Email from Mom: Saturday, March 11, 2023

From: Mom
To: Christian.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Saturday, March 11, 2023
Subject: Hello from Cabo

Hey kiddo
How are you? How are things this week? What is new and happening in Dassa? Have you heard anything on transfer news? How the amis? You had a baptism today I believe right? How did that go?

Life here is good. We had a pretty quiet start to the week and then Tyler and I flew to Cabo Wednesday morning. B was going to St George with her friend Lily for the weekend so it worked out perfectly. The sunshine and warm is just what I needed.

I started prepping my skin for warm with the tanning bed before when we were going to go to Hawaii but when that cancelled I just used the rest of my passes. Even the girl at the Starbucks made a comment about how tan I was.  Well, one day in Mexico and I was screwed! I got so fried that all day yesterday we just stayed in the shade where we could find it, I wore a tee shirt and not a tank, and we did what we could to avoid the heat of the sunshine. Poor Tyler has fried himself to the point that he is purple instead of red and the tops of his feet are going to for sure peel. And he wore sunscreen day 1 too! Utah has been so gray and gloomy without sun for what feels like forever that I guess the skin doesn’t know what to think or do. My shoulders will most certainly peel and my entire face too. I didn’t bring any burn to brown so we bought some different aloe and I just hope it will do the trick. We fly home tomorrow morning ao if anything we can start that application tomorrow.

We did some whale watching yesterday (on a boat with a cover) and that was fun. We had 3 whales the whole time that stayed around and one that flapped it’s fin on the water and one that breached a couple of times. I will send some videos to fb for you to watch. It was pretty cool. And it was just me and Tyler on the boat too so it was like our own private tour. Nice to get away to some sunshine and warm and celebrate upcoming birthdays and a 10 year temple marriage anniversary anyways.

B has been in St George with Lily and her family. Her brother had a baseball tournament so she has been down with them. She has loved the warmer weather as well. To say we over snow and cold is an understatement. And there is snow due at home again tonight. I wonder if we will ever see Spring.

Kaitlyn and Eric flew to Texas this morning early to celebrate his grandpas birthday. His grandma is doing a surprise party tonight for him. They will fly home tomorrow. Just a quick trip for them but so glad they were able to make it work and go. What a great thing to celebrate.

This week we will get back to work stuff, life stuff, it’s Eric’s birthday the 14th so we will have him and Kaitlyn for dinner to celebrate, and then keep moving forward with all the things we always add into our calendars. I’m excited to hear about transfers and what is in store for you for the next 6 weeks. Crazy how fast time keeps ticking by I sure love you. I hope you can always feel that from home.

Looking forward to catching up on Monday, even if it’s just messenger. :) Africa sure hasn’t been the easiest for calls that’s for sure. Ha!

I love you. Have the best Sunday.
Mom