May 29, 2012 Letter

Dear Wonderful, beautiful, kind,loving, generous, humble, smart, amazingest mother ever,

 

Hi mom! I am good how are you? I cant believe it was memorial day yesterday either! I feel like time is just going so fast! Where is it going? It is going to be june this week. I cant even believe it. If I really get thinking about things I freak myself out. Not pleasant. So I dont think about time. It makes me nauseous. :) This week has been good. 

Anyways that is so fun about Taylor and Mike! I wish I could have been there to see it. That makes me a little sad. But I am so happy for them! How fun! I love the temple. It is so amazing. Isnt it amazing that we can have our families forever? We have so many great blessings I wish some people would just open their eyes and see it! Im glad Uncle Sheldon and Aunt Nicole are doing good. That is good to hear. How is Dom doing? I cant believe him and Jesse are graduating this year! What the heck?! When did they get that old?! How strange!  I feel old. 

Tyson is so cute! I had the strangest dream last night. I walked over to someones house because there was a huge group of people there and I wanted to see what was going on. Well President Sagers was standing in the pool baptizing people. I just stood there and watched. I had no idea what was going on and people kept talking about a restoration and prophets and joseph smith but I had no idea what they were talking about. All I knew was I had the strongest feeling I needed to be baptized. That I needed to be a part of it. So I ran home to grab Tyson. He was it. He was the only family I had. And I brought him over to show him. He looked around and was like "I dont get it. I dont think I want to do this yet Ky." I was like "thats ok bud." I felt ok with him not wanting to join now because I knew he would join later. All that mattered was that I did it right now. It was the most pressing feeling in the world. I had no idea what I was doing but I didnt care I felt SO strongly that I had to be a part of it.  So I walked downstairs to get to the pool and you and Tosha were sitting on the couch. Tosha had a baby in her arms and yall were talking. You stopped me and asked me who I was. I knew who you were but you werent my family. It was so weird we talked for a second and I walked outside and got baptized.  It was so weird. Tyson was the only family I had in that dream. Isnt that strange? Its sad to think about now. How sad to not have my mom and sister. I would hate that. Anyways thats my weird dream with Tyson. He is just always my little brother. Not even weird dreams can separate that! I love that little boy. I hope he wins today! He would be cute with a mowhawk. THat kid could pull anything off!

Im glad to hear suz is doing ok. Dont dave and JaRelle live in McKays room? She is funny. She is too cute. I cant believe she is going to be a junior! How weird!! She is old.

Well there is nothing too crazy going on over here. We are just working and working and working. Everyone we meet says the same thing, "no thanks we are happy with where we are at." I hate that stupid line. No one seems to realize that they could be happier. They dont really listen and then they just shut the door. Its ok though. We will just keep 

working because I know there is someone here who needs us.

Well mother I love love love you! I think you are the best mother in the whole world. I was thinking about it the other day and there are a lot of women who say they wish they had served missions but I think the best missionary I know is you. You successfully brought 6 souls to Christ (and I bet alot more). What would I do if you had never taught me about the gospel? I was converted to the gospel because my wonderful missionary mother took the time to teach me. You prepared me to make covenants, you helped me learn how to love the Book of Mormon, you taught me to pray, and you taught me what it means to be a true servant of Christ. In my mind you are the best missionary in the world. Thanks mom. I love you tooo much. Thanks for all that you do for me.

 

loves loves hugs and kisses

 

love. sister bailey

May 21, 2012 Letter

Dear Wonderful, amzing, fun, happy, spiritual, uplifting, positive, splendid, best Mom in the whole wide world!

 

Hi mom! I am good. 

Tosha and Eric: I am glad to hear they are doing good! I pray everynight and morning for that little alien life form growing inside of her. Thats good it is the right size. I think that is a good sign isnt it? I will keep praying for it. Also I have been prayin for tosha to be less sick; that is unpleasant to be sick. So I am glad to hear she is doing better. God does answer prayers!!

Dave and JaRelle: Im glad dave is doing good. He sounds busy! He is a hard worker and so smart. Im glad I have that kid as my older brother. Hes a good example. So If JaRelle names her kid Ellie is tosh still gonna name hers Elle? Thats gonna get confusing! One name, two kids that way when they are in trouble we only have to shout once! Hey I wear my underwear now....because I have too! Peyton sounds very cute and like she has good taste. She just needs to make her hair ugly, have snot down her face, snow boots, swimsuit, and a nasty blanket she drags everywhere and she will be as cool as me! Tough shoes to fill. I feel like only my kid is going to be challenged enough to fill my shoes. Sister Reynolds tells me I need to marry a normal person so my kids have a fighting chance. 

