DAY 105 -- To Store, To Give, To Keep, To DI?

We talked to the bishop yesterday and made more plans for our mission.  We are going to try to submit the papers in mid-April.  Should have our call by some time in May, I assume.  After a call comes, it could be one month to six months after we receive our call before we actually leave this place.  It all depends upon the urgency of the Mission President, how soon we need to be there.   We both feel there is a place out there where we "need" to go, one that Father has in store.

I told Bonnie that when we receive our call, as we pray about it, think about it, we will receive a confirmation that it is exactly where Father wants us to be.  I remember that confirmation I received as I was called to South East Mexico.  I am sure Father will bless us with that vevelation.

With only three and one half months until we get to M day, things are very much in the air.  We do not know how, when, or where but we do know we will go.  There is much to do done before we go.  I guess we ought to start listing things that we need to do so we can be ready.

After living with our children for quite a time, we have realized that there isn't much of our "prized things"  we have stored that we need to exist.  There are many treasures in our storage unit, and there are many things that we have been saving for years and years.  But when we leave in a few months, those things will remain in the storage unit.  We are almost to the place where those treasures, memorabilia, and mementos are not required to live, to be happy, and to exist.  They are just memories.

When we moved from Perry, we made a list and had our kids take much of our "stuff."  We may have to do that again, getting rid of more and more.  Or just giving our "stuff" that has been collected through forty years of marriage to the Deseret Industries. We will only take necessities on our mission.  It is amazing what things turn into being storage fodder instead of prime possessions when you are where we are.  I am sure that will be true when we leave to serve together. 

We have things in our room where we live as well as another storage room full of things.  We need to get rid of them, either giving them away, or storing them for the next 18 months.  It is interesting what thoughts go through one's mind when looking at a mission in about 100 days.  It is also interesting to consider the mountains of things we need to do, to plan, and to accomplish before we are ready to drive away.