Lacey wrote:
Dear Elder Kelsey, I am writing this in dreen!!! I hope you made it to Salta okay :) Did you have to take a bus?? That would be not so pleasant.... ha We went on a walk with Allie Egley yesterday and I told her that you had to ride a bus to Salta and she said, "Well, it's better than walking!" haha I guess that is true, it is a blessing that you had transportation right? :) I looked up a bunch of pictures of Salta today, some pictures looked like the pictures my brother sent us from Mexico, like the houses and stuff. But the mountains look very beautiful! I hope and pray that it is a safe place for you to be. What is your house like? remember you promised to wear those shoes in the shower so you don't get diseases ;) Don't break your promise Klay klay :) haha or jaja as you would say ;) So what do you do during the day? you should give me a run down of a day in the life of Elder Kelsey :) Cause I am wondering all the time what you are doing, so it would help to have an idea :) If you are ever wondering what I am doing... just guess that I am home doing something... haha Today I delivered the ice cream for the fundraiser and then when I got home I was bored so I watched some conference talks on marriage!! ha :) and I'm going to tell you about them cause they made me smile :) The first one I watched was by Elder Scott. He is such a sweet man! I could listen to him talk about his wife all day, it is precious. In his talk he talked about the eternal blessings of marriage. He said, "young men, serve a worthy mission. Then make your highest priority finding a worthy eternal companion" So you just remember that :) ha I think you are planning on that already though ;) then later in his talk he told some stories of him and his wife. He said that sometimes he would go to meetings to give a message and when he would open his scriptures he would find "affectionate, supportive notes" that his wife had placed in his scriptures, and then he would do the same thing for her because he knew how much he loved it when he found them. :) Another story he told was about a valentines day, he didn't have the resources to get her a valentine so he painted a watercolor on the fridge for her, but then they found out that it wasn't watercolor, it was something permanent! haha But she loved it so much she never let him try to remove it from the fridge :) The last story he told is that he got a bunch of those hole punch paper circles and wrote 1-100 on them and then a word on each one so that it made a message when you put them together. He thought that she would just get a good laugh out of it, but when she passed away he found all of the circles pasted on a piece of paper, along with all of the other notes and special things he had given her :) aw how sweet. Those things reminded me of you, i just love ya! Like how you would always put sticky notes on my car window!! haha :) or send me sweet texts or write me sweet poems :) oh how I love your poems, please don't ever stop writing them! :) The other talk I read was by Elder Nelson and he said something that I thought was interesting. He said in marriage you are supposed to contemplate together. In latin con means "with" and templum means "a space or place to meditate" which is where the word temple comes from. then he said, "if couples contemplate often with each other in the temple sacred covenants will be better remembered and kept." I thought you would appreciate that cause you are always finding cool things like that, like how oro means gold and i pray, and sacrifacer means to make sacred, and esperar means to wait and to hope. There are so many cool things like that, i wish i knew all of them!! ha I got 2 of your letters yesterday!!!! it was so so exciting!! ha and I really enjoyed the pictures that you drew on them :) How many of mine have you gotten? I've sent 6 I think... you should have gotten 3... but the other ones I sent recently to salta so they shouldn't be there yet. I hope they all get to you!! :) That is so awesome that you got to meet Elder Cook!!! I am very glad that he was able to speak through the spirit to you. I love you, I know that the Lord is watching over and protecting me, I feel his presence in my life. Without him I would be in a lot of pain right now without you, but i'm not. I am so so happy :) Everyday I notice something else that he is blessing me with. Today I was watching this episode about a family who has two little girls and a little boy that all have a heart disease. Their life seemed so hard. Both of their little girls had to have heart transplants at the same time, and even after they got them they knew they would continue to have problems their entire life, they will never be done fighting. It made me so grateful for my health. It's not something you think of every morning, "wow I'm alive!" Ha but we really should! Heavenly Father blesses us every day to be able to be alive and healthy. I'm sure you will see in Salta how blessed we are. My brother used to always tell us on his mission, "our house is a mansion compared to theirs!" and i always thought that was so strange because my house isn't big by any means, but I know that if I could see the rest of the world I would see how truly blessed we really are! So if I ever complain please remind me of that :) I love you a bushel and a peck :) I don't know if that is a real saying but I think I have heard it before, from my grandma or someone :) I hope you are doing extremely well and loving salta, I can't wait to hear from you!
