The One With a Weird Twist

I have a couple of weeks worth of catching up to do here on the blog.

Elder Jayden returned home from his mission in Colombia and his mission homecoming was on the 12th, Elder Brendan's birthday.
I was emotionally raw.
Excited and nervous about welcoming one son home, but heavy-hearted, and missing so much the birthday boy who is still absent from our home.

Elder Wadley, Elder Calderwood

I prayed so hard that the baptism that was lined up would go through. (It did.)
I thought that maybe that would ease the crappiness of his first birthday away from home.
What better way for a missionary to celebrate a birthday!
That and a lot of the sweet members of his ward came through and made him a cake, and lined up a couple of nice dinner appointments. I am always a little weepy at the kindness of strangers to me- who love my son.

So, here is a quick re-cap of the highlights of the past couple of weeks in Indiana.

• "my bday was just as meh as they always are haha"
• "btw im getting transferred im going to whiteriver- im super pumped"
• He took a p-day field trip to a comic book museum that was "super sick" sent us pictures of gobbledy-gook like Tony Stark's artificial heart thingie and Captain America's shield. I think inside every man is a 12 year old boy.
• From a member of his ward "your son bore his testimony today in priesthood, and it was so touching." Things a mom likes to hear.
• His new apartment had bedbugs. He said it was nasty. They had to deep clean, spray alcohol where you could see them, and then bomb the apartment (with pesticide). He said he had some bites and to "be grateful we don't have them in Utah."

And the big surprise?

• With this last transfer, Elder Wadley is now one of the Spanish speaking Elders. 

Yup.
Almost eight months out, and learning to speak Spanish.
I am not sure exactly how this came about. His current branch is completely Spanish speaking. When I asked about his investigators, he said he wasn't sure how it was going, because he couldn't really understand them.
His companion is teaching him the language, and he is trying his hardest to pick it up.
I am praying for a gift-of-tongues-no-more-bugs miracle for him.