I finally started receiving letters from my husband! The first one arrived on Saturday, April 20th. Since then, I have received another six which brings the grand total up to seven! Talk about a roller coaster of emotions on my part! I am always so incredibly excited but then the letters sometimes make me cry. The first few were quite sad. My poor husband was miserable but he is doing so much better now. The last letter was so positive that I wanted to jump up and down and spin in circles and just squeal with delight however I tried to contain my excitement since the previously mentioned behaviors most likely would not be socially accepted in a coffee shop... I am just so proud of him! He is one of the prayer leaders and his platoon is doing well. In his letters, he has directed me toward two passages of the Bible: All of James 3 and Colossians 3:1-17. I love reading what he has been studying. He also inquired about how my reading of the Bible is going (I am currently reading in Exodus). It seems like we have both grown so much all throughout our experiences with the military. God is definitely using this difficult time of separation to build us up. It is amazing to read through the letters because I can actually see how we have both been growing in Christ and in our relationship with one another. This whole situation has only made our marriage and our bond stronger. One of the things that I look forward to the most when Cameron and I are finally reunited (in 49 days!) is that we will be able to talk to each other about the things that we have experienced and how we have grown and the things that we have learned in person. I love my husband entirely. I love him so much that I cannot even comprehend how a person can love another person so much. There are no words that can accurately describe these feelings. All I can do is stand here in awe. Whenever I think about how far we have come within our first eleven months of marriage, I get tears in my eyes because I see just how amazing God's love truly is. I know that I am not capable of knowing fully how much He loves us but through my marriage to Cameron, I have gotten a glimpse. What I Corinthians 13:4-8 says is so true. We have now survived the first five and a half weeks of basic training. Only six more to go! Until that day, I will be right here relying on God, counting down the days and stalking the mailman! Thankfully he understands that as the wife of a soon-to-be Marine, I have to stalk him so that I can get my letters as soon as they come... God bless you all and hang in there all of you fellow military wives and others that have to experience separation from your husbands. Real love truly does endure all things! This is Mrs. Gilligan, signing off! :)