Heading into the last week at the MTC...

Hooray, another letter has arrived from Elder Merrill.  He sounds like he is in good spirits and that things are plugging right along! He is curious as to what everyone is doing here back at home:

How are Jess and Brad doing? Settling in I hope? It's weird to think of them as living somewhere else, but Jess was never really around the house in the first place, so I guess it's really not much of a change. I hope life is going well over there, I heard about Kyle's room getting a little wrecked, fortunately,  there won't be a shortage of sleeping places around the house. I wonder how Stuart rearranged my room? No doubt it has more tech stuff in it now, and I hope that he's got plenty of room in it.

He also had a bit of unwelcome news for Mom:

 I have a spot of bad news... They don't let you call home on Mothers Day  I've underlined this so you clearly understand that I won't be calling home on May 12th. The MTC wanted to make sure that we told you so they wouldn't be getting a bunch of calls. lol.

While I (mom) clearly understand the impossible logistics of 3 pay phones and an average of 2500 missionaries, it was still a huge disappointment. On the upside though, he gets to call from the airport when he leaves the MTC, but it will be a bit sadder this Mother's Day.

Finally Elder Merrill made a request this week:

  Hey, I don't know if you can do this or not, but if you can, listen closely:

1.can you send me a pillow? the ones here are horrible, I won't have one in Argentina, and it'll be nice to have something from home. 

2. send one of the pillows I normally used. not the tempurpedic pillow or whatever, but a normal pillow with a normal pillow case.

3. have fun in china! 

So I have got  him a new pillow and a pillowcase. I have had several people sign or draw on the pillow case, so I think he will enjoy it. Now I have to dash out and mail it immediately, in case he heads out this week.  His visa for Argentina still has not come in yet (almost 3 months now since all the paperwork was turned in for that....) so there is a possibility that he may go to a stateside mission temporarily. Next week should be full of all kinds of exciting news as to what he will be doing next! Stay tuned!