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I am replying to this immediately to not forget and to get it done before I get distracted by all of the blogs. I´m sort of joking when I say that, but some weeks the reason I don´t write much is because I am reading a lot of blogs. But I love them so much. I don´t read ALL of them... but if my siblings and nieces and nephews are featured I like to see them. I don´t really know what to tell you, but I don´t want to encourage less bloggage, because with the blogs I am able to save the pictures... when people attach pictures to emails they send me I have to delete them because they are too big for the email service the church lets us use.
I have 1 hour to email, but I have to use 15 minutes of it to email my mission president my weekly report (they just switched to emailed reports instead of handwritten).
I would LOVE to get more snail mail letters with real printed out pictures that I can show people. People love to see pictures and I love to show my family to everyone (and I would love to show my HOUSE if anyone would send me photos of it...)
I will include more details of the work here [in Valencia] and possibly to a comparison to Palma in my family letter that goes to the blog.
Only 45 minutes to read (4-7 posts/emails) and REPLY.
She'd really love real pictures and snail mail. I doubt she's receiving much real mail at all. I'd like to record the dates she is sent snail mail, so we can collectively attempt to send her at least 1 real letter / week.
She enjoys the pictures we send. I propose we each limit ourselves to 1 email or blog/week, so we don't monopolize her precious 45 minutes with the minutia of our lives. One way to easily do this: put your own email address in the "email blog" box, not hers. Then you can decide which post to forward on to Hermana Diehl. We may even be able to delete extra verb-age & pictures, if desired, before forwarding.
If we continue to flood her inbox, the letters she sends will become even more brief.
If it takes only 5 minutes to open and read each email, that's already 20-30 minutes of her 45 minutes gone. I personally would like to savor my letters a bit more than that! What luxury to spend 10-15 minutes reading a snail mail.
Maybe we should alternate weeks... Alyn/Kori/Jesse one week and Cody/Erin the other week... I don't know! That sounds complicated. But it would leave her with 30 minutes to reply, rather than 15.
Any discussion or ideas?
6 comments:
We only had 45 minutes of internet time before. I think he added 15 minutes to do the weekly report. (Just so you know she didn't just lose 15 mnutes)
I don't think everyone is e-mailing every week. I think mom and dad do every week and the rest of us are sporatic. I sent her package last Tues Oct. 27th I think mom mailed hers on Mon or Tues last week as well. I will change the blogs to e-mail to me and only forward on the stuff I think Marti would like. That's a good suggestion. I like the idea of limiting to one e-mail or blog per week per family so she's not overwhelmed. I try to alternate an e-mail then a snail mail so she gets some of each.
We took Marti off our blog email list a couple of weeks ago. We will do like Alyn said and just forward blogs worth reading once in a while. I liked getting emails when I was a missionary but I never had time to read them carefully and then respond. I usually read emails and then completely forgot what they said and never opened them again. Internet time was my time to evaluate the week and give a report to my mission president and my family and that's about all I had time for. Real mail was like gold and I cherished every letter I got, I often re-read letters and looked at pictures several times. I can still quote some of the letters I got from my family, they meant that much to me (I think all of my siblings together wrote me 10 times so it was easy to remember). That is how we have decided to communicate with Hermana Diehl. Also do you think she is worried about getting into too much detail because the letters get published to the internet for all of her past companions and investigators and everyone to see?
Does anyone know if international postage went up too?
According to USPS.com
a letter to Spain
1 oz or less = 0.98
2 oz or less = 1.82
Within the US, it's 0.44
for a letter up to 3.5 oz.
I emailed her previously about her privacy needs, having her blog public or private, and she didn't reply.
As best I've been able to observe,
no one living in Spain or that is unknown has visited this blog yet. Just family & friends.
In fact, it's unlisted. It took Marti's companion, Melanie Grant, some time to find this blog, after returning home.
If someone from Spain starts visiting, I think we'll go private. But for now, I feel making her letters easy accessible is a great thing.
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