Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Saying goodbye to a most beloved Grandma


This past week we did a very difficult but a very happy thing - we said goodbye to my Mom. My mother entered the MTC (Missionary Training Center) on Monday. She will be leaving us for 14 months to serve in the Canado Toronto for our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We have known for a while that this moment would come, and yet somehow on that day saying goodbye to a beloved grandmother and mother was much harder than we ever anticipated. Poor E cried for days. At the MTC she would not let Grandma go. R wanted to go with her.
Words cannot began to express how proud we are of our missionary. We are so grateful for the example she has set for her grandchildren. We are so grateful for the way she lives the gospel so completely. Even though it is hard to be apart from mom and grandma we know she is exactly where she should be. We love grandma and mom. We will miss her hugs and help. She always makes each of us feel like we are the very best thing in the whole world.
My mother has called the girls every single of day of their little lives. We will miss her calls. But we know that she has more accomplish right now. Our girls keep saying that they want to be missionaries just like grandma someday.
Grandma, we love and miss you already. But we know that there are families in Canada just waiting for you. So we will share you. We really really love this sweet woman.

"Someday I want to be just like Grandma."
We love you.
Poor E, she literally wouldn't let Grandma go up until the very end. She told me afterwards her heart was broken. But she was going to write to Grandma everyday.

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