Called to Serve

Our journey has been so long and at times discouraging but our call finally arrived.  We have been called to the Lisbon Portugal Mission. We will be working with the Stake Single Adults.  So excited. We loved the single adults when we worked with them here in our stake andso to be able to do that is such a sweet blessing.  I had planned to have my local children here to be with us when we opened our envelope but I told them when it came and they started textingback and forth entreating me to open it and let them know where we were going.  I told them that I was going to wait.  Well, Minon didn't want to come because they had planned to go to the rodeo and Caleb couldn't come because he had to go out of town for training for his electrical stuff.  So Mitchell was the only one who could come.  He was working on his shed at home but was coming but when I told Gale The reaction of all the kids he said just open it.  He was coming home from snowboarding at the time so I put him on speaker phone and opened it.  He was so excited he had to pull his car over. And I had to read the letter to him again.  I then went over to tell Lois, stopped at Rick and Nancys and told them then texted all the kids. I think they were as excited as we were but there is a bit of bittersweetness to as they realize some of their children will have a hard time remembering us after 18 mos. Hopefully we can skype or use facebook to keep in touch. I am still reeling.  I get to go to church and say "yes, we did get our mission call. We're going to Portugal." Wow. I will miss Genevives daily facetime calls. and talking to Breea nearly daily but I know this was meant to be. I get to serve the Lord full time. I hope I come back like Lois.  The best version of my self.