Updates

Ok. I don't have a camera because we have been using Chases. I will just have to write updates with no pictures until we get a camera. We got Chase off to Brazil on the 28th of October. It was a tough day. I kept asking why something so good felt so terrible! The first two days were pretty hard but it got better after that. I have felt so good about it since then. I was anxious to hear from him. We had been told no emails while in the MTC but I guess that wasn't true. We got an email from him today! It was so exciting. I wasn't expecting it and there it was. He is doing sooo good. He is loving it and his testimony was so good to hear. He love Brazil and the language is coming along...he says he may have it down in two years. The feeling we have had in our home is wonderful. It has only been 9 days and we are already feeling the difference.

Now on to everyone else. Eldon and the girls are gone tonight to Mesa for state. Our volley ball girls made it to state. They worked pretty hard all season with all kinds of things working against them. Their new coach (who is also Makennas excellent 5th grade teacher) has been great and has become a good friend of ours. Shaley is unable to play because she broke her wrist. She broke it a couple weeks ago in practice. She dove for a ball and slid into someones shoe. It is the floater bone (I think that's what it is called) and it doesn't do any good to cast it. She wears a brace and that helps a little. She has a little bit of a stubborn streak in her and was determined to still play..well the pain finally got the best of her so she has been cheering them on from the bench...she has hated that! She is hoping now she will be able to play basketball. The problem is that this injury could take up to 16 weeks to heal. Me and the three younger kids stayed home from state this time. We decided not to take the kids out of school plus Trey and Cale just started basketball this week.