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cougarobgon · 09-16-2008, 08:25 PM

What a gut wrenching experience! I thought I was prepared since both my wife and I have been looking forward to this day for 19 years. It was more difficult than I thought it would be. I can now understand why my Mom was “sobbing” when she dropped me off at the Greyhound bus terminal back in 1981. I have five more boys…I hope it gets easier.

Indy Coug · 09-16-2008, 08:43 PM

Where are they going?

cougarobgon · 09-16-2008, 09:25 PM

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Where are they going?

Manchester NH Mission

RC Vikings · 09-16-2008, 09:26 PM

Good luck. Things get a little better after you get that first letter and he seems to be doing good. It's three weeks tomorrow for me and I was doing pretty good until yesterday and I really started missing him again. I feel your pain. The only plus is I've been using his driver and I hit the crap out of it.

exUte · 09-16-2008, 10:51 PM

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Manchester NH Mission

in the Philippines, I'm not sure she would have been as supportive as she was.

MikeWaters · 09-17-2008, 12:29 AM

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in the Philippines, I'm not sure she would have been as supportive as she was.

What, that the people were short and non-white?

ERCougar · 09-17-2008, 01:28 AM

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What, that the people were short and non-white?

Does anyone remember that talk in GC a few years ago about people who, instead of playing a song on the piano, just play the same key over and over again?

Indy Coug · 09-17-2008, 01:38 AM

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What, that the people were short and non-white?

What does height and skin color have to do with living conditions?

creekster · 09-17-2008, 01:39 AM

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What does height and skin color have to do with living conditions?

SHort people can't clean the top of the fridge.

MikeWaters · 09-17-2008, 02:13 AM

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What does height and skin color have to do with living conditions?

That's funny, when you consider that the supermarkets in Dallas are segregated essentially.

09-16-2008, 08:25 PM	#1
cougarobgon Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Oregon Posts: 102	Have you ever sent a son/daughter out to the mission field? What a gut wrenching experience! I thought I was prepared since both my wife and I have been looking forward to this day for 19 years. It was more difficult than I thought it would be. I can now understand why my Mom was “sobbing” when she dropped me off at the Greyhound bus terminal back in 1981. I have five more boys…I hope it gets easier.

09-16-2008, 09:26 PM	#4
RC Vikings Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Rexburg, Idaho Posts: 2,236	Good luck. Things get a little better after you get that first letter and he seems to be doing good. It's three weeks tomorrow for me and I was doing pretty good until yesterday and I really started missing him again. I feel your pain. The only plus is I've been using his driver and I hit the crap out of it. __________________ "I always rode to my limit. If I won by three minutes, that's because I couldn't make four." Eddy Merckx Last edited by RC Vikings; 09-16-2008 at 09:30 PM.

09-16-2008, 08:43 PM	#2
Indy Coug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Iraq and a hard place Posts: 7,569	Where are they going?