April 4, 2026

Dearest Lily and Isaac,

Conference weekend is the best!!

  • Emmy had a water polo game in Springville on Monday.  I love watching her play!
  • I attended 2 online workshops for medical career people this week.  Super fascinating!  I'm feeling a bit discouraged about getting all the work and volunteer hours I need, but grateful for all the resources the advisement center has to help me.
  • I got to have lunch with Joseph twice this week AND he came home for Sunday General Conference
  • Emmy and I did Confirmations at the Taylorsville temple
  • Emmy and I also got to go to Hale to see a new musical called "Hallmarked". It was cute and funny, and I also had a fun small-world moment when I found out that the husband in the couple sitting next to us served his mission in Taichung at the same time as Dad and I!
  • Dad and Emmy left for Taiwan on Thursday
  • It snowed on Thursday ... it was 80 degrees earlier this week...
  • I got to go to an acapella concert Joseph was in! So good!!!
  • I took my last lab midterm and an anatomy lecture midterm on Thursday as well.  I only got a 95% on the lecture exam instead of my usual 97%, but I'm okay with that.  (Haha).  I don't have my score for my lab midterm yet.
  • I loved Conference!  One of my favorite things was the solemn assembly to sustain the new prophet!  I love this gospel and this church!!
  • I've been working on the legos from the basement - taking apart the ones we would never put on display - and getting ready to donate them.  We have bins and bins of them downstairs, and it's time to simplify, but it's being a much larger project than I anticipated.  It's going to take a lot more time than 4 session of Conference...
  • I took Grandma and Joseph out for dinner on Saturday.  It was weird to not have a Saturday evening session, so I went to Provo anyway, I guess. 
You are going to love General Conference!!  It's such a blessing to hear from living prophets and apostles.  I love it so much!

I love you to the moon and back!

Mom


Dad and Emmy are in Taiwan right now...

Church with Sister Wardle!

The Kaufman's might be putting in a driveway area where the pink truck has been parked!  Yay!

Post Acapella concert


Snow!

Hale Theater

Temple!


Emmy's birthday Tres Leche!


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