Need to get better at filling it each night though.
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