Mom's Letter

Hello dearest daughter,

I keep sitting down to write to you and other things pop up!  I saw an email from facebook saying a lot of people liked something on the Hamilton Mission page so I had to go and see :)  It was about really taping up the boxes we mail to NZ, sigh.  I already mailed yours this morning!! Hope it makes it safely to you. 
        side note:  there are two of a lot of things, one for you and one for your companion.  the things with tags without a name are for your companion, you may have a different one by Christmas, so I left them blank.  There are also a few things wrapped for you to open on christmas... not much, didn't know what you would want to haul around with you for another year!  And I didn't know if you needed dresses or clothes or things like that.  The stuff that isn't wrapped you can enjoy before christmas or for Christmas eve, whatever. 

Then I saw a post about the Opotiki fb page and found the right one!  Your cute face is right in the back middle of the home page for the Opotiki ward page.  It's private to I asked to join :)

Ethan has been home sick the past two days with a fever... yep some kind of flu.  It's not bad at all and he feels great while he is on advil and tylenol.  But as soon as they wear off he's got the chills or is cooking hot.   Hopefully it breaks by Sunday night so he doesn't miss anymore school.  Although he's a pretty easy patient!  Can't complain.  I've been making him help me when he feels good get somethings around the house done.  Thus I get distracted and forget to write to you.  I was going to write right after I read my scriptures to that I could send uplifting thoughts, but then I ran to the store and mailed your box :).  See what I mean.  It takes a lot to get me to sit and focus at the computer, hahahaha.

Well, is there anything you do need?  We are just plugging along.  We are going to go see the second Fantastic Beasts movie tonight at 10pm!  That should be fun and the Tingey's are going to do a bunch of sealings at Bountiful Temple at 4pm tomorrow (Saturday), it will be nice to get a lot of those done too.

Oh, I also saw on the Hamilton FB page that some people have done a couple different things to help avoid all the fees when you buy stuff on your bank card.  Everytime you make a purchase you are charged about 5$ in fees.  Two options people mentioned were:  One family got their son a amx card on their account because amx doesn't charge international fees.  We could do that.  Do most places take american express in NZ?  The other was their son opened a bank account in NZ and he just transfers $ from his other account and he avoids the extra fees...
Are either of those options you would be interested in?

So all the leaves are pretty much gone and we've had to rake up a ton of leaves and it is freezing cold here now.  I'm missing Texas just a little bit :(  and it's not even winter yet!!  I'm in trouble, haha.  Love the mountains, but I dont' know if the cold is a worthy trade off.

Love you Love you,
mom



Mom you  are the best!! You are so sweet to send me packages, especially stuff for my companion. I'm so grateful for you!!

There isnt anything I want, but if there's extra room could you maybe send some of my tee shirts or my BYU swest shirt? I really dont have anything from home and it would be nice to have.

I can't believe you're thinking of going to Australia! And I can't  believe dad is going to New Zealand??? Yous would be  so close to me it would be strange Haha.

I hope Ethan starts feeling better soon. Grant and kir told me he's been playing heaps of video games so hopefully that's not a problem...

Oh yeah sister Fermanis in our branch said  you should request to be on the FB page again, somehow your request got lost but she wants to accept you

Sorry these emails are a little shorter,  we've been emailing on our phones but it takes twice as long to type emails.

I love all the funny emails you and the rest of the family send throughout  the week. They always make me laugh!!

Love and miss yous!

Sister Keller