My parents left for Peru on Saturday. They will be gone a little more than two weeks. I am very much used to being left alone. Okay, I'm not alone, my older brother is here. But he is 28 and we both sort of keep to ourselves. We have been getting along a bit better the past few days but sometimes it is tense and usually we just don't speak.

Every other time my parents have left over the past year I have had Ryan to talk with, at least on the phone. I hang out with his family now and then, which is very nice. But I do miss him. And whenever I write letters I leave things out, realizing this only after having sealed and send said letter. I am keeping a journal in which I write stories and thoughts I have, so he can read them when he gets back. He took a journal with him and told me he would do the same thing. I think it is pretty sweet and I just imagine what it must be like at the MTC. Apparently he gets the most letters, but that is no surprise considering his HUGE family (five siblings, one on the way, plus two parents, plus his grandma probably writes to him) and myself, of course. 

Basically, I sure do think about him a lot. I think about songs and how they relate to missionary work. Everything I read in the scriptures I quickly wonder if he has ever read that and thought whatever it is I'm thinking about. He probably has, or if he hasn't I'm sure he soon will! I realized before he left that it is likely that at some point during his mission he and I will have read the same thing on the same day. It is a sort of comforting thought, really.

He wrote to me and said he "sang 'Abide With Me' in Russia". He didn't say in Russian. So being the grammar geek that I am I stared at this for a moment thinking, "He isn't in Russia yet!" He is sort of funny that way; he leaves out words in sentences and just writes the wrong forms. I don't mind, for some reason I think it is just really cute. It reminds me of him. He is so smart but overlooks the little details. A lot of people are like that, really, but once a person moves from spell-check to a pen and paper things turn out differently. 

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