First Letter!!!

October 10th, 2008 - We got your first letter today!!! And as a bonus, we got another one! One from your first day in the MTC, the other on P-day. We waited with great anticipation the first week you were in the mission home, running to the mailbox as soon as the mailman came. Your first letter was full of exciting new things - great companion and roommates, wonderful Presidency, getting used to the facilities you would be using for the next two months, and a schedule of dawn to dusk (and more) learning how to serve the Lord in your new language - Tagalog. You sounded happy, excited, and a little overwhelmed! You were senior companion the first week - not really knowing at that point what that would entail!

Posted are missionary pictures taken before you left - the top one is the one that will be posted for the next two years in the foyer of our church. Bishop Smith beams with pride each time he looks at those 10 or so young men and two older couples serving the Lord from our ward!