+ DAY 17 --- Where Would You Guess?

Last night, Bonnie couldn't sleep for excitement of our coming mission call.  If they have already decided where we are going, then perhaps we shall know this week, and she is excited.  She stayed up late  last night and found Sam and Tessa and kids.  They talked while I peacefully slept. 

They talked about getting the mission call from the mailbox.  Tessa has been going to the mailbox this past week with her camera to record the arrival of the call.  Bonnie has been doing the mailbox shuffle a few days, and has even talked to the postman about our anticipation. 

So in the inner planning abilities of of Bonnie, she is planning on getting it this week.  She discussed it with Tessa how, when, and who would get the envelopes.  As they were talking about picking them up, Daniel, one of the grand kids asked, "Why two envelopes, aren't you going together?"  Bonnie explained that most often the church sends out two calls, one to me and one to her.  Then another grand kid asked, "What if grandpa is called to Korea and you (grandma) are called to Texas?"  Then Daniel spoke up and suggested that grandpa could go to Korea, and Grandma could go to Texas and have her companion be the postman.  She tried to explain how that would not work.  (Then I started thinking what if I don't get one when she does?)

We are holding a contest to see who is going to guess where we will go on our mission.  Each kid and grand kid gets to guess five missions, two countries and one continent.  We are figuring how to grade it so we will have a winner.  Should be fun.  With 340 missions, it is un-likely anyone will guess correctly.

I have been thinking that since I speak a bit of Spanish, they will probably take advantage of that.  But I may be totally off base on that guess too.  So where?  They have already decided, it is just letting us know when and where.  Then we have to go back to work again.  There is much to prepare, store, sell, give to the DI, and try to decide what we can't do without when we return.  Difficult things to figure out.

Tuesday, and they assigned us a location Friday.  Shouldn't we have our call by now? Bon and I are "discussing" when it will come.  Of course we have been doing that for many, many days.  We continue to wait and shuffle.  But it should be within the next few days.