I've got nothing for you this week. You guys sounds great! You're going to New York?! send me more pictures. Tommy and Camilla look like they're having fun. Camilla's gorgeous. Tommy looks like a native new yorker. black t shirt and scruff. He looks awesome. They're the coolest people I know. That's so fun Danny and Jack are liking tennis so much! I bet the left hand on the doubles team throws people off. That's great. Go Danny! I can imagine you go down the line off a serve and it makes me excited just thinking about it. Those shots always feel the best. I'ld always miss, so the fact that you are returning those kind of shots against boys in high school is opening my eyes a bit to how good you are at tennis! I guess you're a junior now, so it makes sense. you're awesome. Its weird to be teaching and working so much with the Young Men here, and then remember that Danny and Jack are their same age. It's super fun.
Sam gave a talk in church two Sundays ago. I was so proud of him. We met with him a few times to help him prepare. He gave it on some super long talk by elder cook or elder anderson (they look the same to me) in last July's liahona I think. the one with the family picking wheat. But he shared a personal experience that I loved, and I almost died laughing inside with a straight face.
The weekend before, the pulpit and stage were redone so the bishopric weren't quite sure how to work the pulpit and move it up and down. So Sam gets up and the pulpit is just awkwardly short on him. So he's half leaning on his left arm and trying to get close enough to the mic so we can hear, but it doesn't pick up the sound and he's super nervous and swaying, so he finally just starts speaking with the mic up in his mouth. So #1, I am proud of him for making an awkward situation like that work when he was incredibly nervous. He goes on and starts talking about why he follows commandments, and he specifically starts talking about the Sabbath Day. His parents were going out to eat dinner one day after church and would be gone the rest of the night. As he had commitment to keep the Sabbath Day holy, he chose to stay home. As time went on, he started to get hungry, and realized that he didn't know how to cook food. He, in all seriousness and with a complete look of stress and fear on his face as he relived this experience in his mind, didn't know what he was going to eat for dinner and it was a very serious problem to him. As he was sharing this Sister Robinson and I are trying to show our concern for such a dire situation, but we were shaking with laughter. So, he said, he decided to pray and ask Heavenly Father to help him know how to cook something to eat. So he said a prayer, and as he went to the fridge, the phone rang, and a family from the ward was calling and inviting him over for dinner that night. That family has 3 little kids under the age of 3, so I think it's sweet of them to look out for him. So shared how he gained a testimony of prayer and the importance of keeping Heavenly Father's commandments and that God helps us to obey him. Fun story, huh? Such a good kid. Just such sincere faith and concern, and I shouldn't laugh at things like that. My faith could be a little more like his I think.
Things here are going well. I love you! have a fun week. Send me pictures!
Love hannah
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