bits and pieces

A girl from Trondheim, Nadia is coming to Arizona. She is going to be in Tempe for a week, then to Salt Lake, then back to Tempe and then home to Norway. Mom and Dad gave her our phone number here in Laveen and we are looking forward to meeting her.

Bits and pieces of the emails we have sent back and forth regarding her visit. We'll post any updates about her visit to the Arizona.

1/1/2010
Please give a warm welcome to Nadia Haugen when she calls you.  She is from here in Trondheim and will be in Tempe next Tuesday for a week, then Salt Lake for a week and then back to Arizona for another week.

Nadia was a missionary on temple square but had to come home early.   She had to have her appendix out and then became depressed.  She lost her mother a few years ago and the Christensens in Tempe were the missionary couple here.  They really helped her a lot.    She has your number and will call you.  Hopefully you can get together.  She will be 23 this next year--know any "anxious to marry" men.  She is so excited to go shopping at Wal Mart.  I will send $20 with her and she can buy for me.  She says my wardrobe needs brightening.  Anyway she is looking forward to meeting you.

Dad will send you a picture of her later.

Happy New Year!!

Love,

MOM

1/2/2010

Here is a picture of Nadia Haugen. She is sitting next to mom at the end of the table.  This was part of our new year's eve celebration. Hope you are doing well.

Love,

mom and dad

She was in the video of New Year's eve - Dad mentioned she was coming to the US in 3 days.

1/2/2010

We'll be happy to hear from her and hang out.

-Alison

1/3/2010

If you know any eligible men (she is 23) who would like a date, you may inquire.  Sister Engebretsen is setting her up with one of her cousins while she is in UT.

We just returned from the hospital. Mom had an ear ache most of the night, so we finally went to the emergency room at 6:30 this morning. She has an ear infection in the ear canal, but still had ear drops from the last time, so he told her to take those and it should clear up. They did a blood test and there is no virus.

love,

dad

1/3/2010

Can we set her up - we may have a couple options.

Sorry Mom has an ear infection, but happy it's just an ear infection and nothing more. I'm up at 6:00........I miss 1 o'clock church. :) Not sure how my kids are going to handle being woken up if they don't get up in time. They should, but sometimes they don't and we have a half hour drive ahead of us.

Happy first Sunday of the year. Hope your ear feels better Mom.

Love ya,
Alison and fam

1/3/2010

Sure, you can see what will work when she calls you. I don't know what the couple she is staying with will have planned for her, but she will probably be interested if she has time. She told me today that her best friend in America is setting her up with her husband's friend. He said he dated a girl in his singles ward (don't know where he lives) and on the first date, she lit a cigarette and later asked if he wanted to smoke a "joint" or sniff a little coke.  I think that was their last date.

Hope everyone does good this morning, change to early meeting time can be hard.  We appreciate all that you do with your family.

We had a good church service today. Mom and I taught the English gospel doctrine class. There were 6 investigators, one recent convert, 4 missionaries and Nadia.  The investigators were from Nigeria, Iran, Palestine,The Philippines and Norway.

Mom came home from the doctors and took a nap. She felt better when we went to church (I think just knowing what the problem was gave her a lot of relief.). She played the organ for Sacrament meeting.

love,

dad