I was reading an old Elder Holland talk, “Tomorrow the Lord Will Do Wonders Among You,” which theme was coincidentally taken from the same scripture as the one Hunter mentioned in Joshua. I was thinking, missionaries don’t have to wait until tomorrow for wonders, as they’re always among you. Thinking of last week’s letter it’s a wonder you weren’t hurt more than a finger! But getting your new friend and his wife to church is a good story. And a wonder. Elder Holland mentioned Lucifer not giving up on making us miserable, like himself, because he can’t progress. We can. “Please remember tomorrow, and all the days after that, that the Lord blesses those who want to improve, who accept the need for commandments and try to keep them, who cherish Christ-like virtues and strive to the best of their ability to acquire them. If you stumble in that pursuit, so does everyone; the Savior is there to help you keep going.”
Your niece is getting chubby. We usually bother her parents every night just to see her cute grumpy tired face. It’s fun to see her changing, her hair getting longer, her hands now liking to touch her bottle, her stretches and grunts. Just adorable. That she looks a bit like I did is just icing on the cake.
Your siblings have found a new quiz show, actually an ap, that comes on every night at 8 p.m. 12 questions for a chance at $2000; sometimes 15 for $15,000. You’ll love it. It’s for people who collect random trivia facts. The questions obviously get more challenging. They started when there were 300k, now there’s almost 2 million competing. We have multiple units out at once, and help each other on the questions, and have gotten up to question 10. Now it’s become the time to gather for scripture and prayer, since their alarms remind them of the game. Perfect. If you can’t beat them, join them.
Breyer’s surprising everyone with her love of wash. She likes to load the wash. Loves to push the buttons. Her favorite is cleaning out the lint screen. Every day she grabs my hand and says, “Is it wash time?” She’ll empty the large baskets that collect dirty laundry in each bathroom, knows how to loads darks, or whites, and is such a big, sweet help.
Miller has been working on his erosion science project all week. A report should technically be easier than doing a project, but he is not interested. He’s been coloring all week. Or trying to. He does great in school, but has no idea how big his report should be, as this hasn’t been done before. I don’t either. He played in a prime game yesterday. I didn’t go, but our neighbor said he played really hard. Yeah for effort. He had his pinewood derby car cut at cub scouts. He’s decided that since it’s his last year he’s doing the car all by himself. Again, yeah. If you ask Miller where he wants to go on a mission, he’ll tell you Brazil, so he can learn the language that allows all the brothers to talk in secret.
Sawyer is still limping. He has parked the crutches, finally took off the boot, and is wearing a brace inside his tennis shoe. Last week’s game was okay to miss as they should have won without him. This week’s game is key to winning, or not, the district championship. Good ol’Aledo. And he still can’t jump. Or run. He can limp, slide, and shoot. Sawyer made Dad a walking stick for Christmas, with a chicken foot lashed at the top. Dad wanted it to hold a baseball, so Sawyer’s been working on adding it, also engraving things on the handle. It will hold a prominent position in the library.
Cooper had another tennis tournament, this one at home Friday morning. He played four matches, all day long, and was 2-2. He was mucho sore Saturday morning. I snuck back and forth all day to see him play, in between wash, shopping, etc. We stumbled upon an article from November :
Named to the all-district teams were: First Team: Wade Neeper/Cooper Schenewark
He didn’t know.
And as a wrap up, the Super Bowl results are in, the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots. If the Pats win, they'll break the record of most wins by the Dallas Cowboys of five.
One day while I was heading home, there was a 1000 acre fire in Parker county, near the stake c enter. The wind was blowing about 30 mph, in big gusts, and the fire was moving about 25 mph. So scary. I was delayed getting home for about an hour due to road closures smoke, and a vehicle fire.
The next morning I was driving up a hill at 4:30 a.m. and a basketball sized fire ball went under my car. I don't know where it came from, if it was from a car or truck or not, but when I eventually pulled over, could smell burned plastic underneath my back tire. And on I go.
Love, love, love,
Mom
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