An Explanation of Sorts

A widow's walk; also known as a "widow's watch" is a railed rooftop platform - often with a small enclosed cupola frequently found on 19th-century North American coastal houses. A popular romantic myth holds that the platform was used to observe vessels at sea. The name is said to come from the wives of mariners, who would watch for their spouses' return.

Now, because I'm a morbid person, I found a Widow's Walk to be a proper item of comparison to use in this blog: A blog documenting my wait for my missionary. All of my goals, successes, failures and everything else should be here.

Elder Derek Peterson is my missionary. A great man who really has been through a lot in his life and deserves as much as anyone to go on a mission. He leaves November 28th to Guam and is scheduled to have a regulatory 2 year mission, and I couldn't be more proud. Or sad. It's never an easy thing to say goodbye to someone you love, ask any spouse of a soldier. But, like the spouse of a soldier - minus the being a spouse part - I know he is worth the wait: Every single second. He will be out serving God and benefiting all those who could not hear his word in any other way. Not to mention, I need the time to prepare for being with him for the rest of forever. (deep breaths now...)

Elder Peterson the day he got his mission call.

It's basically impossible to get a good picture of him.

 

 As far as I'm concerned, waiting two years is nothing. And not dating? Piece of cake. I'm not much of a people person anyway. (This blog is more for me to vent than anything) I'm just hoping my Widow's Walk days aren't quite as... Fruitless, as the women's whose experiences coined the terms. I have a month before he leaves, and I hope you all are praying for us, and for Elder Peterson's success in his mission.

 

 

I'll make my best attempt to write again before he leaves.