Call arrived!!!!
And we are all here for it!!
Calls now arrive in your email...
so around 10am Carson text the family and said
MY CALL IS HERE!
My stomach immediately got butterflies...I was so excited for him!
He had a plan, there were a couple people he wanted to have read his call before him.
One person was his AP teacher at school, Kim Ball
She read it and was so excited for him...but didn't even give him a hint.
When I got home from work that day, he handed me his phone and said,
"I need you to read it. Then give me a thumbs up or thumbs down. Just so I know what to plan on when I read it tonight in front of everyone."
I knew a thumbs down would be any state touching Utah...
thumbs up was pretty much anything else!
I took his phone and he watched me quietly read it to myself...
The tears were immediate.
And he immediately left the room, because I think the tears were contagious.
He said, "mom. thumbs up or down???"
I said "Carson, I'm giving you TWO thumbs up!"
And then I gave him a GIANT hug and told him how proud I was of him.
I said, "I want to hug you now because I don't know if I will get the chance tonight with everyone coming over."
He said, "You get the first hug tonight!"
He then said, "Mom. am I going to be able to pronounce my call when I read it out loud tonight?"
I assured him he would be just fine.
I then went with Jane to print his call, and then did MY BEST to keep his secret the rest of the day!
These are a few of his closest group of friends...some of the GREATEST high school kids i've even known.
but he is LOVED and his people wanted to surround him with that love.
I wish I could have taken a pic of every single person there, I wish I could bottle up the excitement in the room, I wish i could replay that whole night over in slow motion and soak it all in.
As he was about to read his assignment, he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said,
"I'm already emotional, I don't know how I'm going to get through this."
I assured him his emotions were justified and he was just fine.
He did AMAZING!
He was emotional, the spirit was in the room and he read his entire letter from start to finish without problem. He's is a gift to me, he brings my heart more joy than I can explain.
He's also a stinker who stays out past curfew, but he's my baby boy and he really does no wrong in my eyes.
Our home will not be the same without him!
But I would never wish this away...
Dear Elder Lewis
ROME ITALY
September 15th
Provo MTC
At the end of the night, he said,
"It's not the assignment I wanted, it's BETTER!"
