This weeks letters to and from our missionary

Elder Hackleman,

How in the world are you?  We are so excited because Jeremy, Sammee and all the family is here visiting. We are going to the zoo today.  Little Jerik is so much fun.  We can't even keep up with all his funny sayings.  

 I was making puffed pancakes for breakfast this morning, after I put them in the oven I jumped into the shower.  In the mean time the pancakes burned and set off the fire alarms.  Now that's a great welcoming way to enjoy guests ha ha.

Our computer was running real slow and seemed to have a virus even though we have run the geek squad system on it over and over.  Jeremy spent about a half an hour cleaning it up and now it is running like a speed car.  Awesome!

I sure love you!

Love 

mom

Elder Hackleman, from Seth. Hey bro! I miss you so much! I hope your having the time of your life! Hey quick question, whatd you do with your ipod? i cant find it haha. football starts on monday (like actual practices) and then we play the monarchs on the 30th. we should be able to beat them this year! we have a good team from what i can tell right now! i'l keep you updated with our season. last week i benched 300! i'm still at 455 for squat sadly but i'm still the highest on the team! one kid got 430 so he's the second highest. hang clean is at 250 now, not the best but im getting better! we have a scrimage coming up so we are getting excited for that! i love you buddy! keep up the hard work!

From Nathan: BRO!!!!!!!! hows Peru? is it like... awesome? So im gonna be starting Z reciever probs and next year im gonna try for starrting varsity reciever so pretty much... I CANT WAIT, gotta go hard this season ;). so uhhhh... nice talkin to ya and have the time of your life!!!!! C ya lates bro!!

From Grant:  Yo Jar what's up dog?  Sure am missing you.  We are going to the zoo today.  The bishop asked us to finish the book of mormon this summer, but I am only in Enos, so I have a long way to go.  Remember that lady that always wore a bandana in her hair and we thought she was sort of crazy.  Well she died from a semi running over her.  So that's pretty crazy.

We are going to the temple for baptisms for the dead with Jaiten and them on Tuesday.  So that will be really cool going with my cousins to the temple.  It is Rykers first time so it will be a good experience for him.  

The one thing I want most when you come back is a dollar of the Peruvian money.

When I went to Hawaii the first thing I did was snorkel.  Then the next day I went paddle boarding, you know the stand up on a surfboard almost and paddle yourself.  That hurt a lot afterwards because it made me sore.  Then we changed to the condo and that felt like it was haunted because the stairs would creek and there were bugs everywhere, but we lived.  I got this really cool ball that Nathan was talking about, you might have seen it.  It's called wobabo ball.  Seth sells them at Bed Bath and Beyond.  So then we went surfing and I got up the first try but I didn't go very far.  So I was a natural.  That's what they called me.  What instructor did you have when you had the surfing lessons.  Because my instructor might have had you.  His name was Pa Ah.  It's short for something I just can't remember.  

We had really good puffed pancakes that mommy made for breakfast.  

So that's about all.  Hope to see you in 1 and 3/4 of years.

Love you Grant

Dear Family,

HAHA! This letter is the best letter ever! It´s so good to hear from all of you! I have no idea where my ipod is seth sorry. haha Yes Nathan Peru is awesome. Z Reciever!!!! That´s what they were changing me to at SVU if I would have stayed! That´s awesome bro! Grantee. You kept up the streak of getting up on the first try surfing! All 4 of us are naturals! I hope you guys are having fun with Jeremy and Sammee and the family. It looks like Mom spells Zerick´s name about as well as Jeremy. It was something different in every one of the letters. Haha 

So I met with President Archibald for our interviews for the first time on friday. It was so awesome. The man is at one with the Spirit I know that for sure. He helped me out a ton on what things I can do to be a better missionary. 

I jinxed myself last week when I told dad all is well with health. I had the worst fever of my life and was bed ridden for like 2 and a half days. I´m on the mend now so its all good. 

I was asked to give a talk 2 weeks ago for what I thought was this week but it was actually for next week because this week is fast sunday. But I totally spaced that fast sunday is fast and testimony meeting so we got to church early and I went to sit up on the stand and sat there until about 2 minutes before the meeting started when I remembered what the clank day it was. It was pretty embarrassing because I could tell the bishopric was getting a good laugh out of it. Haha 

We had 5 investigators in sacrament meeting yesterday. They were are all new to us as missionaries too and we have appointments scheduled to meet and teach every one of them this week. I´m way excited about it because they´re all awesome. Love you guys!!!!! Grant, you may need to start helping mom with the swedish pancake action if you know what I´m sayin, I want to come home to a house, not a piece of rubble. haha Love you all!

Elder Hackleman