Week 14

May 23rd-

I think that might have so we asked the bishop to approve again that I could start my papers and then it worked again. Maybe its being weird because you are on a different computer then the one she started her papers on. Stuart his getting married!?!?!? Thats awesome! Yes please do send me pictures.

Way to go Connor!!! I'm sooooo excited for him! How is Brent doing? Is he staying for long? Yes I got your letter. Thank you so much for writing that all down. I have learned now that I need to write those types of things down. It has some amazing things in there and I forgot about the 3 Nephites. Maybe they are native american?! I will keep my eye out for them and tell you all about it. =)

I can't wait to have some kids of my own... well I guess I can wait. =) When Elder Case says how he can't wait to have kids I always say yes you can. Sorry inside joke. Brother Shumway has 3 boys and a 4th on the way. They are so awesome! The one that is 3 is really attached to me. His name is Jack. Way cool. Can't wait to have a little Tanner running around. Then again that is going to be a little scary. =)

All my scratches are fully healed but my hip is sore again because I wrecked my bike again. Yeah you hear me right. I wrecked my bike again. But it wasn't as bad as getting tazed or sprayed in the face by bear spray. =) Yes I did those too. Funny thing though I was wearing the same pair of pants that I wrecked in last time which is good so I don't have two pairs of torn up pants. I'm wearing them again today so will see if I wreck a 3rd time... Like Dad always says things come in sets of 3. So I will be extra careful on my bike today. Yes I always wear my helmet. I already learned my lesson on wearing my helmet when I was little. Last time my head kind of just scrapped so I was fine but this time I kind of did a front flip so my head didn't even touch the ground at all. I was being careful following Elder Case like 30 feet behind and then a guy said "Hey Elders" and starting walking towards us. So I looked forward again to see if Elder Case stopped... and he did. He was at a dead stop in front of me so I swerved as fast as I could to not plow into the back of him. But I clipped him and once again went flying through the air. But I learned from last time to tuck and role faster to prevent scuffing up my elbows which I did. You could see the marks on both my elbows where they barley touched the ground. Elder Case said I just did a roll and popped up then smiled. I'm getting really good at falling. I guess from falling so much dirt biking and snowboarding I have finally mastered falling. =) Its very useful to learn to fall right. Ask Brother Farr.

Yes I got tazed. A kid we know had one in his car and I have always wanted to get tazed. So I did. I still have burn marks on my ribs both my legs and butt. Yes I got tazed more then once and had to try it on myself. Then bear mace. Another kid we know had bear mace in his car so we decided to shoot it off in the church parking lot. Elder Rae did so and it went to the side. But when I sprayed it the wind shifted and it came back into all 3 of our faces. I couldn't see anything because I was crying so hard was coughing and almost through up. Man did it burn for a long time. I guess you aren't suppose to use bear spray on people... I would rather get tazed instead of getting maced.

We also caught 21 scorpions. I picked one up with my bear hands. We put one on a string and made it our pet. I also found a way to put them in this epoxy. They are floating in it. I will have to send you one. It looks way cool. Then I got 50 pounds of ties. So many good ties in it.

Spiritual wise we got Brother Lawton to come to church!!! Then we are working with the ward council process and getting that up and going and trying to find more investigators. Besides that just trying to work hard everyday. It suppose to start getting hot now. Not looking forward to that. Love you!

~Elder Tanner Dickson