Are you getting excited for Christmas or does it sort of feel like another day over there?
We are getting ready, well I guess I hope we are ready at this point, for Christmas. The tree is up and stockings are hung. We had Christmas with Grant and Kirsten on Thursday night before they left for Texas. That was fun to see them open their gifts and got dad a stress burro and burro t-shirt totally awesome :) We are waiting for a credit card for you and then I'll mail you one last box! So it will be sometime in January. Hopefully you have a nice little Christmas with your companion.
So Kate Keller may be getting engaged this Christmas! We'll fill you in after we go up for New Years! We finally met the family in our ward who's son is serving in the same mission. It sounds like he's serving in an area by the temple. And it sounds like their are lots of members in that area. And he loves it in New Zealand too! Must be a great mission ;)
I'm enjoying Pilates. I'll drop Percy off in the morning for a hair cut and then pick him up after pilates. Then.... we will hang out and probably watch a Christmas movie while we wait for you to call!! Speaking of which do you call us or do we call you? I guess we need to exchange some skype numbers. I'll get dad on that, haha, since I don't even know mine. So excited to see your face! A couple women played a Christmas song on the violin today at church and I thought how much I miss hearing your viola! But all in good time.
Ok, I'm just finishing updating Christmas card address. Then off to find a christmas scripture for the chalk board :) Hmm and to finish reading the book of mormon, 35 more pages!! Almost done.
Love love love you
mom
First off, I got your Christmas card!!! Yay thank you!!! I like the picture you chose for me ;) next year I'll send one with a badge on me haha
I've been reading the teachings of Gordon B Hinkley and came across this cool passage so I screenshotted it and am sending it!
Also I found some scriptures in the Book of Mormon that made me think of you! 1 Nephi 8:37-38 reads
37 And he did exhort them then with all the feeling of a tender parent, that they would hearken to his words, that perhaps the Lord would be merciful to them, and not cast them off; yea, my father did preach unto them.
38 And after he had preached unto them, and also prophesied unto them of many things, he bade them to keep the commandments of the Lord; and he did cease speaking unto them.
I really like when it says with the feeling of a tender parent. It makes me think of the struggle you are going through with Ethan right now. I know he is a good kid and going to make good decisions, even if right now he's being a little dumb. But your influence as a mother is great, even if its just inviting him to read the scriptures and go to church and then cease speaking to him like in vs 38. I know I didnt always appreciate your influence until I was in college, and then your words and advice played repeatedly in my mind.
Anyways thanks for everything you do! I'm pretty sure i can only call family on Christmas, and even if I could call them they wouldn't be open because of the holidays Haha. Keep me updated, I will talk to the office missionaries about it :)
Also I've been invited to a few events so I wanted to see what day would work best for yous. I can either skupe you on Christmad day NZ or America so it could be tomorrow or the day after! I dont know what my companions doing so I dont know what time will be best. Most likely it will be 3 tomorrow, but I might email you and tell you that its Christmas day in America. Tell me what's best for yous. I really hope to see everyone! I'm surprised you haven't been emailing me these past few weeks asking about Skype date and times Haha!!
Can't wait to talk to you tomorrow!!!!!
Much love
Sister Keller
What, no. I want to Skype with you tomorrow 😊😊😊. Or both days 😉 hahaha. We are planning on tomorrow. We were saying 3:30, but 3pm is great too!! The sooner the better! I would hound Grant and it never helped, one year we didn't even hear from him till the night before when he was going to call us. You didn't tell us if you need a number 😬...
Well, let us know if it's not tomorrow.
mom
Haha okay chances are I'm skyping you tomorrow!! Talk to you around 3! Much love
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