McKay: I LOVE THAT KID. It makes me so happy he has a beard because he is in Alaska. That is exactly something only McKay would do. Can you please send me pictures? The other day I was thinking about when we were young and we were convinced we were the twins from Witch Mountain...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I still think we are. I was laughing so hard Sister Reynolds sometimes thinks Im a freak....ok all the time.  She loves me still. 

Lauren: I want pictures of her Prom. And shes not in love. Love is an unknown concept to stupid kids in High school. It makes them do stupid things. and is stupid. and no one is in love til they serve missions. Thats all I have to say about that. Oh and I love her very much!

Tyson: what did he do to his teeth? THat sounds awful! Oh man I hope he is ok!  Tell him good luck for me at his soccer tournament! He is going to  be awesome! He is such a tough, smart, amazing, talented kid! Im jealous of that boy.

 

Well as for me.....oh man what to tell you! We are working hard but if you were to look at  the fruits of our labors you would say we are hardly working. Its annoying but I am not being annoyed or disappointed by it.

Funny story that totally proves Uncle Clive is related to grandma! This week I get a letter from Uncle Clive telling me how he sends newsletters to all the kids on missions from the family and his ward. He told me how sorry he was that I now only had a short amount of time left on my mission and was just getting the first one, but he had absolutely no idea until just last week that I was even on a mission. He ended it by saying they were sending prayers my way now that they are cognizzant of where I am. Did they come to my last talk?! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha oh man I am starting to fear what I will be like when I get older! The genes in our family are a little sketchy! I can just see uncle clive realizing I am on a mission. It made me giggle for days. I am giggling now as I type this. I bet he even sent letters to McKenzie! I am personally offended! If this were church related I would be leaving the church...as it is I cant leave the family! So that was definately one of the funniest things that happened to me this week.

Other super funny thing that happened to us. I found a song for Mrs. T to put in her preschool program. Its super cute and I think everyone would love it! A darling 3 1/2 year old spent dinner singing to us. She sang us the songs she learned at her Methodist preschool among the favorites are Jesus loves all the little cowgirls, and Give your heart to Jesus.

Give your heart to Jesus goes a little like this:

Give your Heart to Jesus

Give your Heart to Jesus

thats what its all about

 

You put your right hand in

you put your right hand out

you put your right hand in

and you shake it all about

You give your heart to Jesus

and you turn yourself around

thats what its all about!

 

Yep that was the song they sang at the preschool program. The Hokey Pokey methodist style!! We were laughing so hard. I thought it might be a good one for Mrs. T to use so I passed it on.

Well I wish I had more cool teaching stories. Our only investigators right now are waiting on a divorce. They are awesome though. THey read every night and come to church. They really want to come unto Christ there is just a slight legal issue in the way. And all the rest of our time is spent finding. THere is no cool story this week. Everyone pretty promptly  shut us down. I feel like I am getting braver and more comfortable with talking to everyone. I feel like that is at least one blessing.

Well madre I love you so so much. I miss you lots and think you are amazing! Let me know if you need anything! I always keep yall in my prayers! I LOVE YOU!!!

 

loves loves kisses hugs

 

love. sister bailey

May 13, 2012 Letter

Dear wonderful, bright, happy, makes me smile, lovely Mother

 

Hi Mom! Man I cant believe we talked just yesterday. That is crazy. I am sad its over already. I feel like it came and went so quickly. As a matter of fact I woke up yesterday and was like "la di da Just another day in the mission life (sung to the tune of Just another day in paradise)" And then half way through getting ready I was like "Oh my goodness I GET TO CALL MY MOM TODAY!!" And then I was super excited but nervous because I KNEW my whole family was going to be ridiculosly trunky. And guess what? they did not pleasantly surprise me. They were super trunky. I was right. Man I know my family. I love yall. It was so much fun to talk to everyone. I hate 40 minutes though. It is so short and there is so much more I want to say. I just want to sit on the phone and ta lk to yall for hours. But I cant. And at least now we get the blessings of obedience! YAY! Those are way better than talking for hours.

Well the only problem is now I have nothing fun to tell you in my email. Oh except remember how I said I like to hide from my companion. I know Im funny. Well one day I was sitting on the bed and I heard her coming out so I quickly throw the covers over my head. She walked into the room and I pulled the covers away from my eyes and creepy watched her. She just sat there brushing her teeth trying to figure out what to wear and she passed by me again. I was like there is no way she hasnt seen me I will just give it up so I throw the covers off my head and really sweetly (seriously sweetly not sarcastically sweetly) say Boo! she jumped super high and punched herself in the face with her  toothbrush!!!!! I laughed so hard. I fell off the bed and was like rolling on the floor laughing. I looked at her and said "really I have hidden under the bed and grabbed your ankles, jumped out of closets, crawled from closets and nothing. Nothing has scared you and then I hide in plain sight under the covers make eye contact with you and sweetly say  Boo and you about pee your pants!!!!!" Does anyone else see a problem with this?
Oh man that was funny. It made me laugh.

