Sister Walker and Cockroaches YUK!

Chelsee's letter is very positive and uplifting as usual. She's working hard and sounds like she's enjoying every minute of it. For some reason I cannot picture my 'germ-a-phobe' daughter living with cockroaches and being OK with that. But she is! Wow!

Here's some highlights from this week's letter:

• Life is amazing as always!!
• I am looking forward to Treicy’s baptism this Saturday! Holy heck, if you want to see someone whose life has been changed because of the gospel, look at Treicy! I have seen such a HUGE change in her! It is amazing what the gospel does for us! It puts a smile on my face!
• So, this week has been even hotter than last. It has been around 104 the whole week. Yeah, try biking in that. I now take 2 showers a day! It has been fun being on bike part-time because we are meeting TONS of people. Hopefully one of these days my rear end will stop hurting! I am quite proud-ish of the fact that I took a $20 bike and turned it into a very useable bike! I put lots of work into it and it is as good as new now. And… I did the whole thing myself. New breaks, new tires/ tubes, new seat… and a good shine up! It looks great. Who knows maybe I’ve found my lot in life… a bikeologist! Ok, so I made that word up but it sounds like a cool title!
• This morning I went to a sealing of a family I worked with in Kingman. IT WAS 100% INCREDIBLE!!!! Folks, that is what this work is all about. It was fun to see most of the missionaries that had worked with them from the very beginning came back to be there! The Paulsens have had a huge impact on a lot of missionaries. I loved it!
• I gave a training on Tuesday in District Meeting on how to communicate better with our investigators! Thanks to my Major, I was taught well in school and I was able to give a pretty stellar training!!! It’s good to see the last 3 years of my education be put to good
  use!
• We have picked up 3 new investigators so far this week and we are meeting almost all of our goals! It is fabulous!
• Today we had someone come and spray for cockroaches and we are getting our carpets cleaned this afternoon! Let’s just say that I have learned to live in very humble living environments! It is good for me though!
• Make good choices, don’t do drugs, be happy and always remember that I love you!
• LOVE, ME!

Tyson's Final Choir Concert

So- I vividly remember about 13 years ago standing in my laundry room on Lakeview Way crying as I folded Tyson's training pants for the very last time. It was just one of those "Mom" moments when you realize that a tender part of your life has passed.

Thursday night we went to the high school for Tyson's Choir Concert. As "Voices of the Pride" finsihed their last song, Tyson turned to Kelsey Hess and they embraced. That's all it took - my eyes filled with tears and the thought that came to my mind was folding those darn training pants.

A new chapter in life begins. Tyson graduates in two weeks and that means no more high school performances.

It means I'm getting old! And I'm SAD!!!


Tyson looking studly in his performance tux


Tyson and Mr. Walter - the choral director

All of the seniors after the concert

Tyson with best school pals, Ben and Troy.

Nicely Nicely Johnson

I realized I never blogged about Tyson's performance in "Guys and Dolls" Tyson was Nicely Nicely Johnson and he did a fabulous job! His characterization of Nicely was excellent! Anyway, love the suit!

















Nicely Nicely Johnson


















Nicely Nicely and Adelaide (Kelsey Hess)

Tyson at the end of one of his scenes.

Sister Walker Letter Update

Cute Bones!!! Always happy, always looking for the bright side of things! Her hand is healing - although slowly. And... she's going to be on a bike - oh my - more accidents just waiting to happen! (giggle) Here's what she has to say!

Waz up Folks???
I am still livin it up in Paradise with Sister Jernigan!!!! Yup, we made that transfer cut! I am so happy that neither of us got transferred! We are really getting things moving forward here!

We had an AWESOME weekend! On Saturday we left the celestial boundaries of our mission and traveled to the “other side” dun dun dun!!! Kelly’s baptism was fantastic! She was the perfect of all perfect investigators! She will be a Huge asset to this church! We got to meet President McCracken, the mission president of the west side. He is a really friendly man! I was excited to see him at the baptism! He was giving us a hard time and asking us how we felt on the more celestial side of Nevada and of course, I gave him a hard time right back and told him that President Christensen warned me to not be afraid when I crossed over the line and the spirit wasn’t as strong! Haha! They actually have some awesome missionaries over on that side! It as fun to see the other side of the strip… don’t worry, I was never on the strip! However, did get pictures of the back side of the Bellagio and the Rio and some other famous hotels/ casinos. It was like going on a vacation… for 4 hours! It was fun! The members that we got our ride with took us to Café Rio after and it was YUMMY!!!

It is so nice to be back to a normal schedule this week without Savior of the World. We weren’t getting home until 10:50ish almost every night last week and boy we were worn out. It is nice to be asleep again by 10:30!!

I went to the doctor last week for my hand. He says it is looking good and I don’t have a return appointment so that is exciting! It is still about 3-4 weeks behind in the healing process but as long as I take it easy, it will heal just fine!

I bought myself a bike for $20 at DI yesterday. We got our miles cut so we are going to be doing a lot of biking this transfer. I just need to fix it up quite a bit and then it’ll be good to go!

Let see, what else…? We went to the temple this morning so my brain is exhausted! I LOVE the Las Vegas Temple! I saw Sister Little at the temple, she was transferred into our neighboring zone that we do everything with. It will be fun to see her at Zone conference and such too!

So, I didn’t do a bad enough job being senior comp last transfer I guess because I am once again senior comp. Hmmm…. Maybe I’ll have to work on that this transfer. Or maybe I didn’t do a good enough job and President is giving me a second chance. Huh, who knows! I look forward to learning more this transfer! I love learning!

We have some really exciting baptisms coming up! I am super excited for everyone! I love baptisms… they make me smile all over!

Remember that the church is true, make good choices, don’t do drugs, be happy and remember that Heavenly Father loves you and remember that I LOVE YOU!

Love, ME!!!