After a long hiatus, I am back...not really, let's be honest, I am horrible at blogging. I will be shutting my personal blog down because I am so bad at this, but I will keep plugging along on Josh's. He'd be pretty upset if I just quit before he makes it a year. Speaking of that...tomorrow will be his 11 month mark, which means, 1 more month and he'll have been gone for 1 year. Speaking for myself, it has been a very quick year. We are blessed that it feels like it's gone so fast. I intend on escorting my parents to Korea in a year to pick Josh up...who knows, we could be in Korea a year from now. The next year will fly!!
Josh is currently a trainer and his first greenie arrived last week (or the week before). He was both excited and nervous. Josh had some wonderful trainers to learn from, and as we all know, he is a born leader, so training will come naturally. He is the happiest he's ever been. I think he's learned to be more adaptable, one thing the 2 of us struggle with. Neither of us really like or welcome change in our lives, but this has required him to modify his thought process. I hope he becomes more adaptable and that he is blessed for learning this trait.
We should be receiving pictures soon, so I will post when I get those. Until then, please continue to pray for Josh.
Stay Classy
Monday, August 10, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Mother's Day
I know, I suck at this...but I do have a good excuse:
Josh's first niece will arrive sometime around October 2nd, and I will be the sister bringing this little girl into the world.
Enough about me!!! :-)
After much drama and pen throwing, we finally got a hold of Josh, in Korea, on Mother's Day. It was great to hear his voice and hear him talk. I miss him. We had many good times and I look forward to many more good times. It's crazy to think that one more Christmas and one more Mother's Day with Josh gone. He says time is flying for him and it seems to be going quite quickly for me, which is a blessing.
I am the worldly sister, so we didn't mission talk it much, I had to catch him up on all the unimportant things going on, but my mom and dad had Josh bear his testimony in Korean. It sounded like a neat experience. Tears were shed (go figure). He is loving it, he loves the Korean people and he loves being a missionary. He is serving faithfully and there is not doubt his life will be forever changed for what he is doing.
He did have the chance to talk to our nephew Bridger, which I'm sure was a major highlight for him! Josh was amazed at the conversation Bridger was able to have. He said he is just like a little person. Bridger has changed so much since he left, so I can only imagine how exciting it was for him to talk to him. He'll have another talking nephew by the time he comes home and a niece who will be 1!! The next year and a half is going to fly.
Josh is really excited to have a niece, when we talked he said he knew it was a girl and he just can't wait to meet her. I have promised to have his picture in her room, so that she knows her uncle by the time he comes home.
Our family has been extremely blessed to have a missionary in our family. We are very blessed to have Josh in our family. He is an example to us all and we look forward to Christmas.
Josh's first niece will arrive sometime around October 2nd, and I will be the sister bringing this little girl into the world.
Enough about me!!! :-)
After much drama and pen throwing, we finally got a hold of Josh, in Korea, on Mother's Day. It was great to hear his voice and hear him talk. I miss him. We had many good times and I look forward to many more good times. It's crazy to think that one more Christmas and one more Mother's Day with Josh gone. He says time is flying for him and it seems to be going quite quickly for me, which is a blessing.
I am the worldly sister, so we didn't mission talk it much, I had to catch him up on all the unimportant things going on, but my mom and dad had Josh bear his testimony in Korean. It sounded like a neat experience. Tears were shed (go figure). He is loving it, he loves the Korean people and he loves being a missionary. He is serving faithfully and there is not doubt his life will be forever changed for what he is doing.
He did have the chance to talk to our nephew Bridger, which I'm sure was a major highlight for him! Josh was amazed at the conversation Bridger was able to have. He said he is just like a little person. Bridger has changed so much since he left, so I can only imagine how exciting it was for him to talk to him. He'll have another talking nephew by the time he comes home and a niece who will be 1!! The next year and a half is going to fly.
Josh is really excited to have a niece, when we talked he said he knew it was a girl and he just can't wait to meet her. I have promised to have his picture in her room, so that she knows her uncle by the time he comes home.
Our family has been extremely blessed to have a missionary in our family. We are very blessed to have Josh in our family. He is an example to us all and we look forward to Christmas.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
An Elder in Korea
Josh is doing fantastic...so his letters and emails report. I hope he really is. He is picking up the language, getting along great with is companion (who is scheduled to be transferred in the upcoming weeks), loving the food, working really hard, teaching several investigators and is still funny and still our Josh. We said good bye to him in 08 and will not see him in 09. 010 (looks weird) will bring him back to us. If time flies like it has, my next post will be his welcome home. :-) (at the rate I post, I am being somewhat serious)
Just a quick note regarding the "return address" labels on the letters you have been receiving...that address is for packages only...do not send letters. Email or call me and I will get you the correct address for letters. A side note regarding letters, he is more likely to actually write you back if you send a letter versus and email. He spends a lot of time reading emails, but has little time to reply via email...so you want to hear from him more often? Write him a good ol' fashioned letter! I'm just sayin'.
Blogger just took 30 minutes to upload some pictures...only it did not actually upload the pictures. Damn thing.
You will just have to check back for the pictures!!
Stay Classy Folks
Just a quick note regarding the "return address" labels on the letters you have been receiving...that address is for packages only...do not send letters. Email or call me and I will get you the correct address for letters. A side note regarding letters, he is more likely to actually write you back if you send a letter versus and email. He spends a lot of time reading emails, but has little time to reply via email...so you want to hear from him more often? Write him a good ol' fashioned letter! I'm just sayin'.
Blogger just took 30 minutes to upload some pictures...only it did not actually upload the pictures. Damn thing.
You will just have to check back for the pictures!!
Stay Classy Folks
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Slacker of a Sister and Dog
"I ate dog yesterday. It wasn't bad, kind of tasted like pork ( sorry jaro and jett)"I had to start off with one of my favorite sentences ever uttered. The picture is just for effect...he didn't actually eat a dog that looked like Jaro and Jett. Actually, I'm not sure he saw the dog prior to ingesting it, so who knows if it was Newf Ribs or Golden Retriever Roast. I think eating dog is asking a lot...to see the dog alive, alive, alive, dead, ingest...a whole other story!
My apologies, I have been slacking on this blog and after being chastised by certain people; I am recommitted to this blog.
In the past month we have received emails from Josh, packages from Josh, Christmas presents from Josh and spoken to Josh (the highlight of the holiday's)!
Josh is LOVING Korea. He loves the Korean people and the food. He sounds just like a missionary. He speaks clearly, softly and slowly. He is still the same Josh and has the same sense of humor (which is my favorite thing about him). I had to catch him up on all the worldly things that I watch, see, listen to and read; specifically The HILLS. The only thing we could say about that was "DRAMA" (in unison)!!
Josh rewrote the words to Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" for a Christmas program they had in Korea. From what I gather, he rewrote it with to be about missionary work and he had the chance to play it on the guitar for his ward, branch, missionaries??? Not sure, but he was really excited about it and will hopefully be recording it and sending it our way. "Nothing Else Matters" is the song of the month per Josh's request.
He has quite a few investigators right now and is expecting some baptisms in the upcoming weeks. He is holding out on a lot of story telling at this point, in order to have things to tell us when he comes home. I will have to bribe him for some stories, otherwise this blog is going to get real boring, real fast (get...isn't it already...)
Again, email me with pictures and stories of Josh...if you think of any.
Stay Classy Friends and Family
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