I am sad to hear tosha isnt feeling well. After we hung up I felt like a poop face because I could tell she sounded a little down and I didnt ask her how she wsa feeling? Tell her sorry for me. I really was concerned for her welfare. I hope she is ok and I am keeping her in my prayers. I am keeping Grandpa Ralph in my prayers as well. He better get feeling better! Tell McKay he better be there when I get home! Or I will punch him. I guess I will forgive him but I am going to call him that night and keep him up super late talking to him so he is tired when he has to work. Punishment.

Well Mother I love you so so much! I miss you like crazy! Thanks for everything mom you are the bestest. I love you I love you I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

loves loves kisses hugs

 

love. your favorite sister

Linda's May 7, 2012 Letter (hehe!)

JaRelle's insert:


I usually just post Kiley's letters--not ours to her... but this letter from mom made my day! It made Kiley and her companion laugh for quite a while too, so I thought it should be shared. 


Linda took McKay to the airport this morning, and she was worried that she wouldn't get home to write Kiley before Kiley emailed today. So as she is driving home from the airport, she turns on the talk to text (well, email) feature. She gets home and is SO pleased with herself that she tells everyone how cool she is that she drove and wrote a letter to Kiley at the same time. She proceeds to tell us about this cool feature where you speak and it types and sends it for you (Lauren and I are like, "Um mom, this isn't anything new.") She was oober excited about her accomplishment though so we all giggled. When I heard Kiley's response in her email, I scrolled down to read what mom and written and laughed my guts out! I understood more or less since I know everything that has been going on, but Kiley must be thinking mom is on drugs or something! So here is mom's letter; enjoy!




Dear fabulous amazing kylie I'm writing to you while I'm driving home from the airport I just want you to know how amazing I think you are we had a crazy crazy weekend turning on friday night mccain decided to get the car out quietly which means he put it in neutral jacket out of the garage is his foot in the car got away from him and door was going to mass into the garage so he stuck at his arm to stop in and crushed his wrist trouble ligaments ovaries went to the er was in the morning stayed up till 3 got home at 330 so you know not to wake us up funny thing yar broken car needs to be repaired so I got office at it on saturday at 7 happy hours of sleep and running and I had to decorate for the cinco de maya party which was very successful and on top of that lauren had junior prom with my guess lauren and junior prom with my guess she looks beautiful I'm so happy for her the bad part was she took her dress got some done came home early not feeling well so I like when you can I was stephen merchant so sick that's exactly how it sounds I kept rolling in she's out like 2011 passed out she hit her head the voice truffles her because if I skip a song came on an ear of jumping in anyway 1230 she was home on prom night she didn't do so well yesterday went to the sacrament came home and slept all day and still busy how to take her to the doctors this morning I just took makese airport he's off to alaska I'm excited for you I think it will be a great experience which really means we are all doing well we love you so much and miss you can't wait to talk to you next sunday let's make it at that time let us know if you get transferred that will be exciting I think you just a reynolds are doing really well together so you probably won't get transferred how did it go with her companion for the days friend but she opened the gospel okay my love have a great week keep us posted on what's going on with you remember how much we love love love love you just in case is better seems a little screwy understand and I'm dictating it into a microphone which is amazing so amazing also remember that I'm running a very few hours until late friday night I got 3 and saturday night lauren came home sick so give me a break I'm a little brain power okay I love you sweetheart love hugs and kisses take care of yourself oh I'm sure it will write you spin in your car very exciting weekend but I'll let her show everything she needs to share I love you so much honey be good love mom

May 7, 2012 Letter

Dear Wonderful, amazing, funny, not so good at writing letters with a microphone Mother,

 

WHAT THE DEVIL?!?!? Will you please go back and read that email. I have no idea what you said. At one point I was starting to think you might have been on something when you wrote it. Who did what with the car that crushed a wrist and tore ligaments and ovaries? And what happened with Lauren? Did you say something about my broken car? I didnt even know I had one. I am so massively confused! I was going to call you Edith though because that thing spelled my name wrong. I was like "Oh my gosh my mom cant spell my name now?!" Clearly I have been away too long. Ok that was like the funniest letter of my life! You might need to resend all the information to me with a code. Oh man...Sister Reynolds and I just laughed for about 10 minutes. Oh good I got my ab 

workout in. Mother I love you more than life itself. You are wonderful. 

Well I am just going to tell you about my week because I dont know how to respond to that email....I hope everyone is still alive and well because after that email I feel like maybe there was a zombie attack and everyones dead and chaos has ensued...and I  dont know what else. Im uncertain.

