Missionary Phone Calls

Part of Christmas for most of the years since Nathan left. We tried a few methods, borrowing Glines' speaker phone, a speaker from Dad's office, or just passing the phone around. Spencer spoke with such a thick Aussie accent Mom couldn't understand him. David said he'd call "at three." We weren't sure what that meant (or just hoped for some adventure,) so we stayed up until three in the morning the night before. I think Mom was really finishing projects Christmas Eve. Mom always cries. I was always excited to talk, but then would run out of things to say. Christmas was pretty synonymous with a missionary phone call.