Nov. 3rd Off to Singapore

The day is finally here! Kevin leaves tomorrow for Singapore! Please keep him in your prayers. This is the single picture that he has sent me while in the MTC. I hope to get a few more once he is actually out on his mission. His companion, Elder Lang, is to his left.

We just had a missionary from our ward return from Portugal and he was sitting in front of us on Sunday. He asked where Kevin was going and when I told him Singapore/Malaysia, he told me that he has a really good friend who is serving over there! It is common in Utah for a designated mom (or a couple of mothers) to compile a newsletter for their boys and their friends on missions so they can keep in touch without writing a ton of letters. (Somehow I inherited this honor for Kevin's friends. Right now, I have 26 boys/parents who send me monthly updates and I compile them into a newsletter. Isn't that amazing, though, that Kevin has 26 close friends all serving missions? It really is such a blessing.) Anyway, Judd sent me a copy of his group's newsletter so I could see his friend in Malaysia's last entry. The great news is that he loves his mission and they are having tons of success over there. His friend was actually assigned to Borneo and was speaking Iban (a third language Kevin may learn in addition to Indonesian and Malay). In his entry, he noted that as recently as 2 generations ago, the Iban people were headhunters.

What???

There was one other entry in the newsletter that was classic! Unfortunately, the document is a PDF file and I can't get a clear copy of the photo that was posted, but it was a picture of a church billboard in a rural city in New York where he was serving. It said, "Don't Pray About the Book of Mormon. That's How They Get You!"