Email received Jun 14, 2010 (a big one!)

Pics from Red Rock 5-24-10

Welcome to Red Rock

All the Southern Sisters

My Comps, Sis. McCracken and
Sis. Forred (medical missionary)

The View

All of us

Eating lunch (finally)

Terrific trio

What?! Sis. Johnson's getting transferred?!

Giant tortoise - note the sign, I was
glad to be wearing pants

The district I love

Elder Powell

Elders Petersen and Williams

Lovely sisters

Fun in the car

I swear we were parked

I don't even know what those are

Elder Powell

Elders Robison, Mabeza, and Powell

Our Zone

Elders Smith, Powell, Mabeza, Petersen, Sis Knuteson

Zone Conference training on unity (post Elders Petersen and Mabeza and Sister Johnson) - the Zone Leaders joined our district because it was too close for sisters to participate, Sis. Knuteson was bummed about that

Elder Powell

Mission Life
(Sorry, the first two got numbered wrong.)


Elders...what else can I say?



Sisters on bikes. As for the last few seconds...see comment above.



Again, no comment needed.



The other district - they had some difficulties.



Our district - we've already been together one transfer plus we had a few minutes to practice (roughly 2 min 5? sec, if I remember correctly) - my camera chip finally filled up right before the finish line - sad day!! But I believe it was approximately 58 sec. Booyah.

Final addition to the armor of God

I was gonna send a sweet video of the new spider we caught last night, but it's too big. Shapoopie. Life's going well, hope you enjoy all the evidence, there's always more, but some will be better shared in person. Thank you for all the updates and pictures. I love you bunches.

-Spider Catching Master Sis Cloward

Email received May 24, 2010

ohmyflipalipjuicymoma! That is only an approximation of what went through my head as I looked at the pictures you sent, Mother. Sikhs wearing tartans and playing bagpipes - Hallelujah! There's hope for my wedding yet! (Have fun explaining that Mr. Editor's Notes) (Editor's note: That's Miss Editor's Note to you, and, oy vey. The pictures sent were pictures from the Jakarta Highland Gathering that Mom, Amy, and Dad attended in Indonesia. I've inlcuded a picture just for ya'll. As far as Katie's dream wedding, the basic jist of it is that all the women will be wearing sari's and all the men will be wearing kilts. HA! That wasn't so hard.)

Well, we sisters all went to Red Rock this morning (a lovely desert area with colorful rocks.) We didn't go on all the hikes we had intended because we got lost on a one-way road, well the problem really came when the one-way road turned into a two-way road. And due to these circumstance there's not much time left in our p-day and we still haven't gone shopping, so I don't know how long or detailed I'll have time to get. We're also going to see if we can arrange to go back with our district of elders next Mon, so I don't know when I'll have time to write you all the fun details! Maybe if I quit wasting time just blabbing (and drooling over pics.) Okay, I'm running out of time, but truly, thank you for the pictures and updates with all you're doing. I love you!!!!!!!!!

-Sis Cloward

P.S. May I make a couple requests for that box if it hasn't been sent yet? Can you look in my closet for a black skirt (I don't remember how many I have) I believe the brand is Studio 41? I'm wanting some shorter skirts for summer and there's no reason to buy new ones if it's long enough (did you understand that oxymoron?) And maybe my capris, should be in one of the drawers on the left, I believe, unless of course Amy already stole all these clothes, then I'll survive.

Emails received Apr 12, 2010 (pics)

PICS AND VIDS GALORE!!!

The results of Makeover Session #3 - just wanted to show the beautiful, completely accidental color scheme

Garden sign for Mom                Caught...hehehe

(It says "Grow Dammit")

...All my winter gear put to good use...what else can I say?

What we thought was incredible bounty at Thanksgiving...nothing compared to Christmas!

Christmas Eve
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               Look familiar?

(Editor's note: Our van is identical.)

Just a little bit of what the natives call pogonip - it's so pretty (this was taken right outside our apartment looking SE, you can see the jr high straight ahead, the used book store to the right, and behind the little shed on the left is the library)

Twinsies (our car and the Spanish elders' car, sometimes I couldn't tell which one was ours)

We got this puzzle at the Dollar Store 'cuz it was so pretty - it took us an entire month to finish!

Pretty rainbow

Well...that's Fallon

Another great Zone Meeting

The wise man built his house upon the rock

Photographic evidence that sisters can do anything in a skirt (there's also video footage)

The ward had a cake auction to raise money for Boy Scouts, these are some of the highlights

One of our Fallon Zone Leaders went home last transfer, so at the request of his comp, we made him an updated planner. (This is only one page, we did several) (Editor's note: I can't read it very well either, but it looks like 'marriage' is one of the goals.)

The first time I saw these I knew I had to take a pic for Sarah  (Editor's note: Just looking
at it makes me happy. :D )

 Time to change our Jesus. The one on the left is brand new, the middle was in the LR window facing east, and the right was in the bedroom window facing south...don't know how long they'd been there. The funny thing is, I actually prefer the one in the center.

Goodbye Fallon fridge!

Some views of Fallon

The story behind the Meth sign: there are several of these signs throughout the area, one time while driving past this one I suddenly said to Sis K "MATH ATTACKS EVERYONE! ...Math?" I think you know what I was trying to say, but now it's even more hilarious.

Enough pics, I actually had a lot I wanted to say, but it was just so nice to be able to finally send all these pictures! Maybe I'll try to organize my thoughts in a letter.

  -Sis Cloward