January 2, 2003

Thurs. Jan. 2, 2003
Dear Family,
Today we had a phone call from Marie and she indicated that she had received only one of our e-mails and the ones I sent to Sherry and Matt, requesting special things had also not been received. I’m sorry about that. We did receive a nice letter from Marlene and an e-mail from Marie that had 5 photos of her kids that we really enjoyed. Anyway, today I re-sent the e-mails that I assumed had been received, and hope they will get there this time. As with everything else, we are having trouble getting connected up to our own e-mail connection. Now they can’t do anything about it until after New Year’s Holiday (New Years has been going on all this week and won’t be finished until next Monday), so we are trying to be patient and hope that eventually we will get hooked up. In the meantime, Pres. and Sis. Banks have been really good about letting us use their e-mail and printing off any e-mails that come and getting them to us. So much for that.
It sounds like you had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year. Marie said that Matt’s family and Elaine went down to Sherry’s for New Years Eve. That sounded fun. We were supposed to teach an English class last night (New Year’s Eve) and only one person came. I was afraid that was the way it would turn out. So we went up to our apartment and celebrated by making an oatmeal cake and went to bed. Anyway, we hope