This is Cory...
(photo taken by Brian on the trampoline last summer)
Cory & Brian- aka the missionary- have been friends since the 5th grade.
Cory goes by corn chip at our house.
Cory & Brian were locker partners through jr. high.
Cory & Brian have been in 5-6 music theatre shows together.
Cory has a beautiful tenor voice- brian is a bass. I love when they sing together.
Cory has spent many a day & night here with our family- before the missionary left.
( Brian, Cory & Spencer outside David Letterman last spring-spencer is now on a mission in Leeds, England)
A couple of months ago we got a much anticipated phone call from Corn chip- he had received his mission papers... and excitedly told us he was being sent to Guatemala. he said he & brian would be speaking spanish to each other forever more.
Today we went to Cory's sacrament meeting service to hear him speak. Listening to him talk about choices, obedience to the commandments, love of family & church melted my heart. Hearing him bear testimony of a living prophet, Christ's atoning sacrifice, & his desire & faith to bring other's unto Christ on his mission... oh boy. Man, I love these kids.
Seeing Cory & some of Brian's other friends around town (but especially cory) was kind of like having a little bit of Brian around. A couple of months ago I saw Cory at the theatre & ran up to him to give him a hug. I asked him if he was a little creeped out having his friend's mom always wanting to hug him- he said I can hug him anytime...
Today I am so thankful for my children's friends. Nothing is more important when you are a teen than having good no great friends. We are truly blessed with an amazing generation coming up behind us.
during the sacrament service I sat next to Jack- it dawned on me for the first time... in two years guess who will be gone on a mission then? DAng it- these darn kids!
I'm missing Brian really a lot today.
Tomorrow he should email & I will write an update.....
The peanut left yesterday afternoon. He was really good- better than I anticipated. He took 2 long naps a day... slept all night. We carried him around mostly, but here's the evidence he played & was happy, sort of... he's such a serious baby.
For some reason, whenever Jack was around he just couldn't stop staring at him. It was really funny to watch him- watch jack. He nearly twisted his head around several times to keep his eye on him. I think Jack liked it.
Cory the missionary-
