Letter From the Wrye Family

Dear Family of Elder Child,

 

I wanted to send you an e-mail and tell you what a wonderful, hardworking, dedicated, spiritual young man your Elder Child is.  We first met Elder Child his first day in the mission field.  We were expecting sister missionaries to move in boy were we surprised  :).  Where we live is on the outskirts of our ward and missionaries would rarely travel this direction.  So to have the blessing of missionaries just living a mile and a half down the road we were so excited.    When Elder Child first came to our home it was in the early evening, he and his companion just got here from transfer meeting.  I received a phone call from the zone leaders saying the Elders would come by to our house because they had neglected to give the new missionaries any information to get started.  We fed them dinner while they worked on getting the directory printed out.  Then they quickly ran out to get started before their curfew.

 

Since that day we have learned a lot about Elder Child.  He talks of you all  every time we see him.  He will say things like; “My brother... or my sister...”  And he was really excited to have us e-mail you.  He has a wonderful attitude and sees the bright side of everything he is doing.  He has never once complained to us.  He has worked harder than any missionary I have ever seen out here.  I have seen them biking and walking on all these back roads in the heat and humidity.  I have tried to stop and offer rides for them in the heat of the day, and he has refused.  They explained that they love being out like this that people are seeing them on the street and know that they are around.  And they have had many contacts because people see them out.  I believe this last week with the heat index we were at a temperature of 104*  Elder Child’s response would always be, “This Awesome and I love it!” 

 

My family just loves your son.  He is so kind and loves to laugh, tease, and kid around (we call it “childing”) with us all.  He is very thoughtful and includes all the children when he speaks to us and has even learned to tell my twin boys apart.

 

So I have sent a couple pictures of you son giving our family a message.  I hope your family is doing well.

 

Love, The Wrye Family