09/09/2012

From the Family to Nick:


cw,
wE'VE JUST BEEN PRETTY BORING.  mATT FINALLY STARTED HIS NEW JOB ON
fRIDAY.  iT TOOK LONGER THAN THEY EXPECTED TO GET HIS BACKGROUND
CHECK.  wE'VE BEEN TRYING TO PLANT OUR GARDEN BUT IT'S BEEN SO MUDDY
FROM ALL THE RAIN WE'VE BEEN GETTING.  mAYBE WE'LL VENTURE OUT THERE
TONIGHT OR TOMORROW IF IT DOESN'T RAIN AGAIN.  oUR NURSERY THOUGHT OF
THE DAY, I HAD ASKED WHAT WE NEED TO DO SO WE CAN GO LIVE WITH
hEAVENLY fATHER AGAIN.  tHE LITTLE BOY PROMPTLY ANSWERED , "HAVE A
STRIP PARTY".  I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT TO SAY BUT I
COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HE REALLY MET.  kEEP AT IT.
mATT AND sAM
DEAR NICK;
IT'S BEEN SUCH A  LONGTIME SINCE I WROTE YOU I'M NOT SURE I REMEMBER
HOW. I THINK YOUR MOM TOLD YOU ABOUT OUR QUICK TRIP TO IDAHO FOR MY
COUSINS FUNERAL, WE WENT IN CINDY'S NEW LITTLE RED CAR. NOW GRNDAD IS
COUNTING RED CARS AS WE DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD. I TOLD HIM HE COULD BUY
ME ONE FOR MY BIRTHDAY BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!  THEN
WE DID A 3 DAY TRIP TO SAN DIEGO TO SEE BILL AND JEANNE, THEN THE TRIP
UP TO CALDER'S WITH YOUR MOM TO AIRPINE. MOSTLY WE HAVE BEEN SITTING
IN THE HOUSE WITH THE AIR CONDITIONER GOING, BUT THIS WEEK WE HAVE HAD
A LOT OF RAIN AND THINGS HAVE COOLED DOWN. IT FEELS SO GOOD, GRANDAD
IS ASKING FOR SOUP TO WARM HIM UP.WE HAVE ONLY BEEN GOING TO SACRAMENT
MEETING, AND SOMETIMES NOT THAT SO I REALLY FEEL LIKE AND "INACTIVE",
BUT THIS MORNING I GOT CALLED AS  A VISITING TEACHER SUPERVISOR  SO I
CAN MAKE CALLS FROM HOME BUT STILL FEEL LIKE A PART OF THE WARD.
GRANDAD AND I WENT TO THE "RASMUSSEN" FUNERAL, JANETS DAD TALKED ABOUT
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT AND  LAYING UP YOUR TREASURE IN HEAVEN. I'M
SURE ANNIE MUST HAVE BEEN COMFORTED WITH SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SERVICE AND
KNOWING HER TREASURE WAS IN HEAVEN WAITING FOR HER. TO ME THAT WAS
EVEN BETTER THAN BUILDING MANSIONS.  CAN'T THINK OF ANY THING ELSE TO
SAY, LOVE YOU---GRANDMA
Nick,
I'm going to endure to the end. If you keep up your end of the deal
that means an eternity of calling me father. Do you have it in you?
Heeeelllllllooooooooooooo Nikcolas! You can probably guess which
brother it is already. I got my face chopped to pieces a couple days
ago. I don’t remember much of the experience except that I took your
advice and went straight to sleep. I remember walking to the car and
then kevin brought me a chocolate shake and a spoon. I then proceeded
to whomp on him in super smash bros. I gots work tommorrow an then Les
Miserables tickets for me and mom this thursday! Yea. Life should be
good. It is good. Anywho keep on keeping on.
-Zander
Morning Nicholas  - or is it afternoon there?  Whatever…
Things just seem to keep falling into place for me work-wise.  I had a
pow wow with my hospital boss.  She wants me to come back to nights -
apparently they have had a really tough time with short staff this
summer, but she said she will probably have a part-time dayshift job
by December sometime.  I'm so happy.  That will help so much this next
semester.
So, Matt wins the fun prize with the teeth, although Ty was probably
affected by it the most.  Alex did just fine.  I discovered one of my
teeth that was just starting an abcess  the day before I took Alex in.
 They were able to see me and order my antibiotics when I was there
with him.  Now I just get to look forward to the endodontist this
Thursday.  I hate root canals.  At least this is one that has already
been done before and shouldn't be that bad.
The bishop asked me to teach RS every third sunday now.  I'm happy!!!
They are looking for a person to go to the cannery every 1st tuesday
to replace me since I will be teaching then.  Next week I'm teaching -
it's title is keeping on the right side of the line.
Sent a blurb of email excerpts out to the Southern Estates Ward.  Even
though our ward now has your info in the bulletin that ward still
claims you too.  Hope you've had a great week with the temple being
re-dedicated and such.  Proud of you.  Love you,   Mom

