Mom lined us up to take our last photo of the four of us together. Two whole years...we will be so lonely for him. We have all always been so close, and we have always had a special way of using humor and jokes to become closer.

As we rode in the van to the airport, he kept taking very deep breaths and wiping off his sweaty palms on his pants. But when we arrived we saw lots of missionaries there. As we would walk by them, they would shout out to Nick, "Hey! Where you goin?" when Nick would say Brazil, it made us all breathe a little easier when they would reply, "Me too! See ya in a minute!" Just to know he wouldn't be alone was so comforting to all of us!