Happy Birthday, Tessa

Dear Tessa,

Whether your hair is long or short, curly or crazy, we love you.  Have a super birthday on Tuesday. 

Hope your week is super too!!  Grandpa says he would like to walk to school with you and your friends.  I miss the fun things there are to do at your home.  Remember the picture you gave us to see if we would notice that your Mom was holding a baby and you were announcing that your family was going to grow from 5 to 6?  And now Macy is soon going to be 2.  Wow,  time passes quickly. 

  

We have a new idea for a school project that would be similar to your catapult.  How did that go, by the way?  Our idea is that you could build an ascensor.  We are including a picture of one for you to see.  Since you enjoy art and piano, we are also including some pictures from Valparaíso.  We noticed that Drew wants to learn about Chile and has a few misconceptions about it.  Since you also would like to be a teacher like your Nana and Tiffany, we thought we could also provide some pictures so that you could teach Drew about Chile.  So here goes:

Tessa is a TEACHER

SS = RS  (Sociedad de Socorro [Soc. Soc.] = Relief  Society)

Whether you are in the United States or in Chile, they always celebrate the founding of the Relief Society around this time.  

mantequilla = butter

pan = bread or rolls

uvas = grapes

pepinos = cucumbers

Grandpa’s favorite cereal = chocolate granola  

We just finished summer and are starting to see leaves begin to fall (otoño) = you are seeing hints of Springtime.  

Tessa likes to play the PIANO

There are some Piano Stairs in Valparaíso on Pasaje (passage) Beethoven which go up to the Lutheran Church (the first Protestant church in South America to be allowed a steeple and bell tower).  

Where we work at the cemetery is on Cerro Panteón.  We can look across to the next cerro (hill) (Cerro Concepción) and see the piano steps and the church.  

To get to that hill, we need to climb stairs or take an ascensor.   

Tessa likes ART

On our walk to the cemetery, many of the electrical poles are painted.  The plaza stop at the top has very pretty mosaic tiles of hearts.   

The prelude music for Sacrament Meeting had the beautiful Primary song that brought the words running through my mind: 

What does the Father ask of us?

What do the scriptures say?

Have faith, have hope, live like His Son

Help others on their way.

What does He ask?

Live like His Son.

You are good at that “help others on their way…”.  Way to go.  We are all trying to do that.  Love you, Tessa.  Love you all.