Saturday, June 23, 2007

Whitney's Mission Call

She's going to
SANTIAGO, CHILE
west mission!
And she reports to the MTC on August the 1st. And she's going to learn SPANISH......fluently!
On Friday the 22 of June, Whitney's mission call came in the mail, she was so excited because for almost a week, since last Sunday, she knew it was in the mail somewhere. Every day during the week she anticipated that that was the day that it would come, so when it finally came, she was sooo happy!
But, she couldn't open her very long anticipated letter because Gaila, Grandma, and Caitlin weren't home and wouldn't be home for a couple hours, so she waited for a little while and couldn't take the excitement much longer so she called them on the celly phone and read the letter over the phone, while Gaila cried the whole time!

Friday, June 15, 2007

Happy Father's Day!



He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland




My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew




When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874