Here are a few as Zak grows....
Here he is home from his first
Boy Scout High Sierra Trip;
2005, he is 12. That is his
First day of 4th Grade! brother, Chase and Dad in the picture.
Here he is, after being in the the MTC for about 3 weeks.
There are quite a few things in this letter that you, the reader, may not understand. I will put an explanation in red so you can comprehend the fullness of Zak. ENJOY!
QUESTIONS:
How do you like the time change? Is it
now light when you wake up? Or was the whole thing a non-issue for you?
it was not a big deal. I haven't
thought about the light or anything. I kind of just forgot anything was even
different.
What of that BYU-I talk that Bro Bednar
gave?
I do remember telling you about that
now. I saw a video of him giving it while I was in the mtc. I really liked it,
I've looked over my notes (especially because I think it's in that talk he
chastises people about the way they take notes and never look at them again).
My favorite example he gave was how Christ healed the ear of one of the
soldiers who was capturing/imprisoning him. In Jesus the Christ it also talks
about how he would not use the priesthood to make himself bread after he had
fasted 40 days and was suffering and tempted (food being a life necessity but
very soon after he did turn water to wine for a wedding (a luxury) just to make
his Mother and others happier (and he did not take credit).
This is a beautiful talk given by Elder Bednar to students at BYU Idaho in 2003. Here is a link if you are interested in reading it!
That's a great talk for President
Becera to share. Now being a missionary and more appreciating what a mission
president is I wish I had paid more attention to him and the missionaries and
see how they do things in the Arcadia
One thing I really love about the
direction President Packard is pushing us is that with all our working with
members we can see how people do have that desire to share the gospel, and we
get to help. It can be pretty hard to actually make it real; bring the theory
of sharing the gospel to real life. I think a lot of times for everyone we can
hear a great talk or feel the spirit in many ways, but after wards we kind of
have a "therefore... what?" moment. I really enjoy being able to help
both inspire and especially educate how. It can be tough, because it involves
change, but that's what faith, repentance, endure to the end, etc (the gospel
of Jesus Christ) is all about.
(I don't feel like I have as much to
report this week, so I guess I have not choice but to give a soliliqua about my
missionary thoughts) (miss-spelling here was intentional)
Here Zak is making a reference to an episode of Survivor. One time a guy got up and said that he wanted to give a soliloquy but he pronounced it wrong. It was very funny.
Did you get your socks?
I am wearing them now! It was fun to
get 2 packages at once. Very good pictures. Funny to be flipping through and
seeing all the idaho Hawaii
I sent Zak some pictures. We went to Idaho to see Grandma and to go sledding. Kerry and I also got the opportunity to go to Hawaii, I included those pictures too. Kylie also enjoys taking artsy pictures and likes to take pictures of her eye! Zak has also sent us a picture of his eye too. It also ended up being FAR cheaper to send Zak 2 packages than to have it all in one envelope. Ridiculous! Just know that anything 13 ounces or under goes 1st class, and the cost is under $2.50; over 13 ounces and it is way more expensive.
Did you get the CFP card...maybe you
didn’t “get” it...
yes! I think that was a week ago in a
different package with pictures and things. I didn't get it initially, except
that you also sent an annotated email that I sent home highlighting the line
(C)ole (F)amily (P)ower!
Good job to everyone on there sports
successes! I think the best analogy for griffin's baseball heroics would have
been our ol' pal Jeffery, seeing he was the champion of hitting doubles. In Griffin
Scoring goals is always fun to. I
didn't get to score too many, so that's good for her. Kylie scored a goal in her soccer game! She is also going to interview to be on the Arcadia High School newspaper.
I'll be interested to hear what happens
with the AHS newspaper idea.It was never my kind of thing; maybe I should have
taken English honors and I would have had such academically admiral ambitions.
Or maybe kylie should just send an app
to Harvard now so she can skip high school and we'll hang out on P-days. I can
ask President (Clayton) Christensen to pull a few strings and make it happen.
I'm sure Chase will be perfectly fine
by the time I email next; infact he'll probably have forgotten about the whole
thing (uh-oh...). Chase went skiing on Saturday, he fell, hit is head, got a concussion and had NO short term memory. By Monday, he is doing much better. He remembers nothing of Saturday. Good thing there is video...
that sort of thing is sort of scary
though, but how long did it take Steven to completely get over it after his
dodgeball related head-clonk? Steven got a concussion a year or more ago. He tried to drive home, but couldn't remember how to do it...someone had to come and pick him up. Thanks, Kathleen Magnusson.
has he gotten a blessing from anyone?
This week one of the young men here got
there mission call. Going to Brazil Chicago
Later today we are going to the ESPN
HQ! we'll be in the tour in a few hours. I have my camera. Not sure yet whether
I'll spend some money on overpriced EPSN stuff. I feel like I really ought to
get some form of memorabilia Maybe they'll let me be the guest star on
SportsNation or something; I'd talk about Kylie and griffin's achievements and
include a quote from a college QB legend: "when you live right, good
things happen". Actually, it was Austin Collie who said this, he is a receiver for the Colts. I think he said this after a BYU game. Nice try, Zak. So close!
This week had it's usual ups and downs.
I think we're being tested a little bit to see if we believe if evert success
really is an invite, which is something we say a lot. According to Ether 12
(especially verse 37) it is; and the Book of Mormon really tends to be right
about this sort of thing, so I'll have to remember that.
One super cool thing was yesterday in
Priesthood at the end of the announcements someone stood up and quickly talked
about how the day after we had a visit with his family they had a great
missionary experience and he felt we really helped and he really appreciated
it. It was completely unexpected for him to do that, and very nice.
We now have assignments from the Elders
Quorum, Relief Society and High Priest's of things they'd like us to help with
which is great. Mostly it's tracking down people they don't know, and for some
people connecting home teachers to their teachee's.
so most of the members are doing good,
the leadership is doing pretty good, the recent converts are doing pretty good,
hopefully this next week our investigators will achieve "doing good"
status as well (they are priority #1 after all).
alrighty,
that about covers all my exciting news for this week. Love you all!
Love you too, Zak!
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