I love you!

Dear family,

wow!!!!!!

i love you so much~!

do you know that?!?!?!

i hope so!

I thought i'd share quickly the feelings i felt earlier in my personal study... gratitude. I am so grateful to thing of you and the blessing of the restored gospel in our lives together. i can't imagine any longer than 18 months without you--and i thankfully don't have to! we've got eternity :D and i'm the happiest person ever because of that.
i love every moment i had to talk to you. it was absolutely the shortest 40 min of my life. a blink, to be honest. but i know the time will also come quickly when we'll be able to be in the same house again and share all sorts of wonderful things together. like ugly letters, yummy lasagna, dish-washing, kitchen-slaving, giggles galore, and ... lots lots more! hehee

i'm so glad you met the strombergs! please tell me all you can about her homecoming when that rolls around! she rocks, i tell you! i'm glad they brought comfort after a really rough day :( aw, my mommy and daddy.... argh. you are certainly good examples to me!

i know that we all need the power of the Atonement. we need it today, to forgive and to be forgiven. we need it today to change and be a little more like Christ. we need it today to have our burdens lifted and our yoke made light. we need it today to be free and experience the joy of love and peace that accompany the prospect of exaltation with those we love. we need it today to be closer together. we need it today to share with those who are wandering, lost in darkness and pain without it. we need it to heal our yesterdays, make the best of our today, and give us hope for our tomorrows. i know it's real. i know it's possible. i know we have it because of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

i'm so glad you had a great birthday, daddy! we got to go to Br. Teodoro's house to celebrate his birthday with him--on your birthday! you were both born Jan 5! but he's 59 this year :) you've got a ways to go... hehee! i want to send pics, so i'll try to hurry.

Rae, thank you for your sweet email. i'm so happy for your break and for your techno-pump ;) hehee i had no idea you had one of those nifty things! where'd it come from??? haha you are soo good and i just want to give you a big hug and tell you to keep it up! share w me what you can when you can! i love you, sister! do send me the pics if you can!

i won't be able to send all the pictures, but here are a few.

love you! all the best! congrats to aaron on the job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that will be sooo cool for you!

love sis r