Kimberly wrote: Do you know the plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year? Times mostly.
Kirsten wrote: Well, according to my calendar, Thanksgiving Day starts, technically at midnight on Thursday, Nov. 25 this year running until 11:59 p.m. that same day. Christmas starts at midnight the day your 65th birthday comes to a close and runs the whole day. New Year's... well, now that will depend on if you want GWT time, EST, CST, or MST? :)
hehehehe
So helpful ALWAYS!
Kimberly wrote: Funny, Shawn would be so proud. You guys coming to Utah this year?
Myrna wrote: Yes, in answer to your question, we will celebrate Thanksgiving at our house. We will also celebrate (?) my birthday and Christmas Eve at our home. (I will be 70!) As to the times, suggest something. Dad says that whatever time he sets it will bother someone and someone else will be late. He thinks should you figure it out and let us know. We will be here all day each of those days.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Thanks for getting reservations- follow up on Eva.
H D TRAUNTVEIN (prute@q.com)Add to contacts 10/26/10
To: leonard trauntvein
Dearest Hon and Myrna: thank you for the reservations for the 22nd November. Am really looking forward to this special opportunity.
To let you know - Eva received the results of her pulmonary tests, done a week ago, this past Wednesday or Thursday. Spent much of the day with her on Friday, cleaning and just sharing thoughts and feelings. The results of the test are: she has diminishing lung capacity disease. This results in difficulty in breathing and having the lungs expand. Cause is unknown and the only treatment, at present is the use of a hand held nebulizer with medication in to deep breath into the lungs, and also to just deep breath as much as possible. This really diminishes her energy level. Several months ago after having sleep apnea testing at Intermountain Medical Center, and being diagnosed with the same, the doctor ordered to have equipment in the home for oxygen- she didn't use is very much and so after a period of time had it taken out. She is going to contact the doctor and see about getting it again-
Thanks again for the reservation- Have a good week and be safe, especially in driving- Love you much. Just Me.
Monday, October 25, 2010
District Puerto!
So this week the first District, District Puerto Cabezas, was formed here in Nicaragua! All of the organizations have been put into place and I have felt a bit of weight lifted off of my shoulders.
Our Mission President came to speak with us, do interviews and organize the district. it was fantastic being trained and guided by our mission president as to how to become better missionaries and be lead to change. I love my mission. I know that may just sound wierd, but it is the truth. These experiences are amazing. And now 5 months of my mission have just passed me by! Wow.
While I was speaking with the President I told him how diffifcult it is to serve in a place where the church is not very well established, but that I love it here and that I love the people so much. He and I spoke for a little bit about the people and the culture. It was a good, short interview.
My comp and I are doing very well. Elder Johnson and I have been working very hard on visiting less-active recent converts. It is a lot of work to do, especially with the normal work that we have to do every day. Sometimes it seems like SO MUCH WORK, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Sure this may be a lot for a few missionaries to handle, I know that the Lord wouldn't have put us here if He knew that we couldn't handle it.
Thanks for the update on how all of you are. On my P-Days I love getting updates on the Fam, how you all are and how the world is (the relatively normal world).
I got the update from the church newsroom about the Groundbreaking and I almost cired. I just thought about how happy I would be if they announced a temple for Nicaragua (based on how much I love these people) and I thought about how much Dad loves Italy. So yeah. There were almost tears. :)
On Saturday night I was talkiong to a bishop from Managua, who had come to work on the Chapel here in Puerto. He and I were discussing the culture of the Gospel and the conflict with the culture here in this city. It was a nice chat that helped me understand that these people will change, little by little and adapt to the culture of the Gospel. He also gave me some great ideas to motivate the people to action here. ;)
Mom-The package can have ties, chocolate, socks, pens, etc. Those are great ideas!
Dad-I'll contact the chambón (lazy boy).
I love you all so much...and this week I'll be on top of things and actually remember my agenda...
