Talking to David over Skype

 Yesterday was David's first pday where we got to chat over skype!  It just so happened that the kids at home had the day off from school, so yesterday felt a little reminiscent of Christmas Eve 2018.  David usually is my alarm clock on Monday morning because he messages me very early, sometimes as early as 4 am.  But this mamma doesn't miss a chance to talk to her missionary!  Yesterday he messaged me around 7 am and asked me if I was ready to talk.  I opened up the computer and he called me over skype.  We connected and started realizing that we couldn't hear david but he could hear us.  Those malagasy computers on not the best and we have experienced this before.  David asked that Lucy say a prayer, and we did momentarily fix the audio, but the computer jack was broken on his end.  David messaged me, "I want to cry!"  I felt his pain and quickly started asking him to switch computers with someone in the cyber.  His sweet companion switched with him and then we were able finally hear him.  I can't tell you how much I missed his laugh, smile and Davidisms.  He looks so tan and skinny!  He went from gaining a lot of weight in the MTC and tucu, to losing all of that weight in Tana!  He loved talked with his siblings and Joseph was able to make him laugh.  They didn't skip a beat from the last time they talked.  Lucy and David loved talking and Lucy asked him a lot about Lemurs...she got a stuffed lemur for Christmas, so she's been thinking a lot about It.  David told me that he missed my Thai coconut curry!  Oh man that pulled at my heart strings.  He also said, "Mom, there's a song I've been listening to that reminds me of you, can you guess what it is?"  I said, "Let us all press on?"  (everyone knows I'm obsessed) He said, "No, it's you are loved by Josh Groban."  I was so happy that he is thinking about how much I love him, because I pray for that every single day, that he will know how much he is loved by me and feel that love even though he is so far away.  I am so glad that we get to talk more, it feels so weird though!  I feel like I'm breaking the rules, but I know that I will get used to this new way of communicating as time goes on.  I'm so grateful to my Father in Heaven to provide such a tender mercy!