Just one more week

I am way excited! Our missionary, Elder Anderson (Justin) comes home one week from today. We are going to pick him up at the airport at 11:06 p.m. Not the greatest hour to take seven children up to Salt Lake and wait at the airport, but I would go at 2:00 a.m. with twenty children if I had to to get my boy! Well, I say boy, but I am sure that I will find a man at the airport. A mission does amazing things to a boy. You send them out all immature and with the best training and teachings of the Gospel as you where able to give them and then letter by letter (or email by email) you see your little boy turning into a man and gaining the greatest testimony of the Savior. Sharing the Gospel with those who do not have it on a daily bases does amazing things to ones testimony.

I am sure that Justin will have a lot of adjusting to do when he is home. He plans on signing up for school and working with Steve. But it will be a huge adjustment for him where for the last two years everything was Gospel centered. I am excited to have him in our home and and I am sure his diligence to the Gospel will rub off on us some. Just having two missionaries out has made us have a stronger desire to live the teachings of the Gospel.

I think when Jared comes home, I will miss having a missionary. I will be thrilled to have them both home...safe and having served honorable missions, but it will be sad in a way too. It has been the greatest experience to read their letters and hear of the people that they are teaching and to feel of their love for them. We have been blessed greatly by giving our sons to the Lord. He has kept them safe and taught them much.

It is very bitter-sweet. It is heart-wrenching to let them go not to have contact with them except through letters and the two phone calls a year....but you feel extremely blessed the whole time they are gone and you don't want the time to ever end....yet you are counting the days until they return. The ultimate in bitter-sweet. I love it!