Anyways super funny story for the week!!:

So last P-day we had an activity with the zone. We were all told about it and asked to bring a broom. We didnt have one so we brought a mop. We all thought oh cool we are going to play broom hockey or something. Oh no thats not it at all. We get there and the Elder is like "we are going to play missionary quidditch." Oh my gosh if you want to laugh super hard right now please close your eyes and picture this: 8 elders and 2 sisters running around a basketball court with an assortment of brooms, mops, and random sticks between there legs. 2 of the biggest elders have pillows in their hands that they use to beat other players (yep those are the bludgers) The game is basically ultimate frisbee played with a football except for you have to keep one hand on your broom at all times. So here we are all these missionaries running around with brooms in between our legs throwing a football and trying not to have the crap beat out of us with pillows. Well unfortunately the elders are smart and they know not to pass it to me so I really didnt get much "play" time, and my broom was taller than me. So here I am walking around with my broom actually dragging on the floor. I turn to sister Reynolds and Im like "hey sister look Im the sweeper!" I think I am so punny! Seriously I kill myself...sweeper...do you get it? Oh boy why am I so funny? I bet dad laughed. Ok well the really funny part of the story comes now. Sister Reynolds passes the ball to Elder Moore and he misses so he lunges to recover his fumble and in the process lets go of his broom. Well the broom smacks him in the face and I just see spit fly out of his mouth...it was nasty. And then all of a sudden he is touching his face and hes like "oh no...oh no ....oh no." So I am getting a little worried about him but still kinda giggling. And he looks over...yep he chipped his tooth! The best was the phone call to Sister Sagers it went a little like this:

Elder Moore: Hey Sister Sagers this is Elder Moore...I chipped my tooth.

silence

Elder Moore: Well I was running and a broom smacked me in the face.

silence

Elder Moore: Well Sister Sagers the Broom was between my legs.....

 

We were all laughing so hard! Oh man it was pretty funny. He got it fixed super fast. One of the members in his ward was a dentist. We all still laugh about it. It was seriously so funny! Holy cow. Man. too funny. Whew. Is everyone else laughing? Was this only 

funny if you saw it? Im giggling.

Well other news...we really dont have much. We have been tracting a lot lately and just trying to find. Its sorta working out. Tracting is tough in this area. No one is home and if they are they dont want to listen. But its pretty exciting. We still have fun while doing it.

OH I know. We saw a snake the other day! It scared the poop right out of me! Seriously! So we have this creek that we always cross and usually we see turtles there. Well there are two sides to this creek one is over a bridge and it takes us to area A and the other is over some rocks a little further down that takes us into area B. Well we are crossing the rocks into area b and I was like "why dont we ever see turtles down here?" When I look over and there is a turtle sitting on a log down the bank. I exclaim to sister Reynolds "turtle!!" And we head down the bank to look at it. By the time we get down there the turtle is gone. We are both like dang turtle! we missed it. So I am standing there and I look to my right and a little further down the bank I just see this massive snake body. I didnt see its head just the body it was dark brown with some red in it and it was thick! So Im like "holy crap" I hit Sister Reynolds arm and Im like "lets get out of here." So I start booking it down this bank across the rocks and into area b with sister Reynolds right on my heels. I am pretty sure I flashed the world because I was running so fast my skirt was up over my waist but I didnt care I was not about to get eaten! I am pretty sure that turtle was in cahoots with the snake. It lures in the innocent bystander and then the snake eats them! Well not these two servants of God! The whole time we are running Sister Reynolds is like why are we running? I didnt tell her til we were safely on the road and she then looks at me and says " you idiot now we have to cross the rocks again to get to the other area!!!!" Oops I didnt think about that....well we crossed over the rocks safely the second time...yes we did run. Then we walked further down the creek to the bridge. We crossed over it everything was fine and dandy then as we are crossing back over later that day we stopped to look for turtles. There were none. I am pretty sure those turtles are smart, because I look over and Im like "Holy freak sister look at that snake." there was  a different snake hiding in the water. Its head was resting right on this log. It blended in super good. It was black and white and HUGE!! Holy cow I was so scared...so I took a picture of it. It creeps me out! We left and are all safe but we are a little more leery when we cross over that bridge. CREEPY!

Well thats about the craziness for the week! I hope everything is going good for yall...oh yeah I get to call you on sunday!! WOOT WOOT! Ok it will probably be around 6 or  7ish Texas time. How far ahead of yall are we? I dont remember! But look for it then. Im so excited to talk to you! I cannot believe it is already mothers day! Holy cow how did that happen! Time flies. I feel like we just talked for christmas. Oh and did I tell you Sister Reynolds and I are both staying! Woot Woot! We are excited. I think I might die in this area. We will see.

Well mother I love you so much! Til we email again...hopefully I can understand it next time...hahaha. I love you!!!

 

loves loves hugs kisses

 

love. sister bailey