Dear darling missionaries,  I hope you had a great week. We had an incident last Monday. Our darling Emily got in a car accident. She is ok and the guy she hit is ok, but Carl (Sandy) is totaled. They thought it was going to be not a total, but they pulled things apart and found more damage. Em, is so sad. And has been not wanting to drive as much. She missed a stop sign that was partially covered by a tree, and t-boned another car. Damage was done to her right front corner of the car and the other car was damaged by the left front fender and the wheel was bent in at the top. It could have been so much worse. I am thankful it happened the way it did. So Emily got her license the Tuesday before and by Monday of the next week she had her first accident. People have been telling her that now she won’t have one, because she got it out of the way. Write something to her on this email. She is at work and won’t be able to write, because we are going up to Park City tonight.

Mi Familia!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!   and Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!!

Awww no! Sandy!! I’m glad Em is okay though. That’s really sad to hear. 🙁

We also had car troubles this week. But more on that later.

So last Monday…we accidentally did a bad thing. So it was p-day of course, and we needed to go to Wal-mart to shop. So Sister Q searched in her GPS for the closest Wal-mart, and we went to it. And then guess who I see there?! Hermana J, who was in my zone at the MTC. And guess what? She is serving in the DALLAS MISSION!! Yeah, that’s right! We not only accidentally left our area, we accidentally left our mission!! It was crazy. I felt to so so guilty, but we have since repented and it’s all good now. 🙂

Awww Tashie!! She is so stinkin adorable. I love those pictures you sent of her, because they are so Natasha. The one with her not even looking at the camera, and the other one of her running like a tard. Oh man! I want to hug her little squishiness! I’m glad you are taking her to church though. We have so many people who are having trouble with being active in the church, and I know how hard it is to see that, and to deal with it. It can be really frustrating. Just continue to do all you can. It will make a difference in the future for her. 🙂

Man, I am so looking forward to watching the new Harry Potter movie. Although I’m kind of sad that it is officially over now. 🙁 It’s been such a big part of my life for so long. Ha ha. Just kidding. But yeah, we should definitely do that.

Mom, good job for walking! I’m so proud of you. Just keep it up. 🙂

Okay, so about our car troubles. So the other day we got in the car, and the check tire pressure alert was on. So we checked the tires. The drivers side back tire was low. So we filled it up. The next morning it was low again. So we decided to talk to the guy in charge of the cars for the mission to see what we could do about it. He told us we could go to Pep Boys. Apparently, the church has some sort of contract with Pep Boys so they are supposed to do all of our car work. So we go there, and we tell them we need our tire checked. It takes them an hour to check the tire, then another hour to tell us that they need to replace it. When they told us the total for the tire, we also asked them if they could change our wipe blades because they were falling apart. So it takes them another hour to finish changing the tire, and switch the wiper blades. Then the guy that was doing the work comes to bring us our car. As he is backing out of the stall thing, he backs our car into another customers car!! Yeah. Sister Q saw him do it, and called him out on it, because he was going to drive away and act like nothing happened. So then we had to wait another hour to figure out the paperwork, and get all their insurance information. Amount of time spent at the Pep Boys: 4 hours. 4 hours that we can never get back, and that we could have spend sharing the gospel with people who really need it. It was so frustrating. Grrr! That was on Saturday. And then yesterday, we were driving home in the night, and I went to clean off the windshield, because we got some random gunk on it. And guess what happened? I bet you’ll never guess. The windshield wiper that just got replaced flies off into the night, never to be seen again. I think it’s pretty obvious we are never going back to that Pep Boys again.

Dad, I’m glad you are doing fun things. And enjoying life.

Keep doing what you are doing. 🙂

That would really not be cool. Is he going to be okay?

Emerny! Sorry about your bad experience with the car. I’m sad that Sandy is gone now, but she had a good run. 🙂 I’m also glad that you are okay. Don’t let this make you afraid of driving though. We live and learn, right? Now you’ll just be a more cautious driver. At least for a little while. 🙂

Anyways, bye family. I have to go now. Love you all lots. Keep doing god things! 🙂

Love, Kelsey