Emails from 1/15/08 and a letter

The Mommy-Thank you for the gifts I did recieve them on the 8th so that was nice. The day was kinda boring, I was in Zone Conference from 10 to 4 so that was fun. I did get sung to though. My shoes are doing okay, I have a few scuffs here and there but lasting. I did get my jacket fixed. A lady in the ward use to be head of the alterations for Men's Warehouse, so she did an amazing fix for me. Yeah there are a lot of interesting people up here and some pretty cool things. The history I guess you could say is quite diverse. Elder Nash had a pretty good bday. We actually baptized Jim and Wanda Linsley on his birthday so that was an awesome present. Another cool thing is that we both got birthday cakes, mine from Brie his from his family, and they are the SAME cake, so I guess great minds think alike. Well things are warming up a bit and there is not as much snow on the road, but there is still a lot of snow on the ground. People keep calling us asking if we can shovel things for them, we wish they would not have waited till it had melted and than froze and became hard, but hey it builds good muscles. Well the work is going great, I am getting into the swing of things which is good. We actually have two other people who are committed to baptism on March 1st so that is cool. Well that is about it for now. Take care. Love you.-Elder Brickey

Curley Family-Hey there. Things are going great out here. I was actually in Anderson, South of Redding so about 70 miles away, for my Birthday for Zone Conference. 10 am to 4 pm what a day! I did however get sung to and I did get to say the opening prayer as well. The Bishop and his family fed us that night for my birthday dinner which was awesome cause they made some good food for us. I wish that we had Scott's sleds that would be way awesome and probably make it so we would not do any work. Well I am glad to hear the family is doing well, except for the sickness anyways. I can only imagine how big they both will be when I see them next. Dad sent me an email and it sounded like quite the trip to wyoming, but I did not hear the Bruce almost wrecked the truck, that would have been kinda funny. Good heavens Zack sounds like he is getting into nothing but trouble. I wonder what is going to happen to him kinda, but he has made is own bed I guess. I hope that Grandpa can get whatever figured out so that he does not get the shaft on things, that would suck. Mom and dad are getting along and now sitting on the same couch, wow I am missing a lot of good stuff. It is okay hopefully when I get home they will maybe be holding hands or something like that. I am sending a package to Scott and in it will be a cd with a lot of pictures on it. We did have a baptism actually and we are going to be having another one, hopefully, on March 1st. That would make 4 people while I am here. Other than that I have just been working my tail off trying to make sure that I am doing what the Lord wants me to so I can help those around me. Well I hope things are still going well for you all. Take care of yourselves and stay outta trouble.-Elder Brickey

Letter:
January 10, 2008
Brickey Family-
Hello there family. I just thought I would write a little note to you all. Well I thank you all for the gifts. I am not quite sure who all sent me one so I will just give a broad thank you to you all. I just have one thing to say to you all too. You tease me about being "old" but remember you are all older than me ;p
On a different note. Things are going great out here. On January 12th at 1pm Jim & Wanda Linsley are getting baptized, & two other investigators, their names are Meg & Alison, commited to baptism on March 1st, so things are progressing nicely. It is cool the 12th is Elder Nash's birthday, & if I remember right March 1st is Steve's birthday, so that is pretty cool.
It is crazy to think that I am almost through my second transfer. Elder Nash thinks he will leave & I will stay. But you never know what will happen. Then end of the transfer is Feb 5, so it is still a ways off.
Well I am eventually going to send a box home, when I get to it I don't know. It will have stuff that I don't need right now, or never going to need on the mission.
Well, uh, thats about all I can think of right now. Thanks again & keep me posted on how things are going. Love you all.
-Elder Brickey