Love, Luchadorcita or Sasey (as bwitwee would say) :)
P.s. I beat your temple run 2 score.. bam :)
Dear Klay, I have prayed and thought long and hard about what I should say to you. I know you are going through a very rough time in your life right now. I have shed a lot of tears this week for you and your family. But I guess what I feel like I should say to you is just that I love you, and I know that everything will be okay. :+) I am using your smiley face because I want you to stay positive. When your family was first trying to get ahold of you, I was hoping they would call me back and say that you were coming home, because it is very hard for me to not be able to comfort you at this time. I want to be there to hold your hand and hug you and cry with you and tell you everything is going to be alright. But I know that you made the right decision to stay there and serve. You are where the Lord needs you to be and you are part of his great and marvelous work. In one of Elder Holland's talks he says, "Don't you quit. you keep walking, you keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. some come late. Some don't come until Heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come." I found that and I really wanted you to read those words! Don't you quit! Please be the stubborn man that I know you are. Never quit serving the lord with all your heart. Some blessings don't come until heaven, and I am so so excited for that first day in heaven when you get to hug your brother again and tell him how much you love him. I know he will be waiting with open arms. He loves you Klay. I know he loves all of you, and he wants the best for you. He is watching over you and smiling down upon you because of the great man that you are and the great things you are doing. I got the opportunity today to go over and visit your family and give them cookies. I don't know if it was good for them, I would like to think that they benefitted from it :+) But I know that I needed it. It was so comforting to go visit with them and hug them. I love them so much. And your mommy let me listen to the voicemail you left. It was so good to hear your voice. Your dad's bishopric also came over while me and my mom were there and they gave your dad a priesthood blessing, Koko gave your mom one, Trevor gave Kierst one, and your dad gave koko one. It was very good for them I believe, priesthood blessings can work miracles. And you, I hope you are being comforted. I am praying like crazy for you and your family. I fasted for you today, a whole 24 hour fast! I have never done that before.. My fasting is usually just skipping breakfast on Sunday, but I wanted to have complete obedience and do a true fast. I have faith that it will bless you. I love you so much, I hope you know that. I am here for you in your times of trouble and your times of happiness, I am always here for you. I am ready to be your strength when you can no longer be strong. When you can no longer stand, kneel. And pray to your heavenly father, he will help you. I got in a car wreck today Klay. I went to the singles ward with my brother and my cousin Dillon. On the way home we were on that road that I always take from Smithfield to Benson and we had the top down on my brother's car. I was in the back and there were some papers on the seat next to me. Then all of the sudden the papers started flying up and we were grabbing for them, and it distracted cole. When he looked back to the road we were at that S curve and he had to turn really sharp. the car over corrected and slid sideways into a fence. We were probably going about 60 and none of us had seat belts on. I don't really remember all of it, but that is what they said happened. I don't tell you this to scare you. I am telling you this to tell you how protected I am. We should have flown out of that car. But we all walked away without a scratch. I know Heavenly Father saved us today. He saved us because He isn't ready for us to come back yet. There must be something we were all meant to do here, and there isn't a doubt in my mind that I need to be here to go to the temple with you to be sealed for time and all eternity. I need to be here to have our babies, that I already love so so much. And when I thought of that I thought of you running into the telephone poll. You should have died, but you were saved for me. And that is very special to me. It has been a very emotional day. It made me realize how precious life is. With your brother, and now this, it is all making me realize that I need to cherish every moment that I have. I love you :+) Please keep working hard, you are where you are supposed to be.
Love, Lacey
Klay wrote:
Hey you there bugga!!!!
I only got half an hour but i think that you should shoot me a text from your phone number so we can have cool live chats like texting!!! haha
Lacey:
Hey you! :)
Are you still there? I'm probably too late :(
I love you! :)
Klay:
My companion is singing behind me IMA TAKE YOU HOME WITH ME BABY GIRL .. .I GOT MONEY IN DA BANK SHORTY WHATCHU THANK IMA BUY YOU A DRANK!! hahaahaha He is a funny kid, I love him. He can talk like an animal and He knows what the heck he is doing. I am so dang lost. But I can do a little bit? haha basically none of this work is me. Its the spirit when i talk or the fact that my compy has smooth word skills. as you can see by the lyrics. My day starts out waking up, praying eating studying proselyting walking eating more studying during siesta, proselyiting walking and then bed time. thats it. . . you arent missing anything. But i do enjoy it here. The trees are awesome. I miss you though little one. These trees would be awesome for building tree forts and stuff. This one we saw covered like fourty square feeeeeeeeeeeet!!! It was absolutely massive!! Um the people are much nicer here than in buenos aires but many are catholic and of course dont practice. But still insiste that it is the best thing that they could be doing with their time. I love preaching though. I am super stressed out over the language. You know me. I just like to know everything in the first two seconds of a new knowledge. You are such an awesome example to me. With all that you are doing holding tight to the gospel and the Savior. It is tough Lou. But when you get questions find them. There are answers in all aspects of this gospel. I had questions before the mission because i am super analytical, but honestly. . well i understand if you arent concerned. But I was haha but God does everything for a reason. Lace i want to let you know something very special about you. You changed me. You support me. And you mean everything to someone. You are very loved by me. You are my hero. If you were hurt in that car accident I honestly, lace I couldnt take it. I cant lose two. i love my brother very much lou. I dont know what to do about it. I can only hope. The Savior and His Angels are much better teacher than I could ever be. I hope that I will be able to teach Him in the life to come with you. Lace, when I think about my family I break down. When I think about my brother I cant speak. When I think about my niece and nephew and Kirst, I am holding tears. You are the only individual save the Savior that comforts me to think about. You are my consuelo. You make it all okay. LuYaGuts bugga.
Hi you wrote back super late silly!!!!!
Lacey:
My phone just sent them to me :( I have been waiting!
Kierst says hi :)
I miss ya :)
I am very upset at my phone right now..
Klay:
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