he left at nineteen years of age, like most do.  he's been serving for nearly a year.  isn't that crazy?  though the time passes, i've always felt like missionaries don't age.  i imagine every missionary in the field as permanently nineteen years old.  but how weird is it that they actually do get older, and come home as twenty-one year olds?  the weirdest.  the boy who calls himself your missionary is twenty today.  twenty years old!

so here's to you, darling, you in japan--right where you should be.