We Will Truly Miss You

Our favorite Sister Missionary, Sister Pakalani is going to be transferred on Monday. It's a sad, sad day! My mom had the sisters over for dinner on Sat, so we were able to go over to have an evening with her before her tranfer. We have loved her SO much, especially Corin! She has been in our ward for 7months. Our ward was her first area and where she was trained. It's hard to express what she had meant to me, my family and especially Corin. Corin instantly gravitated towards her when she first came into our ward. She brought the Spirit into our home when we had the pleasure of having the Sisters over for dinner. Even when she was learning English and was having a hard time expressing her message, you could feel the Spirit. Corin would get crazy excited when the sisters would come over for dinner (partly because he gets crazy anyway when people come over and he likes to show off) because he was able to see Sister Pakalani and I know its because he loves her. She would always apologize for getting him crazy, but it was okay even if I did try to get him to calm down. I later realized that I was getting way too uptight about him getting crazy. She would play with him and I realized I was making her think that she was doing something wrong. I just needed to learn to relax a bit, even though it was hard for them to give a spiritual message when he was running around showing off. I hope we'll be able to keep in touch even when she is finished with her mission and back home in Tonga. I am grateful for technology which will make it easy for us to keep in touch.