Missionary Wall

My sister in law has a missionary wall where she hangs pictures and letters from her son.  I loved the idea because it helps keep the younger kids involved with big brother.  I started making plans for mine long before Cache even left, but then I started sensing  how private he wanted to keep his mission and decided I should not even work on it until after he was gone.  And since one thing leads to another and projects such as these do not take top priority over children and their needs, it took me until Labor Day to get it finished and hung.  I'm so glad I finally got it done because there has been much more talk about Cache amongst the kids.  And I love seeing his cute face everyday when coming down the hall.  

As with my typical (boring) decorating style, I got frames from DI and refurbished.  I decided to be a little brave and do them each a different color; I put color streaks in all three and elements on them to tie them together. I'm happy with how it turned out.

The scripture is the last part of the scripture he chose for his missionary plaque that hangs at church.  

The temple and scripture pictures came from lds.org then I sent them to Costco for printing then cut it to fit my frames.  

And as part of our family missionary work, we are indexing and arbitrating, so I decided to include that.  Tom is the biggest indexer, but the others of us contribute some also. 

 I'm asked all the time how he is doing.  He seems quite good, but I read in between the lines a lot.  I know he is very concerned with sending emails he hasn't had time to edit (his words:  edited for content and delivery), but that is exactly what missionary life is throwing at him, and so I don't get a long newsy letters.  I will just have to hear details when he gets home and savor what he sends, because I'm sure there are those who write even less.

Since his emails are not lengthy and he doesn't always get all of our questions answered, I decided to send him a Pop Quiz.  I knew he wouldn't have much time to write so I made all of the questions either yes/no or very short answer.  To my wonderful surprise, I got it back (!) and with a few extra notes as explanation on the back.  I think I might get away with sending a pop quiz once a quarter or so!