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Here’s a little story about our missionary and a fun conglomeration of talents.

Back in July, when Chayse’s mission got an new mission president and Chayse started working in the mission office as a Tech Elder, he designed an awesome new logo for their mission. About a month later one of our former neighbor friends offered to deliver a package to Elder Thompson since he drives past his mission all the time.

So, I put together a package that included a surprise ukulele.  Alyssa did a wonderful job of painting the mission logo on the back of the ukulele as an extra surprise.  And it did turn out to be a great treat for him and he said he and his companion, Elder Jones, were loving it.

Then about a month after they got it Chayse sent us several recordings of some songs they made about their mission.  We have enjoyed listening to them so much! Brady really likes the first one that is in Spanish (and talks about the Elder that fell in the sewer - based on a true mission experience). Ruby likes the second song, the fun little ditty about ‘story time with Elder Jones.’ And Alyssa likes the spicy third song because you can’t help but dance to it. And Bryce and I love them all!

I love seeing and hearing my children use their talents. It brings me great happiness. And seeing all these talents (the computer graphic designing, the painting, the singing, the song writing, the instrument playing) collide in this fun experience, has just tickled me.

And even though they are corny missionary songs, we’ve listened to them many times together, just jammin’ out in the kitchen or at the dinner table, singing along and laughing. It’s been such a fun, simple way to get a different peek into his mission experience.