Can you even begin to feel the excitement that Bonnie and I feel knowing that within a few days, we will receive our mission call that we have been waiting for, for about forty years? When we were married, I had been home from my mission for about 18 months. I shared with Bonnie then that one day we needed to serve a mission together. It hasn't been talked about for many years. It hasn't been real for about thirty years.
Try to imagine how much excitement it