Saki's birthday is this coming Tuesday, and on the same note we celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary a month ago and I never posted on it...to much to do. Saki is the perfect match for me and I am so glad we can grow older together! Since Saki is a social guy my gift to him was a surprise birthday party with friends from church. While I don't normally like to do such things on Sundays, Saturday was the pinewood derby and Sunday most people were in town. . . We had some friends from church over for cake and ice cream and just talked and talked to all the sweet members we love so much and will miss so much. It was very enjoyable, and they all will miss Saki so much!
Yesterday Saki raced his shark shaped pinewood derby car in the "adult" races after the cub scouts had theirs. It was a fun event, especially since Saki had never made a car before, nice people in the ward let him borrow paint and their tools to carve the car. Mere liked playing with the car-as she still loves fish, and stepped in the paint as Saki was painting, which I still need to clean up :D
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
April 7, 2010
Dear friends and family,
Hope everyone had a great Easter! There's an Easter Pageant (it's a
play depicting Jesus' life, death, and resurrection) at the Mesa
Arizona Temple that we were able to go to a few times, with people
we're teaching. It's really cool. The LDS General Conference was this
past weekend as well, where the living prophet, twelve apostles, and
other church leaders speak - it was awesome!
Today was transfers day, and I stayed in the same area (East Mesa) but
my companion (Elder Oakes) was transferred. My new companion is Elder
McIlrath, from Layton, UT. He is awesome! He just arrived from the
Missionary Training Center yesterday. He's excited to get out and
start working!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Samuel Bradshaw
Hope everyone had a great Easter! There's an Easter Pageant (it's a
play depicting Jesus' life, death, and resurrection) at the Mesa
Arizona Temple that we were able to go to a few times, with people
we're teaching. It's really cool. The LDS General Conference was this
past weekend as well, where the living prophet, twelve apostles, and
other church leaders speak - it was awesome!
Today was transfers day, and I stayed in the same area (East Mesa) but
my companion (Elder Oakes) was transferred. My new companion is Elder
McIlrath, from Layton, UT. He is awesome! He just arrived from the
Missionary Training Center yesterday. He's excited to get out and
start working!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Samuel Bradshaw
Yes I know we need some photos. . .
Our camera's still down, so I need to gather more photos from family to put up here:) So our exciting news is that we're moving to the San Fran bay area before June 1st! We have prayed about it and feel that it is the right thing to do at this time. We had prayed about moving for a long time after Saki lost his job last March, but we hadn't felt like the timing was right until now. We will miss the people of Imperial Valley, especially our friends at church who have been so friendly and kind to us over the last 2 years!
We don't know exactly what city we will be living in yet, as we are still job hunting like crazy and apartment hunting. Filling out applications online has been our past time of late, and after more than a year of it, it's getting very old, but I know something will work out and am grateful we have Saki's wonderful parents willing to help us out if needs be. I am so grateful that the Lord hears and answers our prayers, and Saki and I have been learning that things are meant to happen on the Lord's timetable and not our own.
This is for a "beautiful blogger tag" don't know if this is what you need, but here's 7 things about me:
1. I love going barefoot.
2. I always wished I could be deserted on a tropical island by myself, though now I would want to be there with Saki and after about a week I would miss my kids too :D, and after a couple months I would miss other people too, so I'm a much more social person than I used to be. . .
3. I love trees and ferns and my favorite color is green-my second favorite is black.
4. One of my favorite movies is Newsies.
5. I have a yellow belt in Chun Kuk Do, and almost had a purple belt. So I didn't get far, but I love martial arts!
6. I wish I had more time to read, as I used to be an avid reader-how do those of you with young children do it???
7. Over the past 10 years I have been growing in my appreciation of the Old Testament as I read it off and on with other books of scripture. It had always seemed harsh to me, but as I look at it with new perspectives I can better see and understand God's love for all of His children.
We don't know exactly what city we will be living in yet, as we are still job hunting like crazy and apartment hunting. Filling out applications online has been our past time of late, and after more than a year of it, it's getting very old, but I know something will work out and am grateful we have Saki's wonderful parents willing to help us out if needs be. I am so grateful that the Lord hears and answers our prayers, and Saki and I have been learning that things are meant to happen on the Lord's timetable and not our own.
This is for a "beautiful blogger tag" don't know if this is what you need, but here's 7 things about me:
1. I love going barefoot.
2. I always wished I could be deserted on a tropical island by myself, though now I would want to be there with Saki and after about a week I would miss my kids too :D, and after a couple months I would miss other people too, so I'm a much more social person than I used to be. . .
3. I love trees and ferns and my favorite color is green-my second favorite is black.
4. One of my favorite movies is Newsies.
5. I have a yellow belt in Chun Kuk Do, and almost had a purple belt. So I didn't get far, but I love martial arts!
6. I wish I had more time to read, as I used to be an avid reader-how do those of you with young children do it???
7. Over the past 10 years I have been growing in my appreciation of the Old Testament as I read it off and on with other books of scripture. It had always seemed harsh to me, but as I look at it with new perspectives I can better see and understand God's love for all of His children.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
BULA MATAVUVALE ;)
Today Saki and I got to attend church in the Fijian branch that has just been organized out here in the bay! Saki's parents attend with about 50 other Fijian's. It is one of 2 Fijian branches outside of Fiji! It was very fun for me to sing and listen to lessons in Fijian, reminded me of attending church in France. . . It is nice how the church is organized the same everywhere so you still know what is being taught and the order of everything. I particularly enjoyed the sacrament meeting and relief society meetings. There was a very sweet spirit present.
The kids are getting over their colds and Glenn seems to be ready to sleep better tonight, as he has been waking up the last couple of evenings. He is really getting tall. Mere is a handful, but luckily she is very good at adjusting to change and enjoys staying with new people despite being cooped up a bit. Just wish she would keep her naps and bedtime when we travel, such and energetic little girl. Kristin, she's reminding me of you:)
The kids are getting over their colds and Glenn seems to be ready to sleep better tonight, as he has been waking up the last couple of evenings. He is really getting tall. Mere is a handful, but luckily she is very good at adjusting to change and enjoys staying with new people despite being cooped up a bit. Just wish she would keep her naps and bedtime when we travel, such and energetic little girl. Kristin, she's reminding me of you:)
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