Good Morning / Afternoon. This week you’ll get an uninspiring update on everyone’s activities the land of President-elect Donald Trump.
Mom is knee-deep in Primary President activities. The new Sunday School initiative to improve gospel teaching in the church (more interactive, less lecture) means that once a month, they hold teacher improvement meetings during the 2nd and 3rd hour of church, and invite the teachers from Primary, YM, YW and SS to attend. That means there need to be replacements for each of those teachers available once a month. Mom has been thinking and praying about it, then made the rounds yesterday and invited a lot of barely active / newly active members to help with that. They all told her yes. All in all, this calling has given her a stretching but natural outlet for her gospel talents, and she’s doing good things with the opportunity. We’re proud of her.
Abby asked Porter out last week. They went to a showing of the updated Meet the Mormons, I think at the visitor’s center in Idaho Falls. Abby’s family is looking to move to another house somewhere (still in Jefferson County), so they also looked at a few houses for sale after the fact. He’ll deny it with a slightly disconcerted look, but he’s had a crush on Abby for a long time, so we’re interested to see what happens. Colton Campbell’s mom sent a note the other day thanking us for raising him, and saying how much they appreciate his influence with Colton. That goes both ways. Porter just put in his application at Boise State, and is prepping his application for U of U. That’s been a surprise. Last year he was thinking Burkley, but after the Space Camp last summer, he realize that Boise has one of only 3 programs that actively feeds NASA (3 of the most recent astronauts were Boise State alumni).
Pace has worked a couple of Saturdays this month for Adam Korth, who bought the Lindstrom’s house out by Robert Poole. They are putting in a fairly extensive set of corrals, and he’s had a few of the boys from the ward helping. Last week, Pace came home after a full day looking like he’d wrestled several muddy posts… and lost. Turns out he had, in addition to capping a spouting irrigation pipe, while the water was going. He wasn’t as dirty yesterday, but put in a full afternoon (Merit Badge Pow Wow in the morning). It’s been good for him. He put in his application to work at Salmon High Adventure.
Tad also attended the Pow Wow. He’s still attached at the hip with Brigham Nelson. They’ve been attending a Dave Ramsey money management class with Brigham on Wednesday nights. He’s excited about putting his summer mowing money into a Mutual Account. He’s working with mom to find one and transfer his money in before his mission. Wow. A) that he has enough money… thanks to Brigham for working together on the lawn mowing business, B) that he has the interest… thanks to Brigham for taking him to the classes, and C) that he’s planning now for a mission… thanks to a lot of people. He’s really had a good couple of years recently, and seems to be getting a lot more self-confident. Mom, Becky and Lacy took Tad, Brigham and Isaac out of school on Friday and went on a 25 mile bike ride from Ashton to Tetonia. It was summer weather and they went across three huge bridges on the old train bed.
Sadie recently changed rooms, and now has her own bedroom… sort of. For the last year, she’s been asking Mom if she could live in the coat room by the front door. Mom finally gave in, and last week when they had a day out of school because of a gas leak, she moved a mattress and all her stuff into the entryway closet. It looks a LOT like Harry Potter’s room under the stairs, but she’s totally happy with it. Mom’s going to give it until
Christmas before reviewing. We’ll see.The good news is that room finally has all the coats off the floor.
Davis also inherited his own room, partially as a way to isolate the cause of contention away from both Drew and Tad :) His first act as king of his room was to consolidate all the furniture and leave the majority of the room open for wrestling and other forms of recreation. The whole family ended up in there last night with Mom playing UNO, so strangely, isolating Davis has made him more social :)
Drew is blissfully oblivious. He loves school, loves learning Chinese, and loves playing with is siblings, at least until he gets hurt or offended. Mom has a little book of stories where you randomly fill in the blank with a noun, verb, etc, and get a funny story out the other end. I was surprised to see he had written several words by himself yesterday at church to fill in one of those stories. Mom read the story at the table, and Drew just laughed and laughed at his story, which did include the word “chicken”, the default humor word for Drew. Lots of punchlines include the word chicken right now. (news flash: it’s 5:30 am, Drew just threw up, and Tad just announced it to Mom who’s in the bathtub. Normal day in paradise.)
I’m working long hours again for end of year, which is a blessing. We’ve been blessed financially this year (thanks for that) but that’s usually tied to crazy deadlines. I’m going to Boise on Thursday / Friday to meet with Simplot to plan promotional opportunities for their GMO potato next year. That’s in the middle of a project where we’re animating 20 training modules for an online learning company… by Nov 30. I’ll come home Friday night and spearhead a West Piney construction project on Saturday morning (those always hit at the wrong time). It doesn’t leave a lot of time or patience for the most important things in life, but the money has been helpful.
We love you and pray for you. Tell us some details about some of those you’re teaching.
Love Dad
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