Victoria Lynn

Elaine is in Texas with Sarah Jane's family. Russell has about another week to go before his last year of law school starts. This is the semester he will also need to job hunt to obtain gainful employment so SJ may stay home with their daughter & any future children.@ this stage of growth & development. Presently SJ plans to return to work the end of Oct or first part of Nov when her maternity leave from work is over. She hope to work some @ home if they will allow. Victoria is healthy & strong. She has parents who want her in their home, who cherish her.

Wednesday evening Elaine did some kind of face because SJ said to her, "What's wrong mom?" pause, "I miss your dad." In no time flat SJ shows Elain this flix sent via email from Mary @ Washington County Fairgrounds the school buses demolition happens & the first thing I see is Charles truly enjoying the moment. I could hear Mary, Charles & Samuel talking & laughing. Mary was even able to get a glimpse of Samuel, who, by the way, has a pair of new 'cool' glasses for school (he needed his perscription changed anyway)

Elaine remember eigth grade in school to be the 'clickiest' year she ever had when segregation of 'types' of people seemed to matter too much to most students. Her friends from Young Women help her out a lot. That was also the year her dad took her family to live in Missouri after Christmas. She hated it @ first & let every one know it too. But then she didn't hate it at all.

Carolyn has called quite a bit this week. She's trying to make it into UVU still. Her fafsa was sent Priority Mail last week. She missed the June 30th can do it all online deadline the info went snail mail. Carolyn keeps gathering what is needed. She is a Spanish maid in another play not far from Orem. Performances go FS&M evenings thru first part of September.

Emily is all moved into Goodson's. She & Carolyn share the blue bedroom that Carolyn did have all to her self. They each organized their 'stuff'' as Sam would say. Most is under the house in storage boxes well labeled. Emmy is especially helping Grandma Fay this weekend who has a painful back. F Fay will go to the doctor Monday to get it checked out. I thanked her for helping my mom. I think Emmy has a very tender heart.

Mary has a cold from too much fun @ the county fair. She taught in Relief Society. She called me to say,"I made it thru Church" :-> She had both Sat & Sun off w@AnnTaylors. She continues to meet with those who are on the planning commity. Yes, she finally has help to organize & execute the plan for September's Single Adult Conference. She definitely knows the city better than I do now thru her research for the conference. She continues to help Habitat for Humanity in Washington.

Grandpa Wm Dale Goodson went on Facebook! He has such a hard time hearing even with his hearing aids while he's with a group of people that email has been a staple for him. Now he has another means of communication :-}

Elder Urban - 8/3/2009 2:34 PM

Thanks for the letter, and I am still waiting for your homework...

I love hearing what is going on at home.

I am staying in Richfield for the next transfer and will also stay with my companion Elder Nascimento. The work is progressing real well but this time we need to focus on finding more investigators. The school year is starting so we will hopefully find some snow coladge students to teach.

I also drew my own plan of salvation! Its not that bad looking!

Tell mom to stop counting the days, it will drive her nuts and the days will go by real slow. I hope evrything at work is gooing ok. It is prety bad here and people are loosing jobs left and right and are moving because of it.

Charles Urban's Birthday

My birthday was fun. On the Friday before my birthday, July 17, Mary took me to Red Lobster. We had a nice meal. Then, on my birthday, July 18, we went to a nice restaurant called Suzy B's. It is next door to our optometrist, or eye doctor. We had a nice breakfast. Later on I opened presents and your mother and Samuel gave me a Wii. We were supposed to go to Hershey park, because Elaine has free tickets. We did not go yet. We need to go soon.

Well, July 23, 24 and 25 was Samuel's first youth conference. Our stake does not have very many youth. What they have are some good people though. This was Sam's first time to a church dance. I don't know many details. I don't know if he will share any details with me. Here is what I know. The first night was a casual dance. Samuel was eager to get there. The dance seemed interesting. All the people at the dance received a cup full of glow-in-the-dark paint. In light, you couldn't see it very well, but it seemed to be gooey and hard to wash off. The leaders asked all the participants to bring swim goggles. They wore this as eye-protection. Samuel brought his swim goggles. The game was to paint other people. It got messy. They wore these tee-shirts with the letters BTE, meaning be thou an example. With the paint on them, the t-shirt glow in the dark (or black light). I suppose a young man would rather allow a young woman to paint him than to dance with him.

