DAY 59 -- First Interview

Well, we had our interview with the bishop.  He had received, reviewed and approved of our papers.  We sat and he questioned whether our teeth would fall out, if we could get out of bed in the morning, and whether we could get  along for 18 months.  Of course those were the joking questions.  Then we got serious and he questioned whether we were worthy of being missionaries, and whether we were really ready to leave life, give it all up and dedicate ourselves to the Lord. 

We said of course, that is what we have been preparing for.  It was a good interview and I believe we passed it.  He now will send our papers to the Stake President for our second interview.  Since Bonnie is going out of town tomorrow morning to go and see her brother in Colorado, I will be a bachelor for a few days.  That means our next interview will be postponed for a few days, I would assume.

The bishop discussed with us our finances.  Since we are getting out of debt and will be totally out of all debt by around June, and since we have wonderful children and sisters, we are going.  Bishop said he would consider it a blessing to his ward to let them help support us serving.  Now of course we   have no way of knowing how much our mission will cost per month until we get the call, but at least we have represented to the Headquarters that we can go wherever the Lord wants us to go, not limiting it because of money.  This is another miracle we are seeing as we approach the next 59 days.  Of course that will bring us to our anniversary, and we should have our call before that date, but who knows.

When young missionaries are called, they are told by the headquarters and also by their bishop and stake president, they are required to write a letter home each week.  Our wonderful bishop said that since we do not have parents that are waiting for our weekly report, we are to consider our bishop as our parents and he will want a weekly report. 

So weekly, we will write:  Dear Bishop/Dad,  each week.  Yes we are excited and we continue to plan our mission.  Many things to do, but progressing daily. 

I would imagine that as we get in the mission field, I may consider keeping this blog going to report our mission.  Have to ponder about that one though.