Well another day has bit the dust, and another shuffle or dance toward the mailbox has resulted in failure. If we were assigned last Friday, we try to imagine what our call has to go through before it is mailed to us. Questions....
We read an article in the Ensign about Youth Centers, Young Adult Centers, or whatever you call them. That would be wonderful if they would let us work with a youth center. Of course anything else, would also be wonderful. (Maybe it is taking so long to prepare us to be excited about digging weeds from a temple parking lot for our mission, or being enthused about ANYTHING?)
We experienced another miracle yesterday. We went to the eye doctor, and he spend about three hours with us, then charged us practically nothing. He was trying to help us in the effort to go on a mission. There are so many who are showing us compassion and helping us be ready.
No, we are not depressed, just disappointed. But the time is coming I am sure. Hopefully we can get out into the mission field before Thanksgiving. Yesterday, Wednesday, my nephew's parents received their mission call. Wonderful for them. Senior missionaries do get their calls on Wednesday, just not us.
Today I am right now writing the 400th posting on this blog.
So, we wait again. Whenever we go anywhere, everyone asks if we received our call. They are just being interested in us and our destination, showing compassion to us. We just answer in the negative and with a smile tell how excited we are. That is repeated over and over again every day. Maybe this is our mission, being cheerful, excited and answering countless people asking about our mission.
My excitement is still alive and well, it is just not too vibrant these days. It will require a resurrection when those envelopes come in the mail. This is just a "waiting period" we are privileged to experience and learn from.
I had a night full of depressing dreams last night. Over and over I woke up lamenting experiences, ideas, and negative concepts. I crawled out of bed, wishing I could stay there. So my challenge today is to generate joy, anticipation, excitement about what is coming one day, and live the "as if" principle.
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