leelah.

when we were little i called kason leelah. no idea why.

when we were little i also cried when my parent told me i couldn't marry kason when we grew up. i didn't understand why, all i knew is that kason was my best friend and it made me so, so sad that i couldn't marry him.

my whole life it's been me, kason, and kody. the most we've been separated is when i lived in Logan for a year, and i came home most weekends to visit. i'm not going to lie, now that kason is gone i kind of feel like 1/3 of my soul is missing.

buuut, i am so grateful to have a brother who wants to serve the Lord and i am so proud of him! it's weird that i am at the time in my life that i can no longer look out for my little brother, but i know he is being taken care of by the Lord.

wednesday night daws and i had a nerf gun war with his mission buddies and our friends pat and becca. we had done this before one other time and it is always so much fun!

and...i have the best husband ever. i was kinda down when he left this morning and he surprised me today by coming home early with a blue powerade and made us a delicious lunch. 

-misses lake

elder kendall is in the mtc!

this is a copy of the post i put on kason's mission blog.
if you want to follow his blog it is elderkasonkendall.blogspot.com.

hello everyone, kandis here! we haven't heard from elder kendall yet, but i just wanted to post a little about dropping him off at the mtc.

first of all, it was quite a blessing to have kourtney and beau in town last weekend before he left.

and two weeks before that, his farewell was fantastic! it was crazy how many people were there and it was awesome to see him get so much support from friends and family! and i was so proud at how great his talk was. he'll sure be great out there.

so wednesday morning elder kason kendall was set apart as a missionary and afterwards received a father's blessing from our dad. his promises and blessings in both were beautiful and it was incredible to be able to hear him get set apart as a missionary and witness the spirit that comes with that calling.

after rounding up some last minute packing, which included searching the house high and low for his camera (we found it already packed in his backpack), he said goodbye to the dogs (it's crazy how hard that could be), and we left to get some brunch.

we ate in bountiful then headed down to provo. we stopped at the temple before dropping him off at the mtc and took some pictures and then said one more family prayer in the car before going to the mtc. 

we had been told to say our goodbyes before getting to the mtc because he would be whisked away the moment he got out of the car, but he actually wasn't hit over the head and stuffed into a bag when we pulled up to the curb. we had a few extra minutes to get big hugs from our missionary before he headed inside and how grateful i am for that! one of the missionaries picking him up at the curb said that he had been in manaus for two summers and that it is the most beautiful place on earth! the other missionary assured us they would take good care of him.

what is more important to me is that i know the Lord will take good care of him. it's really hard to say goodbye to my little brother, but nothing brings me more peace than to know that he is serving the Lord and that he's in the Lord's hands.

[our faces look funny in some of these pictures because the sun was shining in our eyes]

 -kandi