How did that experience change you and Ajalene as mission leaders? Yeah.

I think there's very few things that impacted us more.

And it was a gift to have her with us as a service missionary.

But you're right, she went and did her senior year of high school in Brazil.

She was the only American in the American school from sixth to 12th grade.

So it was very lonely, but she was so tough, she never complained.

And there were tears, we saw tears, but she was so positive about the experience, which we felt very lucky to have a daughter that was so willing to try this.

Can you elaborate on that?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I thought they might just say, Hey, tell her that she can do it.

Tell her to stick, stick through it, you know, to be tough, but that's not what I was hearing.

And so we got off that phone call and I immediately reached out to her mission president.

And then we talked to her and within a few days she was home and she got back thin and emotionally fragile.

And it was really sad.

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