4-29-13 Mt. Dew experiment

Dear all,

Wow that's crazy. I wish I still knew how to play the piano, not for church music (I think half the people in our ward play the organ) But just to know how to play cool stuff.  [Daniel made the top 16 teens out of 900 in Utah County competing in the Music Festival.  He came away from the Honor's Festival with a $40 check!]  

4/27/13 Mormon Helping Hands

Today we got a quick text from Brother Felix.  He writes:

4/22/13 Fences and Paint

Dear Family,

[This past week right after receiving Michael's letter, the Boston Marathon was bombed at the finish line.] That's crazy, yea I heard a little about it, we don't really get to watch the news and everyone kind of just assumes we know what is going on, so we tend not to find out a whole lot about things.Thank you for wanting to send me articles, but I really can't read them (its apostasy), but thank you! 

Torn and Tan 4/15/13

Hey Fam!

So unfortunately our baptism fell through. He wasn't sure he was ready yet, but he came to church yesterday and still wants to meet with us and plan another date. So hopefully we can get it all worked out soon. Our teaching pool is pretty small, so we have been trying to find people to teach via a ton of tracting. Haven't had any luck but apparently something will come of it. Yesterday we were riding down the street and someone drove by and threw a bible out the window at us. We were in a hurry but today we are gonna go see if it is still there so we can have a new mini Bible. Too bad people don't think we use the Bible. 

4/11/13 Conference Snail Mail letter

What was your guy's favorite talks at conference?  I really like Elder Holland's (obviously).  It is interesting to see the different ways he interprets scriptures than I do.  We missed out on most of Elder Christofferson's talk because some guy came to the chapel and fell asleep and was snoring so loud.  None of us really knew what to do... Of all meetings to fall asleep in the chapel during, he chose the one that you can watch at home.  Kind of ironic.

4/8/13 Spring General Conference

[We bought this chart the day after Michael entered the MTC, but Laura couldn't bare the thought of starting it until Michael got a few weeks under his belt.  Now we are 61 days into his mission!]

4/1/13 - Happy Easter

[It has been Spring Break, so this letter came last week.]

It basically felt like any other Sunday....Except it rained like nothing I have ever seen before! Words cannot describe how hard it rained! It was like getting sprayed with a fire hose! In less than ten minutes the water on the sides of the road was up to my ankles deep...and I was on a bike!! It was crazy! Church was good but none of our investigators showed up...oh well. It was nice to get to focus on what was being taught more fully instead of how to help them understand. But then again we have such a small ward that we have to pass the sacrament every week, and we got asked to teach elder's quorum next week because the teachers are all gonna be gone. It really makes me appreciate Utah for reasons I never thought of before, like having a primary (there were only 10 kids in the musical number, and there are maybe 10 in primary total) or having young men (more than 5 total). It is interesting.