We got a family membership to the South Davis Recreation Center on Tuesday January 29th. That day Me, James, Jules, and Mom went swimming. On the 30th Me, James, and Jules went ice skating, we rented skates there. On the 31st we went ice skating again. It is very very fun!!! Jules hit her tail bone hard, but James said''he had a fun time'' Jules said, ''the pool will be fun,'' ''And I think it will be fun to get really GOOD at swiming !,'' James said ''He LIKES the whole Place!!!.''
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Lee's Mission Call
Early in December Lee finished his mission papers and the Bishop and Stake President sent them in. On Dec.19th it showed up in the mail. Lee's mission call came in the mail in the afternoon, but no one was home, so Lee brought the envelope into the house from the mail box and hid it under the couch in the livingroom. Later that evening, he told us that it had come. Marie and JP were at our house because we were planning to play Christmas music as a family that evening. When we learned that Lee's call was here, JP sent Emily to get his camera from Grandma Linda's house. So Grandma came down to see him open his call too.
For the past week or so, everyone had been making guesses for where he would go, James Argentina, Angela Philippines, Me Sweden (i don't have any idea why) Levi Olsen said Russia, Grandma said Denmark she said she had guessed it for all her sons and none had been called there yet so she guessed it again, Lee said he was going to go to some place in South America.
So when he opened up his call, Grandma was on the phone with Gordon and we were on the phone with Wade and afterwards we called Mike and Carrie's family to tell them where he got called to. Lee read the "Dear Elder" and then he went along and it said "you are hereby called to serve in the" and here he stumbled and couldn't pronounce the name of the mission "the Bacolod Pilippines Mission" then Angela was like"yes whoohooo" because she guessed the right place. Then further down it said "report the the MTC in Provo UT on March 26th." I think he was happy to know that he would learn the Tagalog language.
The next Saturday one of Emily's friends who had recently returned from the same mission came over to our house. He showed us some pictures of the mission and said that there is the hot rainy season and the hot hot season. Some time soon after Mike and Carrie's Family called and said that the missionarys had come to their house for dinner one of them was from the Philippines, he talked to Lee for a minute trying to teach him how to pronouce the name of the mission, Lee said he finally stopped trying to help him and just said "yah you'll do great ." On Sunday Night January 27th we went to a family's house in our ward. They invited us to do a family night thing and they also invited a friend of theirs who had just returned from the same mission to show slides and answer any questions Lee might have. The new returned missonary said he was tall at 5' 9" and with red hair. The missionaries advice was to bring a couple of umbrellas and learn to cook before you go there (your companions will love you).
While we were there, we learned that President Hinkley had passed away.
For the past week or so, everyone had been making guesses for where he would go, James Argentina, Angela Philippines, Me Sweden (i don't have any idea why) Levi Olsen said Russia, Grandma said Denmark she said she had guessed it for all her sons and none had been called there yet so she guessed it again, Lee said he was going to go to some place in South America.
So when he opened up his call, Grandma was on the phone with Gordon and we were on the phone with Wade and afterwards we called Mike and Carrie's family to tell them where he got called to. Lee read the "Dear Elder" and then he went along and it said "you are hereby called to serve in the" and here he stumbled and couldn't pronounce the name of the mission "the Bacolod Pilippines Mission" then Angela was like"yes whoohooo" because she guessed the right place. Then further down it said "report the the MTC in Provo UT on March 26th." I think he was happy to know that he would learn the Tagalog language.
The next Saturday one of Emily's friends who had recently returned from the same mission came over to our house. He showed us some pictures of the mission and said that there is the hot rainy season and the hot hot season. Some time soon after Mike and Carrie's Family called and said that the missionarys had come to their house for dinner one of them was from the Philippines, he talked to Lee for a minute trying to teach him how to pronouce the name of the mission, Lee said he finally stopped trying to help him and just said "yah you'll do great ." On Sunday Night January 27th we went to a family's house in our ward. They invited us to do a family night thing and they also invited a friend of theirs who had just returned from the same mission to show slides and answer any questions Lee might have. The new returned missonary said he was tall at 5' 9" and with red hair. The missionaries advice was to bring a couple of umbrellas and learn to cook before you go there (your companions will love you).
While we were there, we learned that President Hinkley had passed away.
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