the call

this last monday at 12:30am. i guess early tuesday morning. i got a special phone call. i got to hear a voice of someone that i havent been able to talk to in six weeks. i cant believe its been six weeks since i have heard this voice. its made me happy to be able to talk to him yet so sad to know that i wont hear this voice till mothers day. if you havent figured out who i am talking about, i am talking about my little brother. elder meek. last week my mother sent him a gophone so that this last monday while traveling to the philippines he would be able to talk to us. he sounded great, the 15-20 minutes talking to him felt so short. he asked me if i wanted to hear something in tagalog. of course i said yes and i told him to say what he would say what he was to some random person on the street. it pretty much went like this "blah blah blah.. meek.. blah blah blah christo blah blah blah" yea. i only understood two words. i told him that we are getting used to him being gone but that its hard to be down stairs (his bachelor pad). but other than that we are hangin in there, meaning "we" my parents. we told each other that we love and miss each other and ended it with see you on mothers day. that means we will probably be skyping. since the call, my mother got email from his mission president saying that he has arrived, ate a huge philippino dinner, tucked in bed and would be heading off to his zone area in the morning. we have yet to receive a letter from him, but we all are so very excited to hear what his first days in a different country were like. tell then. you have to wait, like i have to wait.

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