These amazingly nifty fishes were in a park in Park City, Utah. Like I’ve said before, some people are so creative!!
Check out the things that went into making them. The right fin on this one looks like a side mirror from a truck.
This one is so cute!!! The mouth is a tool chest. The right fin looks like a hub cap. Amazing!
The eye on this one looks like and old head light from a old car. I love them!!
Hermana Kelsey 8:4 -email-
Dear family,
This week was pretty average. It went by really slow for me. Sometimes
it feels like days go really fast, but the week goes slow, and other
days I feel like the week goes slow and the days go fast. It’s weird.
Anyway, not much happened this week. One of the elders in our district
got a greenie on Wednesday, so now I’m not the youngest missionary in
our zone anymore. The new missionary’s name is Elder J. He is
pretty cool. He was super quiet his first couple days. It reminded me
of when I was a greenie. I was scared to death, and wondered a lot
about what I had gotten myself into.
It has been raining some this week. On Wednesday, the lightning woke
me up at 4:30 in the morning because it was so loud. It was pretty
cool. I think I am going to miss thunderstorms when I get back to
Utah. We don’t have thunderstorms in Utah like they do here.
Mom: I get what you are saying about hearing a talk and thinking about
how someone needs to hear it. There are a lot of times when I am
sitting in church, and one of our investigators isn’t there, and I
hear something that was like specifically for that person. And I
think, “Man I wish so and so was here so they could hear this. They
really need it.” But it is true, because most of the time we can get a
lot more out of it for ourselves than other people.
Wow, Crystal is engaged?!? Whoa. Man, everyone is going to get married
by the time I come home. That’ll be weird.
Anyway, yesterday, we had some changes in our bishopric. We thought
for sure our bishop was going to get released because he has been the
bishop for almost 8 years. But they just replaced his two counselors.
The new guys will be really good though. One of them is a white guy
who is a cop, and the other one is a returned missionary, which is
pretty rare in spanish wards because most of the members are converts
after the age to go on a mission. Anyway, I better go. I love you.
Bye.
Dad: I’m sorry you haven’t been able to get very much exercise. Me
either. Half an hour in the morning isn’t very long to get any kind of
work out in. But we try…sometimes. 🙂 Man, I miss navajo tacos. We
have a lot of really good Mexican food, but I miss some kinds of food
we don’t get to eat very much, or at all. How is your other job going?
I hope things are good there. I think that’s all. Love you.
Emmysaurus Rex: That is way cool. I miss young women a little bit.
Sometimes we go in and hang out with the young women, and get
referrals and stuff from them. It’s pretty fun. The young women here
are really close, because there are only a few, so they are all
friends with each other. Mom told me about your car, and how you
painted the hood with chalkboard paint. You are a crazy girl!!! I
laughed pretty hard when I read that. Oh so are you going to go to the
Halloween dance? I heard you were having trouble getting a date for
it. That’s too bad. But it’ll be good.
Anyway, I gotta go now. Bye y’all. I love you all so much.
Love, Kelsey
Elder Flexy 16:2 -email-
Mama,
ya this week was great we worked hard we met some cool new babas potential priesthood holders and the work is going well. this area is probably the toughest area i’ve been in. i’m turning into a tracting machine i have a plan to tract every house in E. but this week the N.’s (the senior couple for our area) son came to visit and he spoke in church. he spoke about faith, preparedness and priesthood. it was a great talk i enjoyed it. and it was cute to see some mlungu(White) kids they were funny little kids. but the week has been good. love you
Love Elder Flexy
Baba,
wow Navajo taco sounds so good i miss all that food so much but oh well i’ll get it someday. but sounds like all is good except your shoulder sorry about that well time is short love you
Love Elder Flexy
M,
Yep my sister slow and steady does win the race take your time. and i’m sure everything will work in your favor. love you
Love Elder Flexy
“Think of all the beauty that’s still in and around you and be happy.”-Ann Frank
Beautiful Sunday drive!
Hope your Sunday was the best! Love, Joy
Natasha recently started pre-school. I was thrilled to find out that she has been taught “The Pledge of Allegiance.” I love this country so much. I do “Pledge my Allegiance” and am so grateful to the men and women throughout history who paid the ultimate price for our freedom, and for those in the past and present who continue to fight for us and protect us, and our freedoms.
I am so happy my granddaughter goes to a school that still says the “Pledge of Allegiance”!
So here is another post about color coding your Family History. Continued from the post found here. This is my pedigree chart. As you can see, my grandparents are Blue, Green, Red and Yellow. Now on the bottom line, my maternal grandmother’s line is Yellow, but when you get to the great grandparent’s on that line, the Yellow continues back on the White family line, while the Dye family line is now Orange. The reason why the Dye (maternal) line is Orange is, because I have a ton of information on these two families. On all of the other lines, I only have enough to fill up one book, for each grandparent’s family. Someday, when I have a ton of information on all my families, I will add another color to the maternal side of all of my great grandparent’s.
