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Missionary Writer Ramblings

I never liked English class. I got confused with pronouns and adverbs. I never memorized the lists and I got lost in the explanations. English is a hard language. Writing was never on my radar. I had no plans to write anything of value. None. Though I did think that writing my story would be cool. However, I also thought that it would be rather egotistical.  Then I became a missionary. Missionaries are expected to write updates. Back in the day our mission told us that a supporting church wanted to receive at least one update every quarter. I had been on a missions committee and remembered getting loooooong updates, with fine print and fuzzy pictures. Ho hum.  Anyway, we joined our mission in June of 1993, the very same year that email became a popular way of communicating. You remember email right?  The old update method saw missionaries typing out multiple letters to multiple supporters, addressing multiple envelopes, sealing said envelopes, licking stamps and tossing t...