Love, Elder Braden D. Bolton
Our Mission President came to speak with us, do interviews and organize the district. it was fantastic being trained and guided by our mission president as to how to become better missionaries and be lead to change. I love my mission. I know that may just sound wierd, but it is the truth. These experiences are amazing. And now 5 months of my mission have just passed me by! Wow.
While I was speaking with the President I told him how diffifcult it is to serve in a place where the church is not very well established, but that I love it here and that I love the people so much. He and I spoke for a little bit about the people and the culture. It was a good, short interview.
My comp and I are doing very well. Elder Johnson and I have been working very hard on visiting less-active recent converts. It is a lot of work to do, especially with the normal work that we have to do every day. Sometimes it seems like SO MUCH WORK, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Sure this may be a lot for a few missionaries to handle, I know that the Lord wouldn't have put us here if He knew that we couldn't handle it.
Thanks for the update on how all of you are. On my P-Days I love getting updates on the Fam, how you all are and how the world is (the relatively normal world).
I got the update from the church newsroom about the Groundbreaking and I almost cired. I just thought about how happy I would be if they announced a temple for Nicaragua (based on how much I love these people) and I thought about how much Dad loves Italy. So yeah. There were almost tears. :)
On Saturday night I was talkiong to a bishop from Managua, who had come to work on the Chapel here in Puerto. He and I were discussing the culture of the Gospel and the conflict with the culture here in this city. It was a nice chat that helped me understand that these people will change, little by little and adapt to the culture of the Gospel. He also gave me some great ideas to motivate the people to action here. ;)
Mom-The package can have ties, chocolate, socks, pens, etc. Those are great ideas!
Dad-I'll contact the chambón (lazy boy).
I love you all so much...and this week I'll be on top of things and actually remember my agenda...
Love, Elder Braden D. Bolton
More from Toni
Hi friends and family,
I know this summer I have not been very good about keeping in touch with everyone or sending updates about me. I've just been really busy with all the usual 'warmer-weather-at-last' chores and plenty of fun activities too. Like me winning 6 bottles of wine in the Lucy look-alike contest at the grape stomp. My only complaint is not enough family time. But the time we shared was great .... scenic and fun. Some of the other stuff we've been busy with is below.
Most of you know I was the 'guest of honor & featured speaker' at the Bosom Ball a couple of weeks ago. Last Weds. I spoke again at the tennis center for the Rally For The Cure. Then this Saturday was the big fashion show & tea party for breast cancer survivors & they have a hat contest. I wore the huge pink hat I made 8 years ago for a costume & I've added lots of breast cancer related pics, cartoons, sayings, logos, etc to the veil. I'll try to send a pic or check my facebook pages later.
If you had been there you could have watched me win lots of stuff! My hat won First Prize, (an overnight stay at the casino/hotel) and there were LOTS of fancy hats there this year, plus I won the centerpiece because my program had the special mark on it, plus won a door prize of an angel/cherub about a foot tall, plus won a manicure but I gave that one away. It was fun. Craig & another guy came down & joined us for drinks & a little gambling after the tea. We walked over to the new hotel lobby and spa to get a price list since I won ANOTHER overnight stay plus $100 spa treatment 2 weeks ago at the chamber party. I need to buy some lottery tickets!
Yesterday we went to a 'cowboy golf' game at a local ranch. It was a charity fund raiser also. I used to think Craig was the only cowboy-stockbroker around here but THIS guy & his family live like cowboys! It was very blustery, cold, rainy, windy so I stayed in their house & watched TV while they all trudged around through the pasture & cow pies hitting muddy golf balls!
As for my health, I'm about the same. Had another nuclear bone scan last week, didn't hear the results yet but my CEA # is still going UP, which is the wrong direction.... 6 mo in a row now. :-(
I'm going to the Slocum Center in Eugene tomorrow to get my feet checked (finally) cause I just about can't wear any kind of shoes and that sucks! The bone scan tech said that they took an extra 'view' of my feet because "something is going on there". ... & they hurt all the time.
