Emails 5-4-09

The Mommy-It is good to hear that you had a good week! Things are going well here in Cali! The weather has cooled down a bit and we have gotten some rain so that was good. We also have the baptism of Ernie, Jesus, this Saturday so that is really exciting! With our lessons we count them to investigators, less-active members and sometimes to active members when we help them set specific dates and names with a follow up to see how they are doing. We use to count lessons at dinners when we shared the lessons or part of one to them. So that is how we count lessons. We have always counted our lessons and we count other things as well. For Daniel he was I guess laid off for a time because it was not "fire season" but now that we are getting back into "fire season" he got the call to go back to work so he is really excited about that. I am a terrible brother. I have Nicole's letter I just have not finished it yet. I also have not finished my letter to Kayce I am not doing so good on writing letters. I am sorry to hear that Abby had difficulties with her pregnancy. I did work with her in the singles ward. She and her husband CJ are good people. CJ was actually one of my first Home Teaching comps when I reactivated. Wow you are getting a new shed. Any reason as to why you decided to get a new shed? Well I do not get out of church until about 4pm here so I am not sure when I should have you all call. We might have to break it into a couple different parts or something. I think 6pm here so 7pm there would work out. So yeah. Well I am excited to hear from you. I will talk with you later. LOVE YOU MOM!Love your son,Elder Brickey

Hola-How are you all doing? Hopefully good. It sounds like things are going wellf or you back in the big UT so that is good. Than of course your kids sound like they are doing awesome. That is fun to hear about all their different personality traits and see the few that I might have had an influence on. Anyways. That is sweet that Dallin likes some of the "old" movies I think is how you put it. Though I do not think that they are very old personally. I do however have a little of a worry about Dallin and the emotional scars that he will have due to wearing pretties. Yes I know that I use to as well and that is how I know these things. No I think that EVERY little boy has to go through that at some point in their life. That is awesome that you got accepted into the PhD program Ryan. CONGRATS! That is cool that you will be staying in Utah for a while now as well. I hope that your graduation is awesome. Well things are going well here. We have a baptism this Saturday and then we have baptism coming up later in the month as well so that is sweet! Things are going really well here in Cali. I love you and am excited to talk to you all on Sunday. Take care and I will talk to you later.Love,Elder Brickey