Dear Family,

First of all, we have to thank you for all the gifts you sent with Jordan!  We have been having so much fun with him and the kids love him.  What we didn't expect was a whole table full of presents!  Thank you for all your thoughtful gifts and the many many cards from all the cousins welcoming Jane into the family.  You made our day and made us feel so special and loved, thank you!!!

I know I haven't sent many pictures, but we just had Jane's pictures taken and I just got the link from the friend of ours who took them...so here's the link and the password so all of you aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents can see what a little doll she is :)

http://mtpimages.nextproof.com/galleries/jane

password: 0712

(You'll notice that sadly there aren't any pics of Ammon and Noah with Jane...Ammon was at work and Noah...well, he's just Noah and there was no way he was going to let someone take his picture!)

Love you all so much and we can't wait to see you in November!

Love,
Ammon, Natalie, Noah, Elizabeth, and Jane

Stephen R. Covey's funeral

Dear Family, 

I wanted all of you to know how thankful we are for all of the help you have given us the last couple of days. We are so grateful that we live so close to family and that when we need help you are so quick to respond. I wanted all of you to know about the funeral proceedings. The Funeral will be held this Saturday at 1:00 pm at the UCCU center. It is the main meeting place on the Utah Valley College campus. There will be a viewing the night before from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the Oak Hills Stake Center (925 East North Temple Drive) in Provo. There will also be a viewing at 11:00 am until 12:45 pm at the UCCU center before the funeral. We would love to see you there. Jenny's dad was an amazing man who has touched so many peoples lives. He love him so much and will miss him immensely.  The UCCU center is right off the freeway. Take the University Parkway exit and it is directly to your left. 

Thanks,

Love,  Jason

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

We had a great Valentine's Day and I thought I'd share it with you :)

Even though Elizabeth and Noah have been pretty sick, we made it a pretty fun day...starting out with heart-shaped pancakes with triple berry syrup and even some whipped cream, heart shaped sausage, dyed-red applesauce, and red cranberry juice. I also had a heart table cloth and little Valentine's on their plates for when they came downstairs for breakfast. They were sooooo excited, it was so cute!!!

I had bought them some new washable markers, so we made Valentines for each other and for some friends. I also bought little kits to make your own valentine candy necklaces, so we made necklaces (Elizabeth would put one candy bead on the string and then eat one, so her cany necklace was quite a bit shorter :) We did lots of puzzles, cut out paper hearts, and chased each other around.

We had heart-shaped PBJ and apples for lunch and spahetti with red sauce (and some other non-valentine stuff), but overall, it was a super fun day. I think the kids were pretty pooped by the end of the day and their poor eye infections, congestion, and coughs were majorly acting up by bedtime. But hopefully they'll sleep a little better than they have been after such a busy & fun day :)

It was so cute because while Elizabeth and Noah were taking a bath, Elizabeth pushed him and he bonked his head and was crying (she can be such a bully sometimes!) Anyway, Noah said, "Mom, my heart is all the way empty!" (That's what he says when he's really sad or angry). So, a little later after dinner, he was helping Ammon and I clean up the mess the kids had made in our room and he was in this great "helper" mood. He was doing so great and I kept telling him how happy I was that he was helping and how grateful I was for him. He stopped and said, "Mom, my heart is all the way full!" And he put his hands behind his back (to say that he's more full than even putting his arms straight out...but so full that they're all the way to his back :) I told him that when we help other people and when we're kind, it makes our hearts full of love. So, he runs over and gives me a hug and a kiss on the cheek and says "Happy Valentine's Day!" I love things like that. Noah has one big "full" heart :-)

Hope you liked hearing about our little Valentine's Day and we hope yours was as great as ours!

Love,
Nat, Ammon, Noah, and Elizabeth :-)

P.S. I'm not quite sure how he knows about hearts being full or empty, but I just have to tell you that the first time it came up, Noah came up to me when he was really sad and angry and said, "My heart hurts because it's broken." I was kind of confused and asked if something hurt. He said, "No, my heart is broken because I feel so sad and angry!" Then he went on to say how it was breaking and what we could do to fix it! I was so surprised that I almost started laughing to hear this coming from Noah's mouth and have him be so serious about it! I think he even said something about how his heart might even be bleeding because it was so broken...I mean really, a 4 year old!?!?! We did fix his broken heart and we try to not let it break very often. But my oh my, that Noah is one little tender-heart!

FW: Isaac's e-mail from this week--new address

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:37:56 -0500
Subject: Re: busy...
From: joseph.pitt@myldsmail.net
To: maryepitt@hotmail.com

  Well i got transfered so now i am in a different area. I am in Towson, just right outside Baltimore. I like it, really trashy and bummy.. but hey its sweet. I love the city and all the people. it is just amazing working with all of them and just experiencing everything. Actually today we are going downtown baltimore and checking out a few things. My new address is... 507 Kenilworth Dr. #T4 Towson 21204. i my new companion is good and wants to work hard so we are looking forward to some miricles here in the area.

   Well sounds like everything is going well with the family and some new things have happened. I am sure mir is in love with not having glasses and jack sounds pretty excited. haha Jordan will be alright, the Lord must have something planned, i think that is one thing i have learned here, as long as we are doing all that we can do.. the Lord with direct it like it should be and bless and build you were you need it.

