DAY 25 -- Another Sign it is getting Closer

Last night, as I was leaving work, one of my co workers asked if I had heard anything.  I replied that I had not. He let forth with a string of expletives.  I guess that is how some react to speed bumps in their life.  Not me.

Last night tickets were given to schools to go to a free ball game pitting the U of U against the UVU baseball team.  Since Bonnie loves baseball, we went.  (Let me say here that it was not as painful as that "opera" we went to about a week ago.)  Somewhere in about the seventh inning, our bishop called.  (In case you were wondering the U won, destroying the 33 game winning streak that UVU had going.  Felt sorry for them, but overjoyed for my Utes.)

He reported he was sitting in front of his computer screen and just verified with the Headquarters that ALL WAS DONE on our papers and they are now in the hands of our stake president.  (I must apologize to him for putting all the  blame for the wait we have been in.)  I guess that the Headquarters coordinates with the bishop all the "affairs" of an OLD couple serving a mission.  Well last night it was all done and he said that "HE" pushed the button and as of last night in the seventh inning, our papers were in the hands of our stake president.  Our good bishop pushed the button exactly six weeks after we pushed the button to give him the papers.  It takes six weeks, at least in our case, to get them into the hands of the stake president.

So now we wait for our stake president to interview us.  At least as I understand from our bishop, after he checks us out, our battery strength, the level of the oil, the inner rumblings of things in our mind, what happens between our ears, then he will push his button in behalf of our mission papers.

Then I guess it will finally go to the church to decide where we will be assigned, as my bishop calls says.  He says that an apostle will review our papers, check on what our bishop and the headquarters have decided and make the final decision. And I am certainly not going to try to decide how soon all of that will happen.  It could be another six weeks, or six days, or six months.  I don't know.

Anyway, it is nice to know that progress is being made on "our assignment" and where we will be going.  This brings it a bit closer to reality in my mind at least.  We are still in the  "waiting" mode and striving to be patient until the Lord calls.