DAY 47 --- What Could Prevent This Mission

What could get in the way of our serving a mission?  What event, circumstance, fact, mysterious cloud, or pebble could prevent us from serving a mission?  We have the desire, we have filled out the papers, we have done all we think we need to do to serve a mission, now we wait.  But as we wait, these thoughts keep going through my mind.

I guess if one of us woke up one morning with a very serious health problem that would require chemo therapy, amputation of a foot, mental incarceration, a ingrown toe nail, or the loss of an eyeball, or something like that, it would probably preclude us from serving. 

Of course if the Stake President (Assuming one day we will talk with him) finds one of us unfit for a myriad of reasons, I guess that would put our mission off for a time, or forever.  If he felt in his interview that there was another reasons why we should not serve right now, that would also delay or eliminate our mission. 

I guess another reason to delay or eliminate our mission would be the lack of support of others.  You see, we will be serving this mission presenting the opportunity to others to receive blessings from Father for supporting Bonnie and I on a mission.  (We are firm believers of the blessings of supporting missionaries.)  If for some reasons the funds were not available, then we would not serve.

It is hard to imagine the reasons that would prevent us from going on a mission at this point.  We have prepared, anticipated it, and dreamed about it for about forty years.  We really got serious last June and set this blog, goals, and dreaming on schedule to do it now.  We have been praying about it for about that long and feel that we need to go and do His will somewhere.  Our bishop blessed Bonnie with a blessing a while ago, and said that we were going to go.  We have almost all things ready so we can go.

What could get in the way of us serving a mission?  It is very difficult to imagine anything that would really prevent us from going.  I guess the bottom line, the real ultimate reason would be if Father directed us, inspired us that now is not the time to go, for His reasons, then we would not serve.  Other than that, let's get the President in a position so he can PUSH THE BUTTON and get our papers into Church Headquarters.