Saturday, January 7, 2012
Short post for short emails
Well most of the family got emails this week, but they were all short. It think Laura got the shortest, 2 sentences. Jeff is getting excited to leave the MTC and get to Japan, but he's nervous about flying. He's never flown before and the idea of a 12 hour flight makes him a little nervous. He's doing well, at least from what we could gather from such short emails. He is hoping to be able to call a few times from the airport during his layover. We are looking forward to getting letters next week. He promised to write long letters, we'll see what we get 8)
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Murphy's law in action
Yep, the letter I've been waiting for came today. You know, after I gave up and decided I wasn't going to get it before his email tomorrow, after I sent his weekly package in which I told him if I didn't get a letter soon next week's package would be filled with chicken poop, and after I told him that the package a friend was expecting hadn't arrived (it arrived too by the way). Isn't that just the way of it? If you want someone to call you should eat something or use the restroom, boom! Guaranteed they'll call. Right? Yeah.
OK, so, the crazy story of the week is that President Mills (a former member of our stake presidency who moved away) works for the MTC and is somehow involved with the international MTC's specifically (this wasn't exactly clear to me). So President Mills was at the Provo MTC on the evening of January 1st and he spoke to them about the other 14 MTCs. Afterward Jeff was able to visit with Pres. Mills. Jeff said "it was very cool".
I'm even more grateful for the pics of Elder Mosdell and Elder Brimhall that we received yesterday because Jeff managed to delete all of the photos he had on the card that he was going to send home with the letter, so no more new photos until next week (hopefully he'll send some then). I think I'll send him the photos because I'll bet they were among the ones he lost. =(
Jeff will be leaving the MTC in just over three weeks , in 10 days he will have been out for two months already. Hopefully we got his papers in early enough that there won't be a delay because of his visa or anything like that, apparently another elder was stuck in the MTC for an extra 3 weeks because his visa didn't come through. Current plans are that Jeff will be leaving the MTC on Monday Jan 30th (likely at some crazy early hour) flying to somewhere on the west coast (possibly LA or Seattle) for a layover at which time he will be allowed to call home, from there he will board an international flight and go on to Japan where he will arrive on Tuesday Jan 31st. Japan is 15 hours ahead of us and time zones really mess with my head so I hope this is right. He'll spend the first night in the mission home and be in his apartment Wednesday night. I assume we'll get mailing instructions and an address for him at some point in there or shortly after his arrival.
Finally Jeff was amazed at the figures I sent him concerning the number of blog views we get here, the average per day views and the total views for December, here is a message he asked me to post for you all:
"Howdy everyone!
It's good to know that you're all so supportive of me and my mission. Sadly there aren't many things to talk about yet from the MTC. Hopefully Japan will be far better. 8) Thank you all for writing me over the holidays, if I've not replied yet I promise I'm working on it. I got a little backed up."
OK, so, the crazy story of the week is that President Mills (a former member of our stake presidency who moved away) works for the MTC and is somehow involved with the international MTC's specifically (this wasn't exactly clear to me). So President Mills was at the Provo MTC on the evening of January 1st and he spoke to them about the other 14 MTCs. Afterward Jeff was able to visit with Pres. Mills. Jeff said "it was very cool".
I'm even more grateful for the pics of Elder Mosdell and Elder Brimhall that we received yesterday because Jeff managed to delete all of the photos he had on the card that he was going to send home with the letter, so no more new photos until next week (hopefully he'll send some then). I think I'll send him the photos because I'll bet they were among the ones he lost. =(
Jeff will be leaving the MTC in just over three weeks , in 10 days he will have been out for two months already. Hopefully we got his papers in early enough that there won't be a delay because of his visa or anything like that, apparently another elder was stuck in the MTC for an extra 3 weeks because his visa didn't come through. Current plans are that Jeff will be leaving the MTC on Monday Jan 30th (likely at some crazy early hour) flying to somewhere on the west coast (possibly LA or Seattle) for a layover at which time he will be allowed to call home, from there he will board an international flight and go on to Japan where he will arrive on Tuesday Jan 31st. Japan is 15 hours ahead of us and time zones really mess with my head so I hope this is right. He'll spend the first night in the mission home and be in his apartment Wednesday night. I assume we'll get mailing instructions and an address for him at some point in there or shortly after his arrival.
Finally Jeff was amazed at the figures I sent him concerning the number of blog views we get here, the average per day views and the total views for December, here is a message he asked me to post for you all:
"Howdy everyone!
It's good to know that you're all so supportive of me and my mission. Sadly there aren't many things to talk about yet from the MTC. Hopefully Japan will be far better. 8) Thank you all for writing me over the holidays, if I've not replied yet I promise I'm working on it. I got a little backed up."
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
No mail yet, but good stuff just the same.
Well, the funny thing about expecting mail is I haven't gotten any. I guess that's like a watched pot never boiling or the mother's curse ("Get out of that tree, you'll break your arm!").
On the bright side my super secret spy network (aka Jeff's friends and their parents) have provided some information to fill the void for the first half of this week.
First up we have a little tidbit of info about an injury. From what I understand, Jeff managed to get himself a minor cut and bled on his t-shirt and one of his white dress shirts. At least it didn't sound like anything big, I assume they'd call us if it was a major problem. Anyway, Erin's spot removal advice has hopefully solved the blood stain issue, Thanks E! ♥
Next up was a super nice surprise from Elder Justin Brimhall's parents, a couple of photos of our boys together in the MTC. Justin has left the MTC and is in his first area, Albany GA as of yesterday (Jan 3rd).
On the bright side my super secret spy network (aka Jeff's friends and their parents) have provided some information to fill the void for the first half of this week.
First up we have a little tidbit of info about an injury. From what I understand, Jeff managed to get himself a minor cut and bled on his t-shirt and one of his white dress shirts. At least it didn't sound like anything big, I assume they'd call us if it was a major problem. Anyway, Erin's spot removal advice has hopefully solved the blood stain issue, Thanks E! ♥
Next up was a super nice surprise from Elder Justin Brimhall's parents, a couple of photos of our boys together in the MTC. Justin has left the MTC and is in his first area, Albany GA as of yesterday (Jan 3rd).
Go get em' Elder Brimhall!
By the way, Justin has a blog too - http://eb1g3florida.blogspot.com/
If you know him you should definitely check it out.
And a super HUGE thanks to the Brimhalls for being so truly awesome - Thankyou!
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