April 2nd 2010

Happy 21st Dan!

Having fun yet? This is a very serious game after all.

Danny Rocks

Danny got a Presidential Scholarship to SCC!!
lacked about 100 bucks of full tuition

Can i make this blog a brag blog? Humm guess i can

Oso y Earthquakes

Here is a letter from Elder Dan.



Well this week has been good. kind of. we got oso all week. oso means bear, but it´s like getting ditched basically. yeah. this week was not too good. we had to run dario´s fecha, so this change will be sin bautismo, which is fine, but this sector has been baptismless for 4 changes or something wild. so we´re trying. dario is still good though, progressing, so we´ll have a baptism after changes. iris too, but she´s been out of town for a while. so bummer. i bought some classical music last pday, so that is amazing. juan perez, the legit old cop, gave us some ties. he´s a man and a half, and his stories are nuts. but he´s still con viviendo.... so bummmmer for him... it sucks ´cause he wants to be baptized so bad, but in his situation he can´t. his señora receives a pension from her old husband, and she uses it to support her kids, and doesn´t want to marry juan ´cause she´ll lose it. struggles man. i got my carnet, or chilean ID, today. so basically i´m chilean, which is thrilling. umm pig fever? swine flu? what´s that all about. people are quite bothered down here. i hear mexico took a huge hit. in other natural disaster news; there was a minor eathquake. exciting, i know. we´re all anxiously anticipating "the big one". every 5-7 years chile has an eathquake. it´s been 8, and according to the cycle of things, this is supposed to be a giant one. i´m hyped. in other news: i´m 168 lbs. WHAT THE HECK.

love you guys.

dad, temple work is radical.
allison, way to go with maria and school, you rock.
mom, "do you realize that you are a champion in my eyes" - kanye west.
rae, you didn´t write me. but thats ok. keep it legit.
david, david david david david. write me fool. you´re my only brother. i´ve got 2 sisters and 2 parents, but only 1 brother. so write me!

Max

Danny's old friend from Colorado, Max Bastian is serving in the same Mission in Chile than Dan is. he is about3 months ahead of Dan. It is so fun for me to see these two little boys now on their mission together. Max is front and center in black,and then backrow 2nd from left in grey. Dan is far right above and middle middle in purple, below.

I just saw Max's parents Rock and Melanie, at spring training,
the only picture i have of Rock is when he is on the phone. I guess he is kind of like Keith that way. Have you ever noticed how many group shots we have where Keith is on the phone?

By the way, Daniel was transfered to way northern misson today.

Happy Birthday Danny!!

Today is the day!

Happy Birthday Daniel!

(see prior posts please)
march 29th or clic on "almost a fool"( a label at the very bottom of this blog site)

Elder Cutler's Birthday

Danny was born April 2, 1989 in Kirkland Washington.

He had two big sisters at that time.(He still does, plus a younger brother) He didn't have to talk for himself 'til around 3 or 4 years old. Those sisters anticipated and interpreted every noise and gesture.

We moved that very next summer to Sedalia Colorado.

This photo of my curly headed little boy is one of my very favorite of him. He explored every nook and cavern at full speed and then looked back to grunt and gesture his approval to the following Mom.(me, of course)

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Happy 20th Birthday

Elder Daniel Keith Cutler!

in Vina del Mar Chile

Chile and the Elder Dan

All´s well in Casablanca.

This is the last week of the change, which is wild. i´m almost 5 months old.

We had a doctor appointment last monday for e´myers, he got some meds and is doing fine now. me; i´m always fine, so no worries there. one of the recent conversos was really sick these past two weeks, i didn´t teach her or baptize her, but i went by with e´nelson a bunch, so i kinda know her, mirna, her name is. anyway we went by and she was really sick and asked for a blessing, so i figured i outta give it a shot. it was rather rough, but good. so i gave my first blessing! not just anointing, so that´s exciting. she´s doing fine now. she´s like grandma, but chilean hyperactive, so you can kinda get a picture.

Also we got a baptism this saturday, Sara, so that´s exciting. we´re teaching her son too, but he´s been so so but when the mom get baptized he´ll see how it is. he´s getting animated about things, so thats good.

work is going good.

i´m cutting more hair,

we got bikes. the pic is of the good one that my comp rides, mine is ghetto-fabulous, which is just how i like things. they´re way sketchy, but we get around a whole lot quicker. and you can tell from the suit that things are cooling down around here. it´s getting really cold at nights. still burning in the day.

you can tell from the picture of me falling on my bum skateboarding. little kids now flock to us like i´m the pied piper. i´ve figured out a couple magic tricks, and i´ve been working on the handstand skateboard ride to keep um on the edge of their seats. it´s fun. the new missionaries in this sector if i leave are gonna be flogged with pleas for magic and skate. ah well. asi es la misíon love you all. david, keep it real hopefully you get my letter soon.
> tell the watts i send my regards, and paul harvey is a voice i know i respect, that´s too bad.

take care family.

