Monday, January 26, 2009

Elder Patch!

Hey Ya'all! So as most of you know, from the rest of my fam's posts...my brother Patch left on Wed. January 21, 2008- For a 2 year LDS mission. We all packed into my moms Pilot and drove to Provo on Wednesday morning. We got to do a few fun things like doughnuts at Krispie Kremes, lunch at Applebees, before we went to the MTC. This was the 2nd time I have been to the MTC. though the 1st time was when I was 6 for my oldest brother-Ryan. It was the same thing. A dumb movie that only brings on the tears more, and a sad "goodbye." Patch was my closest brother, of course he had to be since he is only 13 months younger than I...So we've been through it all together. I'm gonna miss him tonzz, but its bittersweet- Caues I know he is serving the Lord, and the people of Riverside are going to be lucky to meet him! The only thing I pray most about is his safety!-oh, and that my mom will be okay!
Oh, and I must say..that I proved everyone wrong about how much I bawled. Even myself- Of course i was a bawl baby saying the 'goodbyes'- But that's it! Whoo hoo. I was even good the night before when he was set apart as an Elder..Whoo-hoo It must mean that the Lord is helping me be strong and get through this, because it is a challenge to have a brother gone for 2 WHOLE years! Ugh, hopefully time will go fast! I'll be checking my count down clock at the bottom of my page often. I think its down to 725 more days til Elder Patrick G. McBride returns with honor! The thing I'll miss most are our late night game nights! My Boggle partner is caput! But we played at least 10 rounds the night before he left. And since he had been set apart, he wouldn't let me watch TV- It was only Golden Girls (cant get much cleaner than that-right?-JK) So he put in Saturdays Warrior( I think it was to be funny- we're not losers:) And we just laughed the whole time! haha...good times and great memories!

---So I'm having trouble downloading the pics right now from that day...but I will try again later! Hope you are all doing well. And I hope winter goes by fast, I don't know about all of you- but I'm DONE...and its only January- YIKES!