(on a Tuesday again) A few weeks ago Max got moved back to the big city of Taichung (from a smaller town called Jiayi). It was tough for him to leave that place filled with so many people he loves so much, but he’s off on a new adventure in a new place. This is…
The things that every seasoned missionary parent has told me have come true: the first year passes like molasses. You miss that young man of yours more than you ever thought could be humanly possible. Then, as the long months start to melt away, you start to wonder if there really is a…
Missionary Monday update on a Tuesday… Max’s friends started coming home from missions this summer. Many of them left right after high school (and didn’t do a college semester first like Max did), so it’s been two years. The first two came home when we were in Utah the first time. When we came…
The biggest problem with only getting to email your son once a week while he’s on the other side of the planet, sixteen hours ahead, is that when he happens to have a bad day when he writes one week, worry rolls around in your heart all week. You pray your guts out for him…
A couple weeks ago my oldest child hit his half-way mark on his mission. Yes, he’s been gone a whole year. Half way through all those endless dots that looked so daunting when he left: Let’s get a closer look at that puppy: There we go. That’s a whole lotta dots! Which means…
Shoot, I didn’t mean to let that sad blog post linger at the top of this blog for so long, (thank you so much for all the sweet thoughts sent our way, we really appreciate it), let’s move to something a little happier. I mean, it is December after all. And in eleven days we…
I’m trying to do a “Missionary Monday” every now and then, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually written them on a Monday. Ha! I just want to label them this way so they are easy to find in the future. On Sunday we attended two missionary “homecomings” (where the recently returned missionary speaks in…
Yes it’s late on a Monday, but still Monday 🙂 There’s so much happening in our family right now, and that of course includes Max over on the other side of the world in Taiwan. He has been “training” with his first “on island” companion for twelve weeks, and he got a new companion as…
Ok, so it’s really Tuesday by the time this posts, but as I write it is still Monday evening, and I am sitting here so overwhelmed with love for missionaries. For my own missionary who made it safely to Taiwan and is now paired up with a new “trainer” companion: (not sure what the story…