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Oh man this post makes me want to start singing this song! 

Will I wait for you?..

Why Wally Kestler you ought to be

Ashamed of yourself

I've given you the best years of my life

I've stood here through it all

Through short and fat and tall

Through thick and thin and rain and snow and ice

And now you're questioning my integrity

Is that any way to treat your future wife

Doesn't morning wait for the sun to rise

Like a birthday waits for a big surprise

Like a baby waits for a diaper change

Doesn't laughter wait for a joke that's good

Like the big bad wolf for Red Riding Hood

Like a cowboy waits to be home on the range

After all I've said and all I've done

To prove my love is true


And now you ask if I'll wait for you

Doesn't mother wait for the bread to rise

Like a burger waits for an order of fries

Like a chicken waits for the egg to hatch

Didn't Alice wait for a Wonderland

Like Captain Hook did for Peter Pan

Like the alphabet waited for the letter Z

Like a faithful girl waits for her missionary

Saturday Warriors

During our move we both made a decision... to dump the 7 binders of letters, emails, cards and packages I saved from Willie's mission. We have been lugging them from one house to the next and all they do is take up space. We have never read through them in 5 years and would rather not have anyone else read through them.. They weren't meant for posterity they were meant for us.  I didn't want to but the anti-hoarder in me won! I went through and photographed some of the fun or significant items or pages so we could remember them and pulled out those really important and memorable letters. We flipped through them together for maybe an hour laughing an joking about how cheesy they were... It was a long time for me, a short time for him but important time for both of us. It has been 6 years this month since he has been home. Since we dated 2 years before he left it was tempting for us to want to be together and bypass his mission. However as has hard as it was to be apart his mission has been one of our relationships greatest advantages and blessings. But, now our correspondence can live on documented in photographs:)