DAY 0 --- M DAY

One year ago, I started this blog anticipating our serving a mission.  We have done all we can do, and are now waiting for our mission call to come by mail.  It has been about ten weeks since we submitted our papers, and now we just wait.  In preparation of this mission call, we have made and are making many changes in our life so we can serve.  We have seen many miracles through the last 365 days.  We are ready to give our all to Father.

(Note: I just came down the hill from being out in the beauties of nature.  It was fun out there, but there was no Internet.  So I did not post yesterday Day One.  But I keep learning that I am getting almost too old to sleep on the ground.)

Today is our fortieth year being wed.  We celebrate our years together that started out long ago having Elder Robert L. Simpson seal us.  He told us that there were many spirits waiting to come to our family.  Well we have six kids and soon to be 20 grand kids.  I guess that can be the meaning of "many."  We are ready to start on the road to another forty years.

NO, no mission call yet.  I felt sure that we would get it this week, but it hasn't showed up yet.  There could be many reasons why.  Perhaps someone held up the post man taking it before he could deliver it.  Perhaps it was delivered to the wrong place.  Perhaps it was addressed to our future location?  Perhaps you received it in your mail box?  Who knows. Perhaps it was just to teach me more about patience.  Or perhaps it is a reason to continue this blog further.

Of course, I would have to write on this blog about the call whenever it come, if it comes.  Bonnie asked me if I should continue writing on this blog, even through we have reached M day, and we are celebrating our forty years together.  Or perhaps everyone is sick of reading the progress and road to our mission. Or perhaps I should keep going while I serve?  I am pondering it, whether to continue.  If anyone has a say about it, a feeling one way or the other, I would certainly like to know your thoughts?

Well, Happy Anniversary and keep waiting for that mission call.