This is my sister feeding our nephew. Isn't she pretty!?
My sister is my dearest friend besides my husband. She just left on a mission for our church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and I miss her. She left on December 14th and entered the MTC or the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. She will be serving in Santa Rosa, California and will be starting there on January 9th. I can't believe she is actually gone. It's a very strange feeling, in fact, to not be able to contact her whenever I want. I am used to not seeing her all the time as she lived in our hometown of Littleton, Colorado before she left. I was, however, very used to being able to call her all the time and just chat about random things. So that is taking a bit of adjustment time. For those of you who are unfamiliar with our church and how we spread the Gospel, you can go to http://www.lds.org/ and get more info on our missionary program. But to give you a brief idea, missionaries are unable to talk on the phone to their families unless it is Christmas or Mother's Day. We must instead communicate by good old-fashioned snail mail. There are a lucky few that get permission to communicate via email. I have to admit, though, that it is much more fun to receive a letter in the mail than to get an email. You know that the person obviously had to think about you more to sit down write a letter, address and envelope, and stamp and mail it. So that is a part I have enjoyed. My sister is a very courageous girl. She has been through some amazing trials that not many of us will ever have to endure in this lifetime and hopefully we don't. Needless to say, it's been rough for her over the past few years as she has learned to deal with the trauma of seeing what she saw and experienced at Columbine in 1999. She has grown tremendously...in fact; we were both kind of forced to grow up a little faster than most high school students. But she has grown into an extremely driven, proactive, and motivated individual. She has been a great example to me and I'm grateful to her and her decisions. Anyway, I just wanted to tell the world what an amazing and irreplaceable sister I have. So NANNY NANNY BOOBOO!
My sister is my dearest friend besides my husband. She just left on a mission for our church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and I miss her. She left on December 14th and entered the MTC or the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. She will be serving in Santa Rosa, California and will be starting there on January 9th. I can't believe she is actually gone. It's a very strange feeling, in fact, to not be able to contact her whenever I want. I am used to not seeing her all the time as she lived in our hometown of Littleton, Colorado before she left. I was, however, very used to being able to call her all the time and just chat about random things. So that is taking a bit of adjustment time. For those of you who are unfamiliar with our church and how we spread the Gospel, you can go to http://www.lds.org/ and get more info on our missionary program. But to give you a brief idea, missionaries are unable to talk on the phone to their families unless it is Christmas or Mother's Day. We must instead communicate by good old-fashioned snail mail. There are a lucky few that get permission to communicate via email. I have to admit, though, that it is much more fun to receive a letter in the mail than to get an email. You know that the person obviously had to think about you more to sit down write a letter, address and envelope, and stamp and mail it. So that is a part I have enjoyed. My sister is a very courageous girl. She has been through some amazing trials that not many of us will ever have to endure in this lifetime and hopefully we don't. Needless to say, it's been rough for her over the past few years as she has learned to deal with the trauma of seeing what she saw and experienced at Columbine in 1999. She has grown tremendously...in fact; we were both kind of forced to grow up a little faster than most high school students. But she has grown into an extremely driven, proactive, and motivated individual. She has been a great example to me and I'm grateful to her and her decisions. Anyway, I just wanted to tell the world what an amazing and irreplaceable sister I have. So NANNY NANNY BOOBOO!