Now some people say, “Why color code your family lines?” Here are the reason’s I do it:
1-I am a very visual person.
2-While organizing my papers, I just put a dot in the color (I use permanent markers) of the family they go with in the upper right corner of the paper and then I know, at a glance what family that information goes with. Also when researching, I make a copy of the source, (e.g. census, maps, birth certificate, etc.) and simply put the dot in the upper right corner, and now I know which family to file that copy with when I get home.
3-When you get back a ways in your pedigree, there are going to be more and more sir names. How will you know which family they are connected to and how they are connected to you? You would know, if they had a color assigned to them. Or, you can just memorize all of them.
4-What if your family lines connect, like cousins married etc. or have the same name? Once my mom met a woman whose maiden name was Green, she married a man named Green. How hard would it be to keep those records straight? Ouch! This woman was thrilled to learn how to color code her family history, and said that neither one of the Green lines would be assigned the color Green. They would be Red and Blue! I love that!
So take a little time on Sunday or whenever, go through all of the papers you have inherited and start to organize. Pick a color for each of your grandparents and go from there.
Happy Family History Friday! Love, Joy
Emily and her friend Lexie chalking Murphy the car!
Emily’s car hood is painted with chalkboard paint, so every couple of days she’s out there drawing on the hood.
What a cute, cute, girl!
Isn’t she darling!?!
Changing the radio station! Very graceful!
Tahdah!!
Can you believe how creative some people are? The horse’s feet are pistons. I bet most people would consider all those parts junk. I am amazed at what can be created, with a little creativity. Love it!
Hermana Kelsey 8:3 -email-
Dear awesome family,
This week was REALLY long. It is now almost the end of another transfer. We got our transfer calls this morning. I am staying in A. with Sister Q. I am not sure how I feel about it. I am happy that I am not training, or getting someone less experienced than me, but this transfer is going to be a little rough. This is Sister Q’s last transfer, and it is really hard to be around someone who is going home, because you know they are going home, and you don’t get to. But hopefully I won’t get too trunky. She told me she is going to help me not get trunky. So that is good. I’m also glad I am staying in A. because we now have a lot of really great things happening. The elders in our district baptized 7 people this transfer! We only baptized 2, but that is still really good for our district. So things are going pretty well here. We also found some really promising people this week. 🙂
We’ve had a lot of rain the last few days. On Saturday, we got back to our house at the end of the day, and we went upstairs, and they was water all over my bed! We left the window open, because the people we live with are trying to save money, so they turned off their AC, and it is HOT in our room. So that was fun. Then yesterday it rained really hard for most of the day. Whenever it is a rainy day, Sister Q says, “It looks like a Harry Potter day”. Ha ha. It’s because before the mission, when it rained she would watch Harry Potter. But now that we can’t, when it rains, we just listen to movie soundtracks. But I love the rain here in Texas. When it rains, it really rains!
Mom: That is so cool you fed the missionaries! Were any of them spanish? Did they sing “Because I Have Been Given Much”? We always sing that to the people that feed us at zone conferences. Except we change the words to “every sister that I meet”, because it’s always the women that feed us. But anyway, that is way awesome.
Anyway, I miss my Tashers. I see that picture of her running special, and I just want to squish her so much. It’s funny that she reminds you of Stuart. Sometimes when we are tracting Sister Q. will ask me to the Stuart dance thing, when he says, “Look what I can do!” She thinks it is hilarious. 🙂 Sometimes I do it, and sometimes I don’t. One time she almost got it on video, but I realized what she was doing and I wouldn’t do it. 🙂
So, I wrote Caitlin a letter while I was in the MTC (like a really good one too), and she never wrote back to me. I’m not really sure what that means. Either she forgot to write back, or she doesn’t want to. I will definitely write her again though. And I will try to write a letter today to that girl that Riley is dating.
Dad: Yay!!! I’m so glad you passed your test. I prayed really hard for you throughout this week. Do you do like door to door sales? Or how does that work? If you are doing door to door that is kind of what we do. Except the thing we are giving is free…and sometimes people still don’t want it. 🙁 But anyway, that is great. I’m glad things are going well for you.
P.S. Ha ha ha! I really liked your Tim Conway steps. 🙂
Riley: I’m glad to hear you are doing good. I thought that you had fallen off of the face of the earth, but I guess everything is okay. 🙂 How is work? Are you going to school? Are you still doing drill for the army? Anyway, write me a letter or something sometime. 🙂
Emmysaurus: It’s crazy how fast time flies, huh? I don’t feel like I have been a missionary as long as I have, but I’ve been out on the mission for almost 8 months now!!! It is so crazy!! I still have a little while left, but my time is running out. :% Anyway, I guess it is just like everything in life, we jsut have to enjoy it while we are in it. 🙂 Anyway, you should also write me a real letter, because I wrote you one the other day. 🙂 🙂 Okay, well I gotta go now.
I love all of you!!
Love, Kelsey
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
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