E-mail - June 14, 2008

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

I sent a card, it should come today, if not it will for sure be there Monday. I love you lots, and I can't begin to enumerate all the things that you do for me. I give you "Best Daddy Ever" award. Thanks for always being there, listening, making me see sense, and giving most excellent advice.

Thank you all so much for your letters, the tandem bike sounds like lots of fun. Of course all the junk in the garage is dad's, who is the pack rat? (Whitney doesn't count - all her junk stays in her room). I got to ride my bide yesterday, I nearly killed myself every time we came to a complete stop. When Elder Kussee put my bike together, he put the fender on too low on my bike seat which made it too high for me to get on and off properly. I was able to get some of it off, but I don't have the proper tools to fully take it off, luckily the Elders do. I'll get that fixed today.

I hope Taylor had a wonderful time at EFY, and I'm sure she is thrilled at the prospect of not starving to death at a later date thanks to being prepared. Go team. (We bought freeze dried food storage - that is what she is talking about).

Where is the DVD of Whitney singing? I want to see my sister rock the house. I don't play the piano better, I just play it louder - big difference.

Good luck Danny! I'm rooting for you.

Let's see, we sent Sister Smith home Wednesday night. It's been a little weird just the two of us, a line from "The Lion King" keeps going through my mind, "Our trio's down to two". Thursday Benny and I had a chat with President and Sister Summerhays. President gave Benny a blessing that basically said that she would finish her mission and that she would be healed in God's time.

Anyway, like I said we rode our bikes to do service - when we got back Benny was so sick she could barely move. She went to bed at 7 - I wrote in Books of Mormon, pamphlets, and pass along cards, cleaned, learned about church history, talked to the DL for awhile and finally it was time to go to bed. I've never been so happy to have 10:30 come around. I was bored.

So yea, that's me. Love you all lots and wish you a happy day. If you're having steak Sunday, eat an extra piece for me.

The Church is true, The Book is blue, write Kelli letters, and have a nice day. Kelli

Kelli has a camera!

Sister Smith and Sister Wilcox

Sisters Benny, Smithers, and me

District picture except for Sister Bowcutt - she was sick

E-mail - April 9, 2008

Thank you so much! I love that the camera is red - it made my heart happy. I went to go pick it up on Saturday and the post office was closed. I had to wait till this morning to go get it - pout. I had an excellent B-day. Wakulla Springs was a lot of fun, we saw upwards of 6 Gators. Most were only a couple feet long - still young things, that doesn't mean they couldn't hurt you if they wanted. We were very safe inside a big old boat. We saw lots of birds and a really cool flower called a Spider Lily or something like that.

On the date of my birth we had the privilege of teaching Relief Society. It probably wasn't as good as Whitney's lesson, but considering we had two hours to prepare we did a fairly decent job. I made a carrot cake the night before (no I never change), it was a tough choice between spice cake and carrot cake. Since I had spice cake last year carrot won. I sang "The Birthday Song" so it really did feel like my birthday. I had an excellent debate with Elders Call and Wall about politics. They are on opposite sides of the political spectrum and I'm somewhere in between them. I'm also heartless and don't possess charity - they were both razzing me for that.

I don't know what I'm going to do when I leave Tally - it is a different mission here than anywhere else in Florida, especially on campus. It has a lot to do with the fact that I'm working with young single adults and not families. We still don't know what is going to happen to Benfield. Sister Summerhays called this morning and told Benfield to double her medication and call her tomorrow. I have no idea what is going to happen.

As for pictures I will get those in the mail Monday. This time will be very unorganized and there will be some pictures that don't make a lot of sense because I'm using Benny's and Smithers pictures and some are from their last area. In the future, I will make a list with a brief explanation of the pictures I send home.

Lance and Neal sent me huge amounts of Harry and David food. Since I can't get hold of either one of them will you thank them for me? My companions and the Elders are grateful for them too.

Teil and Mandrin sent me cards, Grandma 'Loney's card made me smile and I will be sure to use her gift. I just have to think of something I want.

We have a new investigator. Her name is Noly. She is ready, all her friends are Mormon and have served missions. She just needs to get dunked. Monica (another investigator, I forget who I've told you about and who I haven't) is harder to read. She is willing to learn and reads the Book of Mormon. But she hasn't really talked about her feelings, she's fine asking questions but we're having a hard time picking things to teach her 'cause we don't know what she needs. Amanda still is doing great and I will give her the home number.

Anyway I love you and the rest of the fam too. Love Kelli