    Welll i have alot of stories from this people cause we are teaching so many people, ha ha but i think there is this one lady that we taught the first day i was here that is really awesome. We went over and talked to her and taught her more about the restoraction and invited her to pray and read... then sunday we were trying to hit our goal of 20 lessons and so we were thinking who we could visit so i called janet up... she said that we could go over. so we went over and taukght a short lesson on faith and read some scriptures. she is so sweet. reading praying, and we have a lesson set up with her this week, with one of the members so we are hopeing that we can't put her on date or something. Problem is that she works on sunday.. so we are working with that. We have alot of poelple but they drink or aren't marrried or are, but there husband is in there country still or... i dont' know alot of stuff but it is fun and we are working hard here. i really couldn't ask for anything better then here. We have an awesome ward mission leader that just loves the work and just got off his mission so he is doing alot for us too. All is going well i hope that the family is all doing alright.! Tell everyone hello for me!

Love,

Elder Pitt

Isaac's last e-mail

From: Joseph Pitt <joseph.pitt@myldsmail.net>
Date: January 9, 2012 1:30:11 PM MST
To: Linda Pitt <pittfamily11@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: ABC's

mom and dad,

    everything is going really well here. just trying to work alittle harder and make sure that we are always doing what we are suppose to be doing. The weather has been perfect here. all of the days this past week we didn't even have to wear jackets cause it was so hot outside. It was really awesome. Well our President hasn't left yet i dont know what it going on with that i know that he is goin to be leaving this week so things will start changing around here soon, but they haven't yet. The branch we have yeah is the smallest, the members are really awesome and i have learned alot of Spanish from them so that is good. They finally started getting excited about the work and we are getting a few people to help us out and everything. so that is exciting. I have right now... 4 companionships in my district. so its not to big, kidda small actually compared to what i have had in the past. This week was a really good teaching week, and we saw alot of good miricles. Our new investagator, is sweet. So we went over to teach her and we talked about the restoration and read from the Book of Mormon. She really  felt the power of the Book of Mormon, and we all were edified by the wonderful Spirit. She committed to a baptism date, and to read. She struggled to say the closing prayer but we didn't give up on it, and she finally said the prayer. It was amazing and i love how when people pray for the first time with you. It is an amazing experience. So then we set up a time to go back and talk to her. We had one of the members go with us, and when we got to her house and began she just smiled and said that she read. So we started going through the part that we left her, and she told us that the other night she was reading and she just felt so good, and that this was true. That it applied so much to her own life, and that she just felt so good. We had our member bear testimony of how the Book of Mormon changed her life. She was a convert so it was a perfect testimony for our investigator. She also opened up to us really well, and told us that she didn't really want to leave all her family that are all catholic, and so she is having a hard time with making that changes and excepting all that we are there to teach her. She doesn't want to make everything a big deal with the family, and her husband. We are just trying to read more and more and increase her faith so that she can have the courage to make the change.
   We had problably 30 mins left for the night and we didn't really know what to do. We had tried by alot of people that day and nobody was home or answering so... we were just thinking of who we could call. Elder Braulio decided to call a person we met out on the street, we answered and said we could pass by. We went over and just started talking to him. He has alot of interest but he is stuck on having just the bible, but really wants to learn more so we are going to pass by this week to talk to him more and help him get into the Book of Mormon more. He has alot of potencial, but alot of questions, he wants like all the answers right now, but i think that he will start progress as soon as we teach him more about the Book of Mormon.
   Our one recent convert moved to California this week to get away from her husband and go live with her family. it was hard for us to see her go since we had worked so much with her, and for me, was my first baptism, but i know that it was the best thing for her to do. She needed a place where she could feel the spirit and progress in the gospel. So we had shared some scriptures and just bore testimonies with her. It was a good experience. Although right now we are having a hard time gettin a hold of her in California. So i don't know what is going on there.
      I know that i need to use the Book of Mormon more in my teaching and learn to use it alot more. I want to be like this missionary that just left. He could tell you everything that happens in every chapter of the Book of Mormon. We quized him on a bunch of things and he know the chapt and sometimes which verses... he was amazing he really did have a good knowledge of the gospel and everything that was in there. Something that has been helping me is memorizing scriptures. it helps alot!  Anyway all is going really well.

       I don't get interviewed that often here... i ahve only been interviewed every 3 months i think. I don't know i think it depends on every mission president. How is everything going, are there things that you have begun to start doing with the missionares like that i dont know what i am trying to get at, but have to got like all you meetings worked out and set in stone and how to work them and everything or is that still in the process. How are both of you doing? Holding up mom, i know that the Lord really does bless you alot and he is always there.

    Ha ha i was thinking of this the other day... you know how i wasn't obidient. like i hated that, and i always kinda wanted to do it my way and that everything would be alright and that i always told you to not worry about it. Ha ha right now, i hate when a missionary is not obident, and right now with my mission president, he is trying to help us increase our obidences so that we can recieve those miricles that are waiting. Cause the Lord has promised and has to bless us when we are doing what we are suppose to do. NOt always in the time we want or the way we want, but he has to bless you. Also there is a scripture in DC i think 58 that talks about how the Lord expects to be obiedient. And that he has created us to make our desicions and to do the right.

    Well that is all for me this week, things are getting better, i still don't think i am teaching very well but that comes with time, and the help of the Lord. Thanks for all you do and keep up the good work!

 Love,

Elder Pitt