We're still planning to go to the Tacoma area for Thanksgiving with Rick & Kim & all. I thought at first that maybe both Leslie & Don would be there as well with spouse + but guess that's not going to happen. Maybe next time.
But first...We're going to Maui Nov. 12 to Nov 20 and staying with our friends, the Rinaldi's. I'll send you kids more info on that later.... flight info, etc. You know I'm scared already (a total of 5 friggin' flights!), but I'm sure we'll be fine... I'm just going to pretend that we are Angelina & Brad & that we fly all over the world constantly! LOL
Guess that's enough for now. Hope you are all well and happy!
Keep in touch.... miss you, lots of love & hugs, Mom/ Toni
Long Letter
Toni, congratulations on all your many honors. I always thought you were pretty enough to be a movie star and now you are one.
Don't be afraid of flying! Just go and have a good time. Life is too short to worry about things like falling out of the air.
Whenever a plane flies, it is suspended in air which is too thick — far too dense — for the plane to fall through it. Even though you cannot see air, and thus cannot see how thick it is becoming, you do know you can’t pedal a bike much faster than twenty miles-per-hour; and yet, at five miles-per-hour, you walk across a room without being slowed by air at all.it is possible to go faster than the speed of sound, but as you come close to that speed, air becomes nearly as solid as a brick. And, even at the speed a plane accelerates to on the runway before taking off, air becomes as solid as jello.
Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the rocket-powered X-1 airplane. However, until that day, scientists were not sure it was possible. The plane had previously gone right up to the threshold of the speed of sound and stopped accelerating. It was as if it had hit a wall. Thus, the term, the “sonic barrier”. As it turned out, it is possible to go faster than the speed of sound, but as you come close to that speed, air becomes nearly as solid as a brick. And, even at the speed a plane accelerates to on the runway before taking off, air becomes as solid as jello.
Whenever a plane flies, it is suspended in air which is too thick — far too dense — for the plane to fall through it. Even though you cannot see air, and thus cannot see how thick it is becoming, you do know you can’t pedal a bike much faster than twenty miles-per-hour; and yet, at five miles-per-hour, you walk across a room without being slowed by air at all.
Thus, considering what a dramatic difference, effortlessly moving across a floor at five miles-per-hour and unable to pedal faster than twenty miles-per-hour because of the air holding you back, it is easy to imagine how much “thicker” air is at forty miles-per-hour (as thick as water) or eighty miles-per-hour (as thick as oil), or one-hundred-twenty miles-per-hour (as thick as molasses). Just a bit faster, and air becomes, as far as the plane is concerned, a mass of jello which sits on the earth and rises on up above the earth twelve miles to the edge of space.
The airplane, once it reaches “jello-speed” stays suspended in this huge mass of jello that covers the earth as a twelve-mile thick blanket. Or, if you prefer, think of the earth as a huge jelly donut, with the jelly on the outside. That is what we fly it. But it is a misconception to even say fly. Really we don’t. We simply sit suspended in jello as engines push us forward in it.
magine you have a plate of jello in front of you. There is a cube of pineapple suspended in the jello. You pick up the plate and shake the jello. You shake it hard, trying to dislodge it, and make it fall. It is impossible. You cannot do it. You can only make the pineapple shake in the same direction as you shake the jello which is holding the pineapple.
Replace the pineapple with a toy model airplane, an inch or two long. Again, try to shake the jello enough to cause the model airplane to come loose and plunge through the jello. Impossible.
The jello is so thick that the plane can ONLY move forward, and it can ONLY move forward because of tremendous power from the engines shoving the plane forward hard enough to CUT the jello so it can move at all.
While the plane is on the runway, it speeds up until – as far as the plane is concerned – the air is as thick as jello. THEN, once in air as thick as jello, the plane can ONLY go where it is pointed, pushed by the tremendous force of the engines. So, the nose is raised a bit above the horizon, and so the plane goes exactly where it is pointed. The nose continues slightly up until reaching the desired cruise altitude, and is then pointed at the horizon so the plane neither climbs nor descends. Then, when time to descend, the nose is pointed slightly down, and because it is going downhill, the engines are not needed for it to cut forward through the jello.
The plane can only go where it is pointed. Turbulence can only make the jello jiggle, and thus the plane jiggle. It cannot make the plane come loose from the jello-like air. It cannot make the plane fall. In fact, use your imagination and you will find you can’t imagine the plane — in jello — going any direction except where it is pointed.
An accident can only happen under two possibilities: 1. The plane is pointed wrong, such as at a mountain, or at some point when near the ground other than the runway (there are warnings, now, to prevent both; 2. The plane goes too slow and the air is no longer like jello (that never happens with an airliner because the pilots are professional and there are warnings if the plane starts to go too slow).
If difficulty persists with concern the plane could fall, you will need to actually buy some jello mix and a little plane, and some skewers to simulate the engines pushing the plane forward (place the skewers against the rear of the engines and push).
Don't be afraid of flying! Just go and have a good time. Life is too short to worry about things like falling out of the air.
Whenever a plane flies, it is suspended in air which is too thick — far too dense — for the plane to fall through it. Even though you cannot see air, and thus cannot see how thick it is becoming, you do know you can’t pedal a bike much faster than twenty miles-per-hour; and yet, at five miles-per-hour, you walk across a room without being slowed by air at all.it is possible to go faster than the speed of sound, but as you come close to that speed, air becomes nearly as solid as a brick. And, even at the speed a plane accelerates to on the runway before taking off, air becomes as solid as jello.
Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the rocket-powered X-1 airplane. However, until that day, scientists were not sure it was possible. The plane had previously gone right up to the threshold of the speed of sound and stopped accelerating. It was as if it had hit a wall. Thus, the term, the “sonic barrier”. As it turned out, it is possible to go faster than the speed of sound, but as you come close to that speed, air becomes nearly as solid as a brick. And, even at the speed a plane accelerates to on the runway before taking off, air becomes as solid as jello.
Whenever a plane flies, it is suspended in air which is too thick — far too dense — for the plane to fall through it. Even though you cannot see air, and thus cannot see how thick it is becoming, you do know you can’t pedal a bike much faster than twenty miles-per-hour; and yet, at five miles-per-hour, you walk across a room without being slowed by air at all.
Thus, considering what a dramatic difference, effortlessly moving across a floor at five miles-per-hour and unable to pedal faster than twenty miles-per-hour because of the air holding you back, it is easy to imagine how much “thicker” air is at forty miles-per-hour (as thick as water) or eighty miles-per-hour (as thick as oil), or one-hundred-twenty miles-per-hour (as thick as molasses). Just a bit faster, and air becomes, as far as the plane is concerned, a mass of jello which sits on the earth and rises on up above the earth twelve miles to the edge of space.
The airplane, once it reaches “jello-speed” stays suspended in this huge mass of jello that covers the earth as a twelve-mile thick blanket. Or, if you prefer, think of the earth as a huge jelly donut, with the jelly on the outside. That is what we fly it. But it is a misconception to even say fly. Really we don’t. We simply sit suspended in jello as engines push us forward in it.
magine you have a plate of jello in front of you. There is a cube of pineapple suspended in the jello. You pick up the plate and shake the jello. You shake it hard, trying to dislodge it, and make it fall. It is impossible. You cannot do it. You can only make the pineapple shake in the same direction as you shake the jello which is holding the pineapple.
Replace the pineapple with a toy model airplane, an inch or two long. Again, try to shake the jello enough to cause the model airplane to come loose and plunge through the jello. Impossible.
The jello is so thick that the plane can ONLY move forward, and it can ONLY move forward because of tremendous power from the engines shoving the plane forward hard enough to CUT the jello so it can move at all.
While the plane is on the runway, it speeds up until – as far as the plane is concerned – the air is as thick as jello. THEN, once in air as thick as jello, the plane can ONLY go where it is pointed, pushed by the tremendous force of the engines. So, the nose is raised a bit above the horizon, and so the plane goes exactly where it is pointed. The nose continues slightly up until reaching the desired cruise altitude, and is then pointed at the horizon so the plane neither climbs nor descends. Then, when time to descend, the nose is pointed slightly down, and because it is going downhill, the engines are not needed for it to cut forward through the jello.
The plane can only go where it is pointed. Turbulence can only make the jello jiggle, and thus the plane jiggle. It cannot make the plane come loose from the jello-like air. It cannot make the plane fall. In fact, use your imagination and you will find you can’t imagine the plane — in jello — going any direction except where it is pointed.
An accident can only happen under two possibilities: 1. The plane is pointed wrong, such as at a mountain, or at some point when near the ground other than the runway (there are warnings, now, to prevent both; 2. The plane goes too slow and the air is no longer like jello (that never happens with an airliner because the pilots are professional and there are warnings if the plane starts to go too slow).
If difficulty persists with concern the plane could fall, you will need to actually buy some jello mix and a little plane, and some skewers to simulate the engines pushing the plane forward (place the skewers against the rear of the engines and push).
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
A Great Reason to Nap
Beth Durfey 10/19/10
To: L H TRAUNTVEIN
My father used to take 10/15 min. naps 2 to 3 times a day. I was worried about this and wondered if something was wrong with him so I asked my Dr. what could be making my dad so such a thing. He told me it was good for my dad and that he would probably out live us all because of this habit he had. I guess I should have asked dad instead of the Dr. but I was embarrassed to ask him. Anyway I got my answer, it was good to have these power naps. They sure did help him. He learned this at work apparently and also in NZ when he was temple Pres. and could not leave the temple as dad was the only sealer at the temple for 2 yrs. He left once and came back to find a couple came in an were waiting for him, He never left the temple again, he was so embarrassed to have someone wait for him. He had to go to the dentist that day. Never again. How easy out temple Presidents have it in the US and maybe now days, when they make sure that there are sealers available. At least I hope they do in all these little temples around the world. Dad & Mom had a long hard 5 yrs. but one that was very close to the Lord. Then they came home and spent another 4 yrs. in the Alberta temple as Pres. & Matron. That was a good 9 yrs. in the Celestial Kingdom, is how my Mom put it. The day they were released the pain hit my Mom, she said the jolt of being in the Celestial Kingdom and then hitting the Telestial again were very hard for her.
Talk again.
Greetings
Pitts, Alan R 10/19/10
We enjoyed (4) count 'em four days in SLC at conference time attending 2nd session on Saturday.
Nice visit with Mother and Joan.
Returned home with Konnie having been gone for 12 weeks.
She then told her RS class that she had to pull weeds when she got home using that activity to relate to sin (weeds) and repentance (pulling weeds). She indicated that there were a lot of weeds to pull after she had been gone for (12) count'em twelve weeks.
I told her it was 25% of the year at that single time I did not include the twice before of (3) weeks each time.
HeatherJo now has (3) boys, Noah age 4, Micah age 2 and Jonah new on July 16th.
I do hope your are well and happy.
Love
Your cousin alan
Al Pitts
Manufacturing Engineering
Ph. (206) 544-3098
alan.r.pitts@boeing.com
M/S 4F-14
From Al Pitts
Al wrote: We enjoyed (4) count'em four days in SLC at conference time attending 2nd session on Saturday. Nice visit with Mother and Joan.
Returned home with Konnie having been gone for 12 weeks.
She then told her RS class that she had to pull weeds when she got home using that activity to relate to sin (weeds) and repentance (pulling weeds). She indicated that there were a lot of weeds to pull after she had been gone for (12) count'em twelve weeks.
I told her it was 25% of the year at that single time I did not include the twice before of (3) weeks each time.
Myrna wrote: Wow! That is a LONG time to be away--12 weeks--and it is a good thing that it was Konnie doing the work and not me. I usually just give my girls four weeks when they have new ones. Of course, now that I am older, I could do better. When the oldest of the children were having new babies I still had teens at home. They are almost more difficult to leave than younger kids are.
Returned home with Konnie having been gone for 12 weeks.
She then told her RS class that she had to pull weeds when she got home using that activity to relate to sin (weeds) and repentance (pulling weeds). She indicated that there were a lot of weeds to pull after she had been gone for (12) count'em twelve weeks.
I told her it was 25% of the year at that single time I did not include the twice before of (3) weeks each time.
HeatherJo now has (3) boys, Noah age 4, Micah age 2 and Jonah new on July 16th.
I do hope your are well and happy.
Love
Your cousin alan
Al Pitts
Manufacturing Engineering
I do hope your are well and happy.
Love
Your cousin alan
Al Pitts
Manufacturing Engineering
Julie is expecting in April. She has to have hers C-section. She does need more help than most but she lives in the county between Fairview and Mt. Pleasant.
We just got back from a one-week trip to Disney World as the guests of our youngest daughter, Kirsten, and her family. It was lots of fund. We left that warm weather to come back to snow. Snow is beautiful in the mountains but is not so great on a day to day basis--shoveling, clearing windshields, driving on slick roads.
Conference was wonderful! Every time someone would speak, I would think that was the best talk and then someone else would speak.
Your Mom is a trooper!
Monday, October 18, 2010
La Vida es un Ratico
So I was thinking of what it is that I needed to write to you this week and I had a list and everything! However, I conveniently left it in the house when I left to play around for P-Day. Regardless, I want to tell you about some significant experiences that I had this week, especially this weekend.
This week was going to be another interesting week in the life of Elder Bolton. Fighting for souls on the battlefield that is Puerto Cabezas (or Bilwi in Miskitu) and hoping that some of the recent converts in the area would come to church. My comp and I were going around teaching people this week, committing them to living the commandments of our Father in Heaven, and I had some amazing experiences. I was talking to one of my investigators and we were discussing the Sabbath Day, the Sacrament and worthiness. She then asked me if she was worthy of taking the sacrament because she hasn't been baptized and she isn't keeping all of the commandments that we are telling her that she has to keep. I explained to her why she should not be taking the sacrament when she visits the church (if you have questions about that doctrine i'll email you the scripture references). It was so wonderful because I was so wanting to be able to apply to my teaching that which we are learning in our district and zone meetings.
Another amazing experience that I had this week was on Saturday afternoon. My Branch President and I were walking around looking at the size of our area and talking about where our boundaries need to be and some of the people that we needed to go out and visit. Then he got a call from someone from the Mission Presidency and we received a little notification that instantly made me think about one of my investigators. We quickly walked over to his house to explain to him and his wife why it is that they needed to get married and baptized that evening. So I scrambled to get everything thrown together, and thanks to the help of some fellow missionaries we had an amazing last-minute wedding with a baptism on the moon-lit beach. Then they were confirmed on Sunday and thrown into the fray of our branch.
Which brings me to my third story. I was super serious like almost all sunday. My members need to go through a little bit of a refiner's fire, and hopefully I can help lead them in to that furnace! I told the priesthood holders what and how they should change so that the branch might be a successful and powerful ward someday. I was very frank and very direct with the people, but at the same time I was trying to show them the love I have for them and why I want them to be better. Then we had a ward committee meetting and we discussed the bus problem that we have in our area. That was crazy but really helped me realized how much patience that the Lord has blessed me with sometimes. I was so frustrated with how the people were reacting to what I was trying to say to them. Eventually my work will pay off here and the people will understand what it is that I am trying to teach them.
I have had some good chats with my son this week too! And I've taken some more photos with him (mom they're on the PhotoBucket). He and I are growing together so much. I love my zone right now. We are working so hard and trying to be such great missionaries and love the people so much. I just want you all to know how much I love these people here. They are unique and have such wonderful spirits about them.
I love you all so much too! Never think that I don't love you or miss you all. We will have our glorious reunion soon enough!
Love, Elder Braden D. Bolton
This week was going to be another interesting week in the life of Elder Bolton. Fighting for souls on the battlefield that is Puerto Cabezas (or Bilwi in Miskitu) and hoping that some of the recent converts in the area would come to church. My comp and I were going around teaching people this week, committing them to living the commandments of our Father in Heaven, and I had some amazing experiences. I was talking to one of my investigators and we were discussing the Sabbath Day, the Sacrament and worthiness. She then asked me if she was worthy of taking the sacrament because she hasn't been baptized and she isn't keeping all of the commandments that we are telling her that she has to keep. I explained to her why she should not be taking the sacrament when she visits the church (if you have questions about that doctrine i'll email you the scripture references). It was so wonderful because I was so wanting to be able to apply to my teaching that which we are learning in our district and zone meetings.
Another amazing experience that I had this week was on Saturday afternoon. My Branch President and I were walking around looking at the size of our area and talking about where our boundaries need to be and some of the people that we needed to go out and visit. Then he got a call from someone from the Mission Presidency and we received a little notification that instantly made me think about one of my investigators. We quickly walked over to his house to explain to him and his wife why it is that they needed to get married and baptized that evening. So I scrambled to get everything thrown together, and thanks to the help of some fellow missionaries we had an amazing last-minute wedding with a baptism on the moon-lit beach. Then they were confirmed on Sunday and thrown into the fray of our branch.
Which brings me to my third story. I was super serious like almost all sunday. My members need to go through a little bit of a refiner's fire, and hopefully I can help lead them in to that furnace! I told the priesthood holders what and how they should change so that the branch might be a successful and powerful ward someday. I was very frank and very direct with the people, but at the same time I was trying to show them the love I have for them and why I want them to be better. Then we had a ward committee meetting and we discussed the bus problem that we have in our area. That was crazy but really helped me realized how much patience that the Lord has blessed me with sometimes. I was so frustrated with how the people were reacting to what I was trying to say to them. Eventually my work will pay off here and the people will understand what it is that I am trying to teach them.
I have had some good chats with my son this week too! And I've taken some more photos with him (mom they're on the PhotoBucket). He and I are growing together so much. I love my zone right now. We are working so hard and trying to be such great missionaries and love the people so much. I just want you all to know how much I love these people here. They are unique and have such wonderful spirits about them.
I love you all so much too! Never think that I don't love you or miss you all. We will have our glorious reunion soon enough!
Love, Elder Braden D. Bolton
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Queen of the Ball.....
10/13/10
Photos
Betcha I'm the only gal you know who has been the Queen of the Bosom Ball! Was fun, hugs!
They even gave me a pretty Tiara and a pink ribbon sash to wear. It was fun. xoxoxo me
Saturday, October 9, 2010
5K fundraiser for Teemant Family - Cancer Run
AnnMarie wrote:
Leo Teemant was recently diagnosed with cancer. I have known him and his wife as neighbors and through our church callings. Leo is in the bishopric in the PP10 Ward, and Amy Teemant, his wife, was Young Woman president for their ward. They have three small children. He graduated from BYU in August, but before he found employment was diagnosed with cancer within days of graduation. It is in an advanced stage and his needs are very serious. Friends of Amy and Leo Teemant are organizing a fundraiser and 5K run to benefit the family. Without insurance and employment, the expenses they face are staggering. This is a positive way the community may help them.
If you are not available, you may still donate to the family through the link below.
Here is the website link: http://fivetofightcancer.com/
Please feel free to share this site with anyone you think would be interested. I look forward to seeing you there.
Thank you,
AnnMarie Howard
Saturday, October 2, 2010
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