HE IS ALIVE

2 hour flight to LAX
a 12:30am call from him

14 hour flight to Hong Kong

2 hour flight to Manila

picked up by his mission president and wife

a home cooked Philippino meal 

a meeting with his mission president

tucked into bed by his mission mom
and off to his zone with his companion in the morning

elder meek has finally made it to Manila.

hes doing well, hes says its hot all the time, and i he already has a baptism! he loves his companion. says he is so happy to have an american and he loves it out there! cant wait to hear more late sunday night early monday morning!

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.

667

missing him already

its only been 11 hours

and i miss him.

more details about the week leading up to today to come.

i just cant bring myself to write about it right now. i have had enough sobbing, crying, runny nose, eyes burning, snot dripping, bawling hysterically for one day.

he's leaving me in four months..

hes leaving on a jet plane.

will be back in two years.

yep my little brother got his mission call today.

we all were thinking he was going to go stateside

though for the last year up until his best friend got his mission call to Germany

i thought he would be going there 

but nope

Elder Wilson Robert Meek is heading to

The Philippines Manila Mission

it really hasnt set in yet

it still weird to think i wont be seeing him for 2 years

it feels like yesterday when i was jealous that i got a little brother

when i would ground him when he was little so i wouldnt have to deal with him

 (im such a nice older sister)

or when people thought we were twins because he looked older than what he was and we were the same height.

or when he could be me up. oh wait. that still happens. haha

but i wouldnt trade any of that in. 

because i think it has made us closer today.

i have told him more things about me than i have told my mom.

he told me about his first kiss.

he always keeps me up to date with my music.

i guess i will be the one that catches him up when he returns.

i will miss this dude.

heres to making the next 5 months, the best 5 months.

because i will miss him.