DAY 116 -- Where Do We Want to Serve?

Wow, I just went and checked into the number of days until June 9th.  There are 116.  Even counting Leap Day in February, I am right on schedule.  WOW.

I went to the temple today to pass out names to members of our stake for Stake Temple Week.  We have been challenged to be in the temple for ten hours this week.  It was wonderful.  I just sat waiting for those members of our stake to come and pick up a name.  Few came, but I started at 6 and sat until 8.  It was fun sitting in the temple, reading my scriptures.  I obtained a new appreciation of Jacob 5.  I also chuckled when one of those prophets said that all had been written and he didn't have anything further to say.  Then we have a couple of hundred pages beyond that. 

I keep thinking about having a mission where half the time you would be out looking for food.  I wonder if they would let me take my shot gun and go hunting for big game. If I got a big something, then we could eat for a time, especially if we fasted every other day.  Then we could get more work done, right?  What an interesting mission.

I have thoroughly loved teaching through my 60 years in the kingdom.  I loved teaching to the Young Adults and I know there are missions that would involved teaching to the youth.  But when I think of that, when I realize that the Headquarters of the church is doing all they can do to allow most seniors to go where they want to go, I hesitate to say where we "want" to go.

I mean, there were many witnesses when I was a young missionaries where I was in the right city at the right time to be most effective in serving and finding and converting.  Is that just for younger missionaries?  What if we decide to request a mission and then the Lord tells us that He wanted us elsewhere but we destroyed that by telling him that we "wanted" to go to a different place.

I struggle over that.  Should I just say that we can be used anywhere?  I feel that way, but there are places on the papers that we can say where we want to go.  This is just another thing I want to put in His hands and let Him either tell us where he wants us to go so we can put our preferences, or we just approach our mission call and leave it totally in His hands.  Who knows.  That is one thing that is giving me ulcers, at least right now.  But I am sure it will all work out in His time and to our comfort.  Patience. Where do we want to serve?  Maybe I can take my sling shot, or poison, or a knife, or a steel bow?  (I wonder how Nephi broke his bow that was made of find steel.  I can't wait to ask him.)