From Nick to the Family:

Just thought I'd let you know how funny this email was.  I found it incredibly good.  Matt or Sam, whichever it was, put it in Caps lock, but never took it off.  This led to Grandma keeping it in Caps and typing still, haha.  Then Dad's comment was also quite funny.  And it took me a while to figure out what Alex meant when he said his face got chopped up.  I forgot about his wisdom teeth and thought he'd fallen from a palm tree during work or crashed a bike again and happened to use his face to land again.  Oh goodness.  What a letter.  So this week went by pretty swell.  The highlights would be the big events for the rededication of the Buenos Aires temple.  Argentina has a temple again!  All three of the Buenos Aires missions and the MTC met together on Friday and we had a special meeting with President Eyring, Elder Ballard and Elder Christofferson.  The three gave wonderful talks.  Elder Christofferson is the only one that speaks Spanish, which he did pretty well.  Elder Ballard talked about his grandfather, Melvin J. Ballard, who gave the dedicatory prayer to open all of South America to missionary work.  Actually, on our first day here our mission president took us to the site, more or less, the park where it was offered.  There were only three members in Buenos Aires when they arrived, and all three were immigrants from Germany, who spoke only German.  It's grown a bit since then.  President Eyring talked about recognizing the power of God, more or less.  Talked about how he got his patriarchal blessing.  Said that his parents drove from where they lived, in New Jersey or something like that, dropped him off in front of his great uncle's house, who was a patriarch, and left.  He had never even seen his great uncle before.  His great uncle just beckoned him in, sat him down and gave him his patriarchal blessing.  But he was able to recognize the power and influence of God in his blessing.  It was quite good.  Then Saturday there was a huge cultural event which went well.  A ton of youth performed the dances they had been practicing for various months, the missionaries stumbled out there and we sang Llamados a Servir.  Called to serve has four verses in Spanish, by the way.  Then Sunday the rededication was great.  Good talks.  It gets better as I think back on it, even.  This week'll be good, I can tell.

Matt and Sam - Good he'll be off to working again.  Thank you very much for the wonderful insight from church.  It was enlightening.  I'll continue trying to discern what the little boy actually wanted to say.

Grandma - Dear Grandma, you are wonderful.  I am glad to have a grandma like you.  I'm glad you were able to have a good time and enjoy yourselves.  Good that you were able to receive a calling to keep on working with the ward.  I know you can do good things.

Dad - Oh goodness.  I hadn't quite thought that far.  I think I can do it, though.  Yeah, I'm pretty sure it'll happen.

Alex - Good you were able to get that little bit of business out of the way.  It isn't too bad though.  Make sure you thoroughly enjoy Les Miserables.  It will be wonderful.  I enjoyed it when I went in eighth grade.  I would enjoy it even more now.

Mom - So who wins the least trouble prize with the wisdom teeth?  I need to win one prize at least.  Glad to see things seem to be working for your good.  Good to hear.  You should send me the email of Grandma O.  Or perhaps the regular mail address.  I could go snail mail variety.  That'd be better.  Thanks for keeping the people updated on me. 

Well, as I say every week, almost, time is up.  I still wanted to send photos, but I lack time, I believe.  You are great people.  Really, to read a letter from home each week just picks me up even more.  Makes me good.  Me hace bien.  So perhaps a better translation would be that it makes me well.  Either way.  Keep doing things well.

Love,
Elder Hansen