Letters to my Children

Hello my dear! Ty it was so good to talk to you on Sunday. It was great to have you and Blake on the phone together, but I felt like we didn’t get enough time to hear bout your week and how you are doing. I’m glad you had a great zone conference and actually got to go out and do finding! And also I’m glad you could reconnect with your Myanmar friends. I’m super glad that you finally got your air conditioning back up and running. It was fun to hear Michael say that he ran into missionaries that knew you. I’m not at all surprised that they said you are an excellent missionary. Keep up the good work! Hello Blake! I’m so glad you were able to travel and arrive safely in Cambodia! What an adventure! We were excitedly waiting to hear from you all week. I loved your letter. I know you were all excited for food at the airport after being at the MTC for months, but—holy smokes—Elder Blackham! Putting down that much food could not have felt good! I hope you enjoyed your Cafe Rio! I’m guessin...

Hello my dearTy! It was great to talk to you tonight. I hope everything worked out for you to go out to the caves. I enjoyed hearing you talk about your contacts this week and hope that you will find success in teaching, and also in training your companion.  Hello my dear Blake! Just a few days left at the MTC—hooray! I’m so excited for you to get out to Cambodia and get started on your work there. I hope the journey is safe and enjoyable and that you will message me to let me know you have arrived and have a place to sleep! I’m enjoying your emails and hope you continue to fill them with all the interesting and uplifting details you experience when you get to Cambodia.  I sent a package to Michael and I’m hoping he can drop it at the MTC Monday. I put some random ugly ties in there hoping you could trade or dispose of them and get them out of my laundry room! I also put in a small bottle of sleep aids. I know you are not crazy about the idea of taking sleeping pills, but I th...

Dear Ty and Blake—  I’ve been the worst letter writer lately! I wanted to share photos from Taiwan with you, and it took me forever to sort them, and I kept getting interrupted and hung up on that project and never actually figured out what to write! And also I couldn’t even remember what I had already told you about and what we did after I talked to you. And now I’m 100% out of google storage and I hate google storage. Bah. Pretty much I’ve just been a jet-lagged mess since we got home from Taiwan! So here’s a recap of Taiwan week #2: Monday: We went to an awesome Buddha museum. The grounds were beautiful and lined by several super tall pagodas. We got to practice our calligraphy. Michael became friends with a monk. The monk gave me a gift basket and took our picture. I thought it was so nice of her! Then Michael explained that the basket wasn’t for me to keep. It was just for me to use to make an offering. Still—a nice gesture. There was a really cool art exhibit inside and ancie...