Tuff

All the baptisms went very smoothy, so that was good. i baptized valesca and paloma so that was rad, and the font was working so the water was warm (did i mention that last time? we had to use the hose and it was freezing). but yeah it was awesome. not much time this week, we've got a district activity. and we have changes this week! crazzzy! hopefully i stick around with elder nelson in casablanca, it´s been really solid and we´ve got some investigators who are so close we just need a little more time with them and they can be baptized. it´s crazy to see people learn and grow and gain a testimony. it´s a wild experience for sure. we had once(food) at the Obiesbos yesterday(see picture above) and it was hilarious. He´s a really funny guy. really nice, too. Their family has been warm and very helpful to us.

I Can' Help Myself

A letter from Dan. Dear fam. And dad.

All is well. Work is good, although I got sick on Friday.
It was a bummer. Saturday waking up was horrible. Bad sore throat, sore cabeza, and sore body, runny nose. But what can you do? We went to work.
Sunday was better, but still rough, and today is fine. I´m getting well, don´t sweat mom. I´m taking care of myself. Lucky for me, the lord´s taking care of me too. And the bishop said i´ll be blessed with a beautiful wife cause i´m working through my fever. Hahaha. So that´s golden, right? 3 guesses who it is (dad) hahah, naw jk.

next week we´ve got 3 baptisms with some rad people. Valesca, who is 28 and is a reading machine (she reads everything we tell her and is solid), is doing good. She had some doubts, but through my muddled, drugged up Spanish, I was able to tell her being baptized twice isn´t condemnation, especially if one is valid.

Also we´re teaching Paloma, she´s the daughter of a woman in the ward who´s not baptized cause she´s got some handicap, but she knows right from wrong, and her mom and the bishop say it´s golden, and they want us to do it, so that’s fun. She´s sweet and innocent, but impresses me every day we teach her.

And finally Zoila, who is a 16 year old who has some strange doubts ,but is awesome and honest with us.

In other news, we´re teaching a witch of light who believes the BOM to be true and joseph smith is a prophet, but is worried about being baptized cause she doesn´t want to lose her powers.

We also went to a deaf, less active member´s house on Sunday and she asked for a blessing, she has severe depression and was really struggling, so we gave her one. And it was powerful. Elder nelson is a stallion. Anyway, I anointed her and then we gave the blessing, and while e´nelson was giving it, she just started bawling. It was crazy. The spirit was way strong, and keep in mind she´s deaf. But after that she said she felf much better like a huge weight had been lifted, and we wrote the blessing down for her and left.
Now straying from that spiritual note, I got sprayed with pepper spray, that was wild. Also, we´re wondering if havasupai is destroyed? Any news on that?

Well fam. I love you all. Thanks for the advice about the people dad.
They´re pretty bomb, so i´m glad to be here in Casablanca for sure. Chileans are legit. Also we met a woman who lived in Bronxville for 4 years, and she speaks a little English, so she wanted to talk to us (most people are catholic and not interested at all, like she was) but only about English. Anyway we´ll see where it goes, she had a nice son, and I fell in love with her latin accent. But not with her, don´t worry.

Alright, keep it street family.

PS. Dave you sound dope. write me, fool. No Members Only for you, gotta find your own. try thrift stores.

And also this cruiser is for sale. Want it david?
PPS. I want one of these vans, so i´m gonna bring one home in my pocket.

A Letter from Elder Dan

From: Daniel Cutler [mailto:daniel.keith@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 2:31 PM
To: keith.cutler@cox.net
Subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving!

woooooaah! that michael story is crazy! i need his current address. i've got a couple of letters i want to send him. also if you can get camaron's current address and also alex's that would be awesome. and if there is anyway at all you could think of to get kacie woody's address, i'd love that. thanks for the pictures. send more of the fam please! i'm hearing some crazy stories about prop 8 protests and stuff, what's going on with that?
the washington temple was vandalized? how so? that's stuuupid. i mean, that is no way to dispute a law at all. that's a bummer.
thanksgiving here was good, the meal not so much (the food here is not too awesome. nasty cafeteria food, but i eat a lot and smile. your dinner sounds amazing) but we were fed spiritually very well and also emotionally. last week elder holland came and spoke, that was wayyy amazing. and on thanksgiving we did some service with the head of the lds humanitarian effort dept. that was also awesome.
the password for itunes should be 'bossman' so try that. or 'april1989', i'm pretty sure it's the former though.
i wish i coulda seen the rain! i love arizona monsoons so much. it's weird when i think about that i won't be there for another 23 months, but all is well, i love it here. well as much as one can love the mtc, but i try to take full advantage of everything. we go to a referrral center once or twice a week, where we make and recieve calls, either to inquire about receiving a dvd of bible or bom or something, or confirming reception of said item, and it's awesome to talk to real people instead of missionaries pretending to be investigators.
i've sent a bunch of missionaries out to people to give them the book of morm and we can testify and share scriptures with them and stuff. that's funn. also, my favorite of all: FUTBOL! i've been playing soccer as often as i can and its been so fun. 3 days ago we had 12 on 12 and it was awesome.
it's been really fun to play and kick the ball around, run around outside.
on other gym days (when we have it in the morning and can't go out to the
field) i ride a stationary bike at a window into the sunrise. and that is also the highlight of my life. so awesome.
as far as e-mails, it might be best if you could print them out and mail them due to the limited time i have on here. and about this one, please feel free to share it with whomever. i love you, i miss you, i'm doing great. it's crazzzy here, i can't waaaaaaaait to get out into the field (not for soccer, vina del mar,
;) ) and start speaking spanish for real! speaking of which, it's going well. i love you i gotta go. love, daniel keith elder cutler

Elder Cutler

5:30 this morning...

