new transfer

billy is getting transferred again. my mom just sent a package and seems to be just missing him with each one. she commented to me that she hopes whoever opens it enjoys it. i don't know, but i am sure they transfer them to his next address through the mission office, right? anyway, he sounded good in his latest email. here is a quote from his email, "i cant believe it took you five months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to send me them freaking pictures now i know what blake is talking about!!!! its going to be interesting coming home and seeing anna and avery growed up. i cant believe shes the age of raising an animal it seems just like yesterday when i was trying to get her to quit crying...it never worked. and avery he had those little black boy lips." it is true, he had pretty big lips when he was first born. blake looked at me and said, "those are going to go down, right"? to this day i remind him how shallow he was. here i was thinking my baby was beautiful and he was wondering if he was his.

Mississippi

Billy wrote, "I read your letter again andyou talked about Blake, the farmer, and I pictured him in overalls, a straw hat, and missing teeth. I've been here too long. I asked my companion what was wrong with the people here and he said Mississippi is the poorest, fattest, and dumbest state. Were still laughing about it cuz it's so true. The people are awesome, don't get me wrong. One of our best friends here has no teeth. He's gonna take us fishin." He sounds good.

November update

I got a letter from Billy yesterday. He sounds like he is doing really well. I sent him a box of pomegranates and I wrote on the box, "Whose your favorite sister, now?" I guess he told Sandra that she was because she has sent him the most packages. We haven't received any pictures in a while because his camera card got sucked out by the envelope machine.

Brothers

Blake took these pictures outside the temple the day Billy went through.

MTC September 2008

Billy is doing great. He sounds upbeat in all of his letters. Billy sent me his camera card and I had fun going through is pictures. I got to talk to him before he got on the plane to Alabama and he sounded great. He really likes letters and we have learned that he is quite the little letter writer. I received one letter that just said, "Letters are nice, but packages are better. Proverbs 25:25." He says that his goal is to learn something new everyday. He also said that he couldn't believe how much he didn't know about our Church. We love and miss him.