- What a week! Before I get into that.. I could write a whole email on General Conference! Wasn’t it amazing! And two hour church! What?!
I love President Nelson! I deleted my Facebook and Instagram app for the next days off my phone. I started my personal reading of The Book of Mormon.Monday night President Esquibel came over and set Keagan apart. It was a beautiful blessing and we were all teary eyed. We had Makayla’s Family and my mom and Thom come over and my Aunt Ellen was here, too. (More on her later).One of the hardest parts was to see Makayla and Keagan give their last hug. We sure love her and her family! She has been a good example and good friend to him.Tuesday morning we took Elder Shoop out to breakfast. It was a quiet meal. I was trying to hold it together. As we got closer and closer to the airport, it got harder and harder. My heart physically hurt. But at the same time I was (am) so proud of him and the person he is! That bittersweet word again!At SeaTac airport, up above.Saying goodbye was hard!We watched him walk in line until we couldn’t see him anymore.His plane left at 1:00 and went to Salt Lake where Melissa and Hazel picked him up. He had a good evening with them and even got to watch and listen to some thunder and lightning!The next morning Melissa took him to go visit our good friend Jennie Klumker and out to lunch at his favorite spot.She took lots of pictures for us and sent him off!What a good big sis Melissa is!I made a video of him entering the mtc. I love Melissa’s voice in the background.I gathered myself together after he was “gone” and went out to do some shopping that I needed to get done. I pulled into the parking lot and checked my phone before I went in.. there was a short email from him already. More tears.. had to gather myself together again.
His good friend Landon Oliver is in the MTC right now, going to the Philippines. They’ve know each other since Landon was born! So, Friday morning I was reading Landon’s email before I went to work( thank goodness!) and Elder Oliver says...Wednesday is easily one of my favorite days of the week, it is the day I get to torment newbies. As they walk through the doors, my whole district will usually try to hide spoons in there stuff or shirts, or yell at them in Tagalog. All a lot of fun. But as we were heading to go do studies I got a prompting to get my camera, so we did and we waled over to our room and just as we were leaving I ran almost literally into Elder Shoop, who is on the second floor of our building. It was great.But I didn’t get the picture until that afternoon. (Luckily after work.. haha)So, how cool is that! Our first picture of him with his name badge on is with one of his best friends! What a tender mercy!Well, the other big thing at our house is that we have two roommates. My Aunt Ellen moved in with us in the downstairs bedroom and Kenzie Redding moved in with us into Keagan’s room!My Aunt Ellen is my dad’s younger sister and she lived in southern Oregon. She wants to be closer to my dad especially since his health has declined. And her son lives in Seattle, so she asked if she could live with us for a few months while she finds a job and gets her own place or gets a place with my dad. So, far it has been great. She’s very pleasant! And she’s cooked us dinner a couple of times! I may never want her to move out!Kenz is basically in the same situation. She just graduated from beauty school and needs to save a little and get her feet on the ground.So, last week was a little crazy with them moving in and Keagan leaving, but we’ve really enjoyed their company and I think it will be good.Elder Shoop’s email is keagan.shoop@myldsmail.net if you want to email him. Next week I’ll try to remember his physical address.Love everyone!Sis ShoopAnd I love this picture!
Sunday, October 7, 2018
10.7.18
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