Dear Family,
This is sort of a “normal” Sunday for us. We are not travelling. We are fasting. Three elders are in the living room skyping, and we’ll have some chili for dinner a little later. I don’t know how many I’ll feed. I don’t know if the 3 elders will stay for dinner, nor do I know if the elders who arrive at 7:00 Pm will be hungry. And since it is Fast Sunday I was not planning on anyone at all. These meetings were just set-up at church.
There has been a huge shut-down of social media this week in the country. It included lots of news outlets, FB, Twitter, U-tube, and even Skype. But luckily we could still email. When such blackouts occur, I check some “outside” news source for info. I now know when some applications do not work, that there are problems in the country. Very interesting…. Or not interesting. Check your news.
Today I was startled when Dad called up YV - Y and asked him to make an announcement. He is being transferred! He has been here since October 2015. So we feel like we own him and he owns the Branch. He is leaving a huge hole. We know that transfers occur, but it takes so long to gather people here, that I wish he could stay for the whole time. He has been very good. He is the Navajo. Evidently the MP called him this AM and gave him the news. We have had a three-some and now there are even-number of YVs in the mission.
We are preparing for our trip to Kazakhstan on Wednesday. We will go to two cities, and dad will give firesides. We arrive at one of the cities at 3:30 AM. And evidently is it like Siberia. You can see the cities on the map. It is part of our mission, but Russian speaking. So, it won’t be a vacation, but it will be a change of pace. We are packing warm clothes. It is almost 70 degrees here today. We haven’t had any winter yet.
It was wonderful to hear from ALL of you this week. Sorry the Pearsons had a complete black-out. Good thing they have a daughter living across the street. What a bizarre event. And I hear the melodrama went well. Evidently some Cleggs and a Moore went to Sadies’ Hawkins. Shoshauna sent us photos of Nelise and Nathaniel at taekwondo. Kara is still flitting all over the place with VolleyBall. And Kaelin was in Arizona. The Browns always have a huge job of shuttling their children to games and activities. Their schedule begins at 5:30 AM.
We miss you all. Thanks for your support. We’ve noticed that you all deposit $5.00 into our mission fund yearly. We appreciate that.
Love,
Mother
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