We are entering the 2nd quarter now...

Well, we are just about a fourth of the way through this journey we are on. In some ways it seems like almost forever, and in others it seems like just a few minutes ago that we said our good byes to Doug and let him go and do the things he has been dreaming of and working toward all of his life.

Yesterday was Mother's Day and we were blessed to be able to actually talk to him on the phone for a few hours. He sounds just like the kid we said goodbye to, and yet there is something that is much deeper that you can sense. And I gotta tell ya, it was really really hard to cut the connection when it was time hang up. That was really hard on all of us. And yes we were all there crowded around the speaker phone. Sister Geri was at home at the other end of the country so she got a call all to herself!

Ahh well, some testimony and a pigeon - what more can we say...and this picture of him at Kossuth Ter Square in Debrecen - the city he left when he transferred.



12 May 2008
hey dad!

it was so fun to talk to you all last night!!! i wish it oculd have been longer and we could do it more often! that was way fun! i can'T wait till christmas!

haha it is hard out here being obedient to the rules when no one is there watching you except for you and the lord... but when i think about it, a lot of missionaries whine about being away from home for 2 years and they count down the days till they can leave, or they do stuff that they say no one will know about, but i always think "they have no diea..." becasue it's not about if people can find out or not, it's about the lord... the mission president doesn'T matter, he's only here to help us progress the work and act as the lord's servant as well in helping the missionaries. we are not serving the misison president, we are serving the lord... it's the lord that will care what we do, and it is up to the lord what is right and not, not the mission president or anything liek that... that is one thing i think about often... the lord is always watching, which is why we always need to be obedient and working our hardest... the misison president can't always be watching us, but the lord can and is!

i GET to be here for 2 years, and i am trying to make the best of it, i just can'T wait till i am like senior companion and sucha nd don'T have to deal with missionaries whining about having like 4 transfers left or just hitting their year mark... my companions haven'T been bad at it, but just others have been and no matter how you look at it, 2 years is 2 years, like you told me before i left, what you put into a misison is what you get out of a misison, and i hold to that!

well, i don't have much to tell this time around becasue not much has happened since yesterday... i did see a pigeon get hit by a car, which was pretty funny... :) the car kind of snuck up on it and it got off the ground too late... it got nailed and kept on flying :) pigeons are so dumb here :)

well, i hope things are going well for you and hope this week is good and will be good!

i love you tons and i will email ya later!!

love ya!
gaufin elder