He left a message for his little brother on the mirror in their bathroom. -set me to crying, again.

Words fail me.

He is now on a plane to the MTC in Provo, Utah.

Now is the time to prepare

Today is the day.

Today is the last day of preparation for Daniel's Mission.

He gets set apart tonight. The Stake President is coming here to our house.

His flight leaves around 7:00 am tomorrow morning.

To find out about the Mormons and what Dan will be telling click on;

http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/

Missionary Farewell!

Danny gave an awesome talk, on the Attributes of Jesus Christ.

We are so proud of him. He has really worked hard and faced some stiff opposition to get here. I know he can do this.

I do Love this boy.

Chile, here he comes!

Wha'z up?

"Hey Mom, What's up"?
(This is how Dan always greets me, especially on my cell phone)
"I'll go shopping with ya if ya want".
A surprising second sentence.

We spent all saturday afternoon at the mall of all places, shopping for white shirts and ties, a mother's dream! We bought two suits, two pair of shoes and several shirts and ties. I think this mission thing is really going to happen.

Agenda for the Past week

• Serious game of Sardines!(friends too, whole house, in the dark)
• Early am Golf 18
• Joe's Real BBQ -Food-pulled pork and baked beans with lemon icebox cake
• Phoenix Art Museum
• Shopping
• Tennis-two hours of doubles against the young couple o' Kellys
• Pei Wei Chinese -Food-Honey seared chicken
• Lifting weights and jogging at the clubhouse
• Gecko Grill-food- fabulous bean dip and Shrimp/Mango quesidillas
• Rent and watch Movies-The Music Man-(yup, we imagined Isaac instead of R. Preston)
• Drive to Rocky Point, Mexico and explore the famous tidepools
• Wally Ball at the club house.
• Grill Brats and Burgers by the pool and play water volley ball. (Ashley, I used "The Pioneer Woman"for a texas sheet cake recipe and it was great.)
• Take the boat out and wakeboard.
• Lunch at (Danny's) Otto's (best pizza ever) in down town Tempe.
• Scenic drive through Payson and Pine
• visit the Biosphere
• Cliff jump and chute slide in the cold water of Slide rock Park
• tour Tallisin West-(Frank Lloyd wright's place)
• lunch on excellent Mexican food in the totally cool Talaquepaque area(who knows how that's spelled?)
• Mesa Temple
• Go to church
• Visit a Vortex(center of earth energy, a Hippy/crystal thing Sedona is full of 'em)and lots of other cool stuff, in Sedona
• Visit Paul and Cathy Davidson-dear old friends from Colorado
• Play Rock Band and Guitar hero
• Open Danny's Mission call!!! and celebrate.

Okay so there are 3 or 4 things on the list that we ended up not doing, (Rocky point,boating) but we wanted too! Anyway, you get the idea.

Like I said,"Ain't We Got Fun!"

Danny got his Mission Call!

Chile,

Viña del Mar !

Ain't We Got Fun!

Every morning, every evening, ain't we got fun!
That is from a very old song- even before my time. I don't know how I know it, but I do.

Ian and Allison Kelly are here visiting from New York city. We swim and eat and play, alot.

We are anxiously awaiting Daniel's Mission call!

Then and now.

Cute boys going to Prom. I wonder where the cute girls are?

Cool men on the way to Prom- notice the viper belt from Quatamala-

This is Maguire Castle in Ireland, Heritage from our Great-great Grandmother Catherine Mequire. "Katie Darlin'" (I don't know that they really called her that, I can just hear it in my head in a heavy Irish brough.)

She married Alonzo Knight. They are my Great great grandparents on my Jones/Eames side.

Danny and Grandma - Nineteen Cupcakes!

Whaaatt?

Mom can't do dishes really, it hurts her arthritic back too much.

Here are some pictures of the nineteen cupcakes we did for Danny's birthday party. He did manage to get quite a bit of frosting on his face and hands. He was inspired by Owen I think. I was just gonna hose him off but he is bigger than me. I didn't want to get wet.

We went for food at a new place Danny picked. Everyone but my Mom had done Mongolian BBQ before ----------------------What are you eating? I don't know.

We opened presents in the parking lot from the trunk of our car. I think Dan liked the bicycle pump David got for him.

DANNY!!

Happy Birthday Daniel Keith Cutler!

19 years old today.

The bottom picture was taken 14 years ago when you were 5 in Uncle David and Aunt Judy's backyard in Lehi, Utah.

The other Picture was taken in Almo, Idaho in Grandpa Jones' front yard.

Notice the sharks on your t-shirt.