Mother's Day call!!!

Calling from here.....................................................to here, is not that easy!!!!

There are two different times in the year that parents are able to speak to their missionary on the phone.  Mother's Day is one of those days.  Elder Lyman had given us his phone number to call him.  We had purchased international phone cards and looked up the country codes.  We felt prepared.  We were suppose to call at 8:00 AM our time.  We started dialing at 8:00 and the call would not go through.  When 45 minutes had gone by with about 45 tries and no success, we were panicked (we knew he was sitting there waiting for our call):(  I called Lyle Nielson (Josh's French teacher from high school) to see if we could figure out what we were doing wrong.  He was out of town but his wife Leslie said she would try to get hold of him.  She called back and said she hadn't gotten hold of him but she found some notes on their computer about calling France.  With the information she gave us we finally got through:)

We had a good, long talk with him.  He is doing good.  It was such a great Mother's Day present to be able to talk to him!!!