10 May 1928
John Griffin to Mother / Montpellier, France
Tonight Frere Johnson received a big bundle of school papers from the A.C. (The Agricultural College, now Utah State University). I have been reading them all evening and of course my mind was carried completely away, back home again, and the I hear the sharp train whistle across the road here and I look up out of the window onto the old red-tiled brick roofs and realize one more that I am over here in France on a mission, and what's more, that I will be for another 22 months.
(part of the letter missing) I read all about the play from you before I heard a word about it from Dot. Yesterday I got a letter from Dot, the first in nine days, and found out a little second hand news about the play. dot seems to act in spurts. Sometimes I receive 3 and four letters a week from here and other times I have waited as long as 16 days. I am surely glad that I can most always depend on a good letter from home at least once a week. You can't imagine what a few encouraging words from home means to a missionary especially at certain times. ... I got a very good letter today from Mrs. Israelson telling me all about her trip, etc. I think Dot ought to take lessens from her mother in letter writing.
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