DAY 40 -- What Should I Do With My Fishing Pole?

Today is May 1.  Another new month starts after 30 days of April.  It is amazing how fast/slow these months, these weeks fly away.  We only have forty days until we will have been married for 40 years. That is our Mission day.  I would assume that we will have our call by then and know where we are going.

May is going to be a busy month.  With the ending of school, many of my grand children will have special graduations, programs, plays, etc.  Since we won't be around for next years, and other things, we are going to try to hit as many as we can.

We still have many things to decide, but without our call, without knowing where we will be going, it is hard to make those decisions.  We don't know what to do with our car.  Should we sell it?  Should we let someone in our family use it until we get back?  Will we be needing it if we go to a place where we could drive and would need a car.

How about our storage unit?  Should we sell it all? (The stuff within it?)  What should we keep and continue to pay for our storage unit?  What should I do with my fishing pole?  My basketball?  My coin collectioin?  My University of Utah hats?  Should we get an Ipod, a laptop, or what?  Do we need something like that?  Will we go some place where we may not need to wear a coat or jacket?  (That was the case when I served in Mexico a million years ago.)  Or will we go to Siberia where we need layers upon layers to keep moderately warm?

We are reading together "Preach My Gospel" which we should have done long ago, but we are into it now.  We are continuing to read the BOM and are just finishing up the war chapters.  We will be finishing it up again in June.

I paused today and wondered where we will be in a few months?  What will we be doing?  Will we be in some mission home, a temple somewhere, or working the Perpetual Education Fund?  There are so many possibilities.  I don't give much value to where we said we wanted to go since we will go wherever the Brethren tell us to go, with little regard to our listed preferences.

It will be exciting to know where we will be spending the next year and one half.  Any guesses?  We could hold a lottery and see who wins.  I was thinking that with a lottery I may be able to earn that $50,000 I talked about earlier.  But the I realized that a lottery would just take it away, not let us earn money.  My mind is sort of shot, tired, and....