Aaron here-- Andrew's dad... Finally back home in Hungary-- was awesome dropping Andrew off at the MTC a week ago today. We turned into "those parents" immediately-- sending him two packages in the first 4 days, prior to our flight home Monday.
Normally the missionaries write home the first night (we assumed via email) and since we hadn't heard anything by Friday night, I called the MTC and asked about the policy-- really played it up by indicating we were an international family from Hungary and wanted to know that all was OK with the new Elder Palmer, etc.. (apparently arriving International Elders are supposed to make a quick 5 minute call the first day to their family) so they got Andrew on Saturday to call us. Typical Andrew-- already taken to the MTC life, and his call was hilariously serious-- basically "Why the heck am I calling you guys? My P-day isn't until Thursday, don't you know how busy I am?" Awesome. I asked if he'd gotten our mail or package, and his response was "you've written to me already? Its only been 4 days..." Apparently hadn't even checked his mail yet :-)
So. We are glad Andrew is off to a roaring start, with 17 Elders and sisters in is group, and 8 of them are speaking Latvian. He's in a 3-some with two other Elders, and hopefully we'll get details tomorrow on his first P-day.
And if he's not too busy, we might just get an email :-)
Aaron
Here's a couple photos from his drop off last Wednesday, including a few from our "last family meal" at the Kieffers Tuesday night. All we were missing was Dad, who but for an unfortunate accident in Iowa the previous week, would have been there with us as well!
Normally the missionaries write home the first night (we assumed via email) and since we hadn't heard anything by Friday night, I called the MTC and asked about the policy-- really played it up by indicating we were an international family from Hungary and wanted to know that all was OK with the new Elder Palmer, etc.. (apparently arriving International Elders are supposed to make a quick 5 minute call the first day to their family) so they got Andrew on Saturday to call us. Typical Andrew-- already taken to the MTC life, and his call was hilariously serious-- basically "Why the heck am I calling you guys? My P-day isn't until Thursday, don't you know how busy I am?" Awesome. I asked if he'd gotten our mail or package, and his response was "you've written to me already? Its only been 4 days..." Apparently hadn't even checked his mail yet :-)
So. We are glad Andrew is off to a roaring start, with 17 Elders and sisters in is group, and 8 of them are speaking Latvian. He's in a 3-some with two other Elders, and hopefully we'll get details tomorrow on his first P-day.
And if he's not too busy, we might just get an email :-)
Aaron
Here's a couple photos from his drop off last Wednesday, including a few from our "last family meal" at the Kieffers Tuesday night. All we were missing was Dad, who but for an unfortunate accident in Iowa the previous week, would have been there with us as well!
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