Sorry for not getting an update on here sooner...
First off, Christmas day was great - we thought the call would come in early afternoon but he didn't get to a computer until 5:45PM. His excuse..."I had to help milk 170 head of cows".
So apparently he has learned the valuable lesson that farmers never get a day off as the missionaries help a local dairy once a week (and on holidays).
The best news was that they had a baptism the day after Christmas!
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Since the Skype-call, we have been talking with the OTM mission home because his release date is Friday March 14th. Not counting today, that leaves 64 days until we see him in person. This is very exciting - he already has several friends that have returned home and one flying in from Washington D.C. today. Time truly flies by the last six months or so - we are sure proud of what Elder Blackburn has accomplished and he has discovered his farmer DNA.
Today his email was mainly going over travel plans and such - but he did have one very interesting comment:
Hey btw I've successfully castrated --a ram and a calf with a pocketknife and my bare hands and so I'm pretty much a Wayne county sheepherder now.
How many missionaries can say that? Wow.
Elder Hayden Blackburn - Oklahoma Tulsa Mission. Serving a voluntary two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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