Good Morning Dallin!
How are you doing? I'm sure you are staying pretty busy.
It's been a great week here. Pretty busy. We had an open house for Caleb at our house last night. All the usuals came and we had a lot of food. He is very excited to go. He gave a great talk in Sacrament meeting and expressed his love for you. It made me cry, of course :) He goes into the MTC on Wednesday. Some of his co-workers came to the party and it was a nice missionary contact for them.
I'm working hard on the Primary program. It's fun to be back in Primary. We had our ward Halloween Pary on Saturday. 220 people came with lots of non-members. It was really fun. I didn't win the Chili cookoff. Lake Hills Ward is tough competition! The Bauers dressed up as twin robots--sooooo funny!!
Dad is still working very hard and is working Mason as well. Dad has an inflammation on his collar bone called costacondritis. Very painful. We went to the clinic on Saturday to make sure it wasn't a fracture. He was in so much pain he was willing to take the shot in the fanny from the male nurse, who we think was gay... HAHA! I wish I would have taken a pic. :)
I think you know by now that you are getting another nephew. Ang is doing great and Cade is trying to figure out where his little brother is. Chels is doing great in school. She really appreciates her schooling now. Vance's b-day is today--3 YEARS OLD! Wow-time flies by. He is such a talker. He can sing "let's get down to business" from Mulan. So funny.
Beau is doing great-back in Alaska and still living with the Light's. He's made some good friends there.
Well, your others buds are doing great in the missionary field. Have you seen Dave? If you do, tell him hello and that we pray for all of you!
Dad says to tell you hello and that he is having lunch with Uncle John Light today. He's here hunting with Peter.
Well, gotta get to work. We love you. Keep up the great work. All the ward members ask about you all the time.
Mom
PS- oh and check this out:
“As Church leaders had anticipated when the change was announced, the number of individuals who have begun the missionary application process has increased significantly. Typically approximately 700 new applications are started each week. The last two weeks that number has increased to approximately 4,000 per week.
Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland predicted that lowering the age limits for young Mormon missionaries would trigger a "dramatic" uptick in their numbers. Turns out, dramatic was an understatement. Try a 471 percent jump in applications — so far! "Slightly more than half of the applicants are women,"
This means that there will be probably 250 missionaries in the Iowa Des Moines mission by next year(currently we are to full capacity with 186)!
This is the Lord's work!
Hey Mom!
We are indeed busy. Denise has taken a couple steps backward because we taught her the word of wisdom a few days ago. We plan to teach her the stop smoking workshop on Tuesday, which is proven to make you a non smoker in seven days. The guy we taught the workshop to in Keokuk named Dillon never joined the church, but he still doesn't smoke to this day. We also had a great stake conference this week about eternal families and Agusta the Indian lady came to it with the Stake President and his wife. Ken is continuing to read the Book of Mormon, but he is reading it at an intellectual level. Hopefully the Lord will help him understand its importance.
Speaking of gay guys, One night we were knocking in this apartment building. The walls and doors are paper thin, so after you knock a door and the door closes you can still hear them talking about you with their friends. Anyway, so we knocked this one door and this guy who is obviously homosexual answers and says he is an atheist and wouldn't talk about it. When the door closed a girl inside was like "mormons? were they cute?" and he said "yeah, they actually were!" hah.
My time in Iowa City is quickly coming to an end! I love it here and I love the ward. I only have two more weeks to help Elder Musick keep this area going.
Love you,
Elder Tall
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