DAY 80 -- Working Toward The Realization of this Dream

Well, needle prick by shot, by test, by evaluation, we are getting ready to go on our mission.  I guess it takes all that is being done to us.  I would assume they should check how often we go to the temple, how often we read our scriptures, how often we do our home teaching, how often we pray, and how often we even think of our mission.  All those things prepare us to go and serve. 

Physical health is an important preparation.  They don't want us spending our time in the hospital in foreign lands I would presume.  They don't want us being sick and afflicted, or suffering from inadequate medical attention when we are in a land that doesn't have phones, cars, transportation, or even nurses.

(When I was in Mexico, I acquired hepatitus.  I was in a small "clinic" and a "nurse" came into me and said she was just trained to be a nurse the night before, having about thirty minutes of training.  She promptly tried to stuff into my arm a IV, but after twenty minutes of "searching" in my arm, making it bleed all over the floor, she gave up.) I guess the Headquarters don't want us to have a similar experience, for those of old age, such as me,  may just die from such an experience, at least the shock would give me pause.

We are still on track to have our papers ready to submit in the first of April.  I believe we can still be ready for that.  There is so much to do to prepare to even be ready to submit our papers, but we are slowly approaching the finish line.  At last the finish line to submit papers.

Then I hear it will be four weeks after that.  So in about half of that 80 days mentioned at the top of this post, we will have our call.  That is barring any other road blocks, spiders in the wind shield, missed PSA tests that some doctor forgot to do, or anything else that will slow things down.  At least we can do all we need to do to be able.  Then we wait and see what others do, if they do, and when they do.

We are still excited.  There are times when we are sitting there, and almost break out laughing with joy, anticipating the upcoming call from our Savior.  Who cares about debt, obstacles, so many things to do, and the last of that $50,000 that I never did find under any rock or at the end of a rainbow.  We will be as ready as we can be in 80 days.