Week #4 Begins - He's on his way!

On Monday, July 21, about 8:10am we received a phone call from Elder Balagna from the Salt Lake City UT airport! It was GREAT to hear from him. We were able to talk to him for about 30 minutes and we could just hear the excitement in his voice as he was preparing to leave. He left with 14 missionaries for their Santa Rosa assignments. He told us that he would be arriving at the Oakland CA airport, driving about 2 hours to Santa Rosa and spending the night in the mission home. On Tuesday he would be leaving for his first area.

It was amazing to us that after almost 3 weeks in the MTC he had made such good friends - and how difficult is was for all of them to say good-bye. What a tremendous experience!

We are out of town for the rest of the week celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary so we won't be able to check the mailbox for Alex's first letter until we get home. Our guess is that his P-Day (preparation day) is Monday - so we're hoping to get an e-mail then and we will post again with Alex's current news as well as his new address.

Happy Pioneer Day! :-)