Dance Concert

Gabe's Dance concert started on Friday and ends today. How is it...let me explain:

It is LOUD!!!!

Its all this kind of hip hop kind of contemporary dancing - gyrations, whatever. While I can't appreciate the music style I can appreciate the enthusiasm and energy.

Gabe is pretty much front and center on the numbers he is in - he has great stage presence and looks like he genuinely enjoys being up there.

These Castle High School dance concerts are unreal - you go into the school's very beautiful theater, the lights lower, the concert begins and the audience yells and screams throughout the whole thing - every single number. It is wild!!!

Earplugs necessary - for the music AND the audience (most definitely).

From Jacob

He sent the following email with the subject line "Salutations comrad" - go figure...

"heya, so down to business:

My comps name is Elder Jordan Naylor. he is pretty cool/crazy. not sure what to say tho...

we have a lot of investigators at the moment tho. and a baptism planned every week for the next 3 weeks (another we need to set a date for somewhere in there)

everyone in jerome is nuts. nothing changes there.

everyone is getting sick here with the flu. its redonkyulous.

im not really sure what to say, im not that exciting a person.
Oh wait! i was a pirate for halloween and my comp was richard simmons. the other 2 elders we live with went as flavor flav and our zone leader. ill send pics laters =]

i think i am sick because i have a fever and feel dizzy.

love you guys, take care, and thanks for everything!
love,
elder wright

p.s. "...and you ask yourself, where is my mind?" the Pixies
p.p.s. "A steel lock wont protect the contents of a paper chest" -jacob wright"

Home

Came home late Thursday night from a great 7 day church historical site tour. Thoroughly enjoyable. Fantastic weather, beautiful fall leaves, kind people along the way - a totally inspiring trip.

Below is a photo of the first place we visited - John Johnson's farm in Hiram, Ohio. It was here that the Prophet Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon saw a vision and penned these words:

“And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives!

“For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father—

“That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God” (D&C 76:22–24)

I know this really happened and that it happened at John Johnson's farm.

Hi Hannah & Michelle

We arrived in Kirtland, Ohio and saw many things. We went to Jon John Farm which was a place that the Prophet Joseph Smith stayed with his wife Emma and twin babies.
We went to another place where the Prophet lived and many members of the church stayed in 1836. We met a girl there who is serving a mission. Her name is Sister Annie Soliai. She is the cousin of Kastle and Jarom and Manu and Ipo! She gave us a tour of Historic Kirtland Village. She wanted us to sing Aloha Oe for her while she danced hula for the other missionaries. She comes back to Hawaii in 4 days! She is a beautiful hula dancer.

Hope you are fine and being good girls. We are seeing alot of beautiful places. The leaves on the trees are red and yellow and very beautiful.

Remember to be kind always.

Love,
Mom & Dad

Make Sense of THIS One

This is what Jacob emailed this week -

"We have a basketball tourney tomorrow for zone confereance. whic is cool, except that...
People here regard Basketball as the "One true Celestial Sport' pretty much, and its is definately not 'just a game' to them.

I'm not as random as you think i salad.

love, Jacob

p.s. The Fly with a 24 hour life span will live longer than the 200 year old giant clam. (we have to make up our own quotes starting now, thats the rules)
p.p.s. "Laugh until you cry, and Cry until you laugh" -Regina Spektor, 'On the Radio'


Okay, so we have like 4 baptisms coming up which is really cool. We have a saying here, 'Numbers before Salvation'"

Sometimes I wonder...

ALIVE and KICKING!

I have never met a person who is more ALIVE than my Hannah. She is movement, action and adventure jam-packed in a slender athletic body that never seems to stop. You know when she enters a room and when she leaves. You also know every room she's been in by the way it looks when she has left. She's a whirlwind.

She loves to pretend read (although we are immensely proud of the fact she has actually learned to read), LOVES to sing (Sunday riding home from church it was "you cut me open and I keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding...), loves baby dolls (and real babies), loves to swim, and loves hugs and praise.

She is the most forgiving person I have ever known and is always full of hope (her favorite question - "Is tomorrow another day?")

Her constant chatter (mostly to herself) keeps us in stitches.

To Susan, Aunty & Jacob she is "Kawai".

To Dad and Michelle she is "Hannah"

To me she is "hoi-hoi" (which all started cause she calls me "moi-moi')

No matter what you call her though - she is FULL OF LIFE!

If Every Family...

had someone like Michelle in it - home life everywhere would be SUBLIME!

What can you say about someone who is usually happy, smiling, and loving? Evryday when she gets off the bus after school she comes running to me yelling with enthusiasm "MOM! I'm home!" She acts like she's been gone for weeks!

She likes Rubik's cube, babies, pizza, kidney beans, babies, rice, dogs, babies, her Ipod, vanialla ice cream and babies, babies, babies.

She is a good reader and an excellent speller! handwriting - not so much.

She is so very special to us - we feel so priviliged to have her in our home. What a sweetheart!

One thing though - she SNORES REALLY LOUDLY - like THUNDER!

Fathers Be Good To Your Daughters

Fortunately I have a good husband who has been and continues to be good to our daughters. Its easy when they are so special!

That cute little sleeping baby is our Susan! The photo was taken on January 13, 1988 - five days after her birth but the day she was born in our hearts.

Today - almost 22 years later - she is a beautiful girl who is a loving sister and a helpful daughter. She has so many talents - she is good with her hands, very artistic, generous, friendly and fun. If I could have my pick - I'd pick her!

Whenever we need help - all we have to do is call and she makes her best effort to be there.

I pray for her safety and happiness every single day. I worry that she has to drive so far to and from work (she thinks she's a NASCAR contender) but I am proud of her hard-working attitude and determination.

If I could give her one piece of advice today - I couldn't - I'd have to give her two.

1. Remember who you are
2. Don't stay in the sun so much (you'll regret it later)

Tomorrow I will talk about Michelle.