The Flu

2016-02-21 Terra Letter

Hey Family! 

Well, it has been quite the week! The flu has been going around like wildfire and finally it caught sister Jones. And then it caught me. So we have been extremely exhausted these last few days! And since we missed church, the whole ward knew about it. An older member couple dropped by last night and gave us some meals that were for the "less active sisters" haha. I love the members! We have such a big family here. So ya, sickness! Haha it actually is pretty funny. I literally feel like I am on Ambien right now, it took everything in us just to walk 15 minutes to the church so we could send emails. But, all is well, we will recover soon enough.

We still had some great experiences this week! A few weeks ago we tracted into a Russian man and at first he wasn’t too interested though he took an English book of Mormon and said we could drop by another time to give him one in Russian. Well, once we acquired one in Russian, we went over and he actually gave us his phone number so that we could set up an appointment! So we met with him and his wife on Friday night and they had made us a 3-course meal (keep in mind that is was 8pm haha) and they were so cute! We taught them and they loved how our church really values the family. It was an amazing experience and a great example of how the Lord prepares people. We make friends with the coolest people as missionaries! I love it :)

Well, my brain is extremely slow so I think that is all I can think up of for this week. Church is true! I love you all, have a great week! :)

FROM NATE

Hey Teegs. I just got back to the U after another happening family dinner at the Wunderlis. My friend Riley came and Skyler and his girlfriend Paige. Trevor and Rachel were there and Maks friend along with all the usual suspects. We played the sign game after dinner and then some much more intense basketball than I had anticipated. I don't know if you know the sign game but I played it on pday a couple times in the mission and our family loves it. I went to Hawaii as dad said last week. It was so much fun to get some sunshine and play some golf and grass. We went to the beach and visited a big canyon on the last day and ate some good food along the way. Now the weather is pretty warm here all of a sudden it went from 30 to 55 and the inversion went away so everyone is pretty stoked about that. Other than that just school and more golf for me this past week. That will probably be my life until school ends. Trying to make some friends especially of the female type along the way. Tata!

From DAD

Hey Bear!

I'm back in San Francisco. Closing arguments are tomorrow in this trial. Hope for the best!  This has been a weird trial because I was originally just supposed to cover a couple days for a colleague of mine, but it turned in to me taking over a three week trial. So I didn't expect to be this busy over the last few weeks, but here I am. Fortunately, we have raised good kids who can now hold down the fort when mom and I are out of town.  That's really cool. We have an awesome family!

It was Mak's birthday today and the super bowl.  Me, Mak, Megan, Essie, and Sammie went to the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate. Yum. 

We are all so proud of you for what you're doing.  Hang in there!  We love you!

Love,

Dad