The next night, Friday night, was the formal dance. A girl who was taking pictures of the youth conference was taking pictures of a group of girls. Since Samuel was the first boy to show up, the girl taking pictures asked him to come over. So, there he was sitting in the middle of this group of girls. The girl taking the pictures created a presentation with music to the pictures she took and presented it at the end of the conference.

I don't know much else that happened. I don't think he got any girl's phone number though. But, the parents are the last to know.

I recently had my cholesterol screened. My cholesterol level is good. We have been eating well. I have not been exercising very much. I need to do that. The Wii helps me do some light work.

When we first got the Wii, I was equal to Samuel in many of the games. Now, he beats me in all of them except maybe bowling.

Elaine's sister Geogia Malquist gave me a Target gift certificate. I bought some microwave utensils. One cooks omelets, another cooks bacon and another cooks popcorn. I have used the popcorn cooker several times now.

Charles Urban's Birthday

My birthday was fun. On the Friday before my birthday, July 17, Mary took me to Red Lobster. We had a nice meal. Then, on my birthday, July 18, we went to a nice restaurant called Suzy B's. It is next door to our optometrist, or eye doctor. We had a nice breakfast. Later on I opened presents and your mother and Samuel gave me a Wii. We were supposed to go to Hershey park, because your mother has free tickets. We did not go yet. We need to go soon.

Well, July 23, 24 and 25 was Samuel's first youth conference. Our stake does not have very many youth. What they have are some good people though. This was Sam's first time to a church dance. I don't know many details. I don't know if he will share any details; so far, not so much. Here is what I know. The first night was a casual dance. Samuel was eager to get there. The dance seemed interesting. All the people at the dance received a cup full of glow-in-the-dark paint. In light, you couldn't see it very well, but it seemed to be gooey and hard to wash off. The leaders asked all the participants to bring swim goggles. They wore this as protection. Samuel brought his swim goggles. The game was to paint other people. It got messy. They wore these tee-shirts with the letters BTE, meaning be thou an example. The t-shirt glowed in the dark because of the paint. I suppose it is easier to let a girl paint you than to dance with her.

The next night, Friday night, was the formal dance. A girl who was taking pictures of the youth conference was taking pictures of a group of girls. Since Samuel was the first boy to show up, the girl taking pictures asked him to come over. So, there he was sitting in the middle of this group of girls. At the end of youth conference, this girl that took the pictures created a presentation with music added to the many pictures and this picture with Sam was in it.

I don't know much else that happened. I don't think he got anyone's phone number though. However, the parents are the last to know.

My cholesterol level is good. I got some results recently. We have been eating well. I have not been exercising very much. I need to do that. The Wii helps me do some light work. Early on I was able to beat Sam in some of the Wii sports. But now, he is much better than me in all of them, except maybe bowling.

Elaine's sister, Georgia Malquist gave me a gift certificate to Target. I bought some microwave equipment. One is an omelet cooker; another is a bacon cooker and another is a popcorn cooker. I have used popcorn cooker several times.

Elder Urban - 7/27/2009 3:00 PM

I AM SO SORRY! I did not forget your[Charles Urban's] birthday but I've been so busy and I did not have time and when I did have time I was SO tired and that is not really an excuse well it's not an excuse at all so I am sorry. Your letter should be there shortly.

This month we went from teaching 16 lessons to 30 lessons a week. No baptisms this transfer but we are planning for 5 or 6 next month. I have taught so many lessons it is unbelievable. I think that is what I love so much about this mission. If we are obedient and want to work we will teach lots.

Have fun playing on the Wii. Make sure you are eating right (Whole grain, Fruits and veggies, Nuts ~some nuts actually lower cholesterol~ and Beans to snack on) and getting plenty of exercise(total of 30 minuets or heart pumping action)!

With love,
Elder William C. Urban

Elder Urban - 7/20/2009 2:55 PM

Thanks for all the Emails. I love hearing what all is going on at home.

The past week was real busy.

Thanks again for everything! If you need anything or have some questions feel free.

Love,
Elder William C. Urban

Elder Urban - 7/13/2009 2:05 PM

Thanks for the letters and the Emails. Its awesome that Sam got a free meal because of a shirt that i got him.

We are real busy this transfer. I am learning some valuable lessons like forgiveness, faith, humility, and diligence. This mission is blessing me greatly and I hope it is blessing you guys also