Jan. 2014 My Little Missionary

January 8, 2014 FB Post:  My students talk a lot about LDS missions as many are approaching 18. Since Christmas, I’ve thought about how missionaries get to call home and the day tends to revolve around that call. I thought of how much families look forward to the call as well as weekly letters. Every Monday morning Vi’s sitter enthusiastically awaits the emails from her 2 missionary sons. I was feeling sorry for myself and the cruelty of our situation. Gracie has been called to serve her mission and is serving in the ultimate area and (I have no doubt) converting hundreds to the gospel but I don’t get phone calls, letters or pictures. Jeremy expressed he was having similar struggles and even worse. As I drove to work this morning through snow and tears this thought hit me, “You don’t need letters to know Gracie is happy and safe.” As angry as this thought/prompting made me (and would’ve resulted in “unfriending” had it been on FB) it also brought comfort. I need to think better of my reality if I can. I can be every bit as proud of my angel missionary as any missionary Mom. It’s hard that Gracie’s mission will last my lifetime but I will be reunited with her when I am called to serve in her same mission.