Did I Blink and Miss it?

I have been so busy with life and getting my missionary ready that I have not posted in forever, so long in fact that I did not realize that it has been since June! It is kind of fitting actually, it seems like it was yesterday that I wrote my last post and it seems like yesterday that my little Josh was toddling around the house playing with cars and Lego's and climbing on EVERYTHING!

And then TODAY he walked down the airport hallway, entered

the tram and was out of my sight and my arms for two years.

If feels like life was on warp speed and I just lost my breath and

all the years in between then and now.

Elder Joshua Alvarez, Future Hermana Alvarez (Phoenix Arizona Mission- 1/11) and Justin

He has grown from that little boy to a man and I could not be prouder of him.

I told him the other day as we drove together running errands that this two years was a gift to him from his family and from his Heavenly Father and it was his gift to our Savior and those that he will serve. As hard it is was to watch him walk away and how painful it is to not have him here with us, it would not be fair to him to take this experience from him and it would not be fair to keep him from serving the Lord. After all that my Heavenly Father has blessed me with it would be unthinkable to not have Josh serve Him now.

And so my heart breaks with sorrow at losing him for two years but in return my spirit can hardly contain the joy I feel knowing that this son of mine as chosen to serve the Son of God.

("Seeking the One" Liz Lemon Swindle)

Mosiah 2:17: And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.

He is going to be an AMAZING missionary!

(I have a lot of updating to do over the next few months...stay tuned:):)