Email from Mom: October 9, 2021
From: Mom
To: Kaitlyn.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2021
Subject: Snow...
Hey! Happy Saturday. How are you? How was your week? Were you able to
sit down with the ward members like you had hoped to work on getting
your 45 friends you are working with fellowshipped and welcomed as new
members? I still just shake my head as my mouth hangs wide open at the
number of 45. That is crazy to me.
I wonder what your day to day looks like most days. I find myself
thinking ‘I wonder what Kaitlyn is up to, I wonder what her weather is, I
wonder if she is happy.’ I feel like when you were in the MBM I kinda
felt like I knew what was going on and what life looked like. Maybe it
was because pictures got added to the drive? Maybe it add because I have
seen back East and kinda have an idea of day to day if someone lived
there? Brazil is just so new in every single way that I find myself just
wondering most days. 
It was low key quiet here at home this week. We watched as the weather
started getting colder and colder. Tyler’s brother is blessing their new
baby Sunday so we decided we would go to that. Brooklyn was not
interested (go figure) so we decided to make a small getaway happen.
Grandma came to stay while Tyler and I took off for Jackson Hole on
Thursday. We have spent the last 3 days in freezing cold weather. Wool
socks, winter boots, puffy coats, and snow on the mountains. It has
rained all day everyday and the snow is heading for home this next week.
It was a good thing we have seen the Tetons because they were covered
by clouds all weekend long! It was still pretty and the cooler weather
was a good reminder to myself that life needs to be checked in on and
changed just like the different seasons we have in life here at home.
We are currently driving from Wyoming to Bear Lake where we will stay
the night. Church is at 9 and then we will head home. I am tired of
riding in a car so it will be nice to get home and not have anywhere we
need to be. I think Monday I have Pilates at 1-2 is all. Other than that
I have a car to clean front the muddy rainy snowy weather we have been
in and out of this weekend. It was nice to get away though just the two
of us. Tyler has been hunting a lot and I feel like we just needed some
time to the two of us to focus on our marriage and to set goals as we
head into the tail end of the year.
The Fall colors this year are definitely showing off here at home as
well as in Wyoming. Our hike that I shared pictures with on the Facebook
was so pretty. And as the wind blew and the leaves fell it just
screamed Fall. Wyoming was just as pretty but you can almost feel the
cold through the pictures I have attached. I’m not ready for snow but it
is coming even if I’m not. I guess I better just get settled into it
and get my wool socks at the ready.
Anyways, I love you. I hope you are happy and I hope that life as you
know it and are living in this moment is fulfilled and creating memories
to last a lifetime. I miss you but I am so proud of you and all you are
doing. I can’t wait for the chance to catch up on another week.
I love you to the moon and back.
Mom
