Mothers Day Phone Call!!!

On Sunday we actually got to hear his voice!!!! It was so exciting!!! We were scheduled to call him at noon so of course mom hurried home from church early and began calling the phone card she had purchased to get everything set up. Then we spent way to much time trying to figure out how long we could talk with the phone card we had. (Let's just say the way Zach and Tyler were doing the math was way beyond what they needed to be doing!!! LOL it was quite entertaining to see there brains working though!) Anyways dad comes home and we figured out we had seven hours with that phone card!!!!! (Yes we knew he couldn't talk that long but we were prepared regardless!) So mom starts calling the number and all she gets is a busy signal over and over!!! It was pretty frustrating and she was getting impatient! We were blaming it on his companion thinking he was still on the phone with his fam but at 12:10 the phone rings and it is Alex calling Us!!!! He was wondering what the heck was going on and why we hadn't called him yet!!! Who knows what was going on with the connection! Anyways he says he can just talk to us and we don't need to call him back but then the bad news came, he only had an hour or so to talk to us. (And we were exciting thinking we had seven hours!) LOL

Of course mom goes first and it doesn't take her long to start crying which makes the rest of us cry, or maybe just me!!! Mom had a good conversation with him and he said that they had nine investigators in church with them that day!!! Pretty neat we thought!! I'm not sure what was all said because I only got mom's side of the conversation. Mom got a little confused when he asked for Nioxin!! She was thinking it was some kind of medicine!! LOL I exsplained it was for hair loss!!! I guess he thinks he is losing all his hair so that was his request for his birthday!!! Also he let mom know he had given away the baseball she had sent him so he needed some more!

Finally it was my turn!! And of course mom was crying as she got off the phone so I was crying also!! It was so neat to hear his voice and he sounds amazing!!! He has a bit of an accent and he talks so proper! I was way impressed! Anyone who marries him is going to be very lucky! He has a strong testimony and he made sure he let me know before we got off the phone that the church is true, and Heavenly Father is preparing a kingdom in Heaven for me and my family as long as I do what is right!! Wow it was powerful to hear!! He is an amazing person and we all love and miss him so much!

Everyone else did get their turn and even though it was not as long as we would have like we enjoyed every min. of it!!!

As he said goodbye he let mom know that he was going to cycle home as fast as he could and cry himself to sleep because he missed us all so much!! Now that broke all of our hearts!!! But he is strong and he will get through another day. Now we have to wait all the way till christmas to hear his voice again! :(

Katie