3/30/08

Hey Babby,

It’s another week and another letter. How are things going? I’ll jump into your letters first. The girls did have a good time with Easter. They colored eggs, had Easter egg hunts, got lots of candy, and got to hang with family, so it was an all in all good Easter. I guess you have had your transfers by now, right? What happened? Do you have a new comp. bio sheet for the blog yet? Did I tell you in your last letter that you hit 6,000 visits (number 6,000 was Rick Lambert) pretty impressive following you have. John still does not have an answer, yet he is still hanging in there. So we’ll see what happens there. Oh, I forgot to include Margaret’s account of what happened out there. Here is what she e-mailed me…

Travis, I was in N.C. visiting my motherlast week. Two young elders came by my cousin's house while I was there, and Elder Dees and Elder Robbins. I asked if they knew Elder Alexander and their faces lit up! He is held in high regard by the other missionaries. That made me proud.

I phoned Pres. Hobbs and talked to him, since he is a friend of our daughter Amy back in Twin Falls. I asked if I might phone Michael and he said the brethren had asked family member not to. So I was obedient and didn't phone him. But I sure wanted to.

We are busily preparing for our departure to Nauvoo on April 15th for our Nauvoo Temple Mission. So excited! So much to do!

Love to you all, Aunt Margaret

I’m not sure what to write you this week. I missed work on Friday to be home with a sick Aynslee, and not looking forward to going in tomorrow because things aren’t going so hot for the business right now. There are a lot of bad decisions being made at the top right now and it sucks watching the whole business being run nose first into the ground. But what can you do? I’ll keep you posted on that stuff as it develops.

This week is also our 10 year anniversary. Can you believe that? Crazy! So I’m taking Suzanne up to Midway to the Johnson Mill bed and breakfast. Pretty fancy! I’m pretty excited about it.

We met one of our home teachers today for the first time. His companion was sick, so we haven’t met the other one yet, but it was nice to get him here at least.

Next weekend is conference. You have to be pretty excited about that. You will be home for the next one, eh? Cruisin’ to Priesthood with all of us again and coming home for some pizza or some good eats and breaking down the doctrine and prophetic counsel just taken in. I love it! Can’t wait for this weekend and for your triumphant return before the October session. Looking forward to sustaining Pres. Monson and seeing how the conference sessions turn out as he busts out the Prophetic messages for all of us.

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Translation (as transcribed by Brinlee herself): Dear Mike, I want you to come to my house. Dear Mike, I want you to see me at Elly’s birthday party (Elly is my church girl) Dear Mike, I want you to come to see me to ummmmm… play with me on every night. Dad, you keep writing and I’m going to go watch Dragon Tails.

K, another enlightening letter from Brinlee.

Time to bust out a quote of the week and then sign off for the week. Not a lot of substance to this letter. Hopefully I’ll have more to write about next week.

“There will arise from the performance of missionary duties honor, and glory and exaltation.”

- Lorenzo Snow

I know this is true from personal experience and from everyone around me who served with me, who served around the same time, and all those after me, including yourself. Keep up the good work. It’s the most important work that can be done. We praise those around us who are successful in another field of work that they choose if they are successful in the eyes of the world. But we don’t honor those who are doing the most important work on earth quite enough. So keep it up because as I’m sure you can testify yourself, these things will come as a direct result of your efforts.

I love you and pray for you always. Talk to you soon.

Trav