Oh my goodness! I thought you were turning 69 this year...talk about a year off. How exciting to be 70 (although we both know that you don't look at all like you're OLD). ;) Christmas is not too far away! How exciting Grandma! Don't worry about your age mainly because the saying is true...
Halloween Cards. I am so excited to receive the card from you. As soon as it comes in the mail I will let you know, so have patience because central american mail systems are rather slow (I honestly believe that if they introduced the Pony Express here the nation would be benefitted).
Kirsten had let me know in February that they were planning on taking you down to Disney again. So, yes, but I have known for a while. :) But how was it? Did you enjoy your trip? Did the kids rip ALL of your hair out this time? Hahaha.
My advice with Rachel: tell her to cook while you play with the dolls. See how she likes that idea. Hahaha. She is such a goofy girl.
Thanks for all of your prayers and for thinking about me. I can feel your love all the way down here. It makes a huge difference knowing that there are so many people rooting for me in this battle that I'm waging down here.
I did get the snail-mail letter. I loved it so much. I love it when Grandpa shares his mission stories with me. They mean so much more to me now that I have had similar experiences...
Love you lots,
Elder Braden Bolton
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Myrna TRAUNTVEIN wrote:
I don't want to seem obsessed with this, but I suppose I am. I will be the BIG 70 in December! So while you are celebrating Christmas Eve there in your mission, I will be celebrating getting OLD. Just be warned, young Elder, that it happens much more quickly than you would suspect. There you are, knowing that with any luck (blessing) at all, you will likely triple your life. Can you imagine how old even doubling 70 would be (140). NO ONE today lives to be that old. Oh, well. I suppose that means that things that I have been procrastinating should be done now and not tomorrow or the next day.
I hope that you receive your Halloween card. After I got them made (and sent them), I thought they were kind of dumb. Too late, they were mailed and on their way. I hope you can find a place to spend a couple of American dollars. Let me know how that goes. I will send your comp a Thanksgiving card but Halloween seemed sort of un-missionary except for a grandson who already knows I am nuts. I know that in most places in the US Halloween is just playful pumpkins and friendly ghosts. Hmm, I don't know about that. Rethinking, rethinking. . .we have Halloween Town in Nephi this year. There was a contest to see who could make the best decorations out of all the businesses along Main Street. Some are fairly gruesome. There are stakes through the center of dummies and refrigerators sitting on top of other dummies. The fire department/EMT station put a wreaked car in front of the building with a bleeding, headless "person" hanging out of the side door. They posted a sign: "Don't text and drive; don't talk on a cell phone and drive; don't drink and drive." The Times-News has a humongous spider crawling up the front. So maybe Halloween. . .
Did Kirsten and Jared let you know that they took us, along with their family, to Disney World. We had lots of fun, got tired out and, after four days of fun and frolic, came home. You know me, I do not like rides like roller coasters. Therefore, little Jake, who is too young, and sometimes Ryan, who is just 48-inches tall, did the little kid things together. I enjoyed those kid rides. They are, after all, just my style. You cannot believe how excited little Jake was to see Mickey Mouse. He ran up and gave him a big hug and then he got in line to wait his turn to get his photo taken with him. Mickey gave him a BIG hug when he got back to him and he was a happy boy!
Rachel stayed overnight with us on Thursday (we are having our temple break so that it can be cleaned) and I spent most of the day playing with her. When we were taking her back home, Gramps asked if she had had fun. "Not really," she said. "I thought we had fun playing dolls," I said. "Not really, you just kept stopping to work." (I fixed lunch and treats and Gramps fixed breakfast "Awful Waffles.") "I just wanted to feed you," I said. "Well, I just wanted to play dolls." So next time, I will not feed her?
Jim has just been called to be in the ward Young Men's Presidency. He will be over Adventurers. Julie will continue on being Cubmaster. She says that, when Jim was called to the YM, she was told she would be released. However, seven people turned the job down. "The eighth person accepted. That was me," she said.
I'm afraid that this is getting too long for you to have time to read so I will close. Gramps and I are fine. We pray for you several times each day and keep your name on the prayer roll at Manti Temple. We have great faith in you and know that you will be a great missionary for our Heavenly Father and our Savior. We so enjoy your letters. (Could you sneak in a sentence on whether or not you ever got Gramps snail-mail letter?)
WE LOVE YOU!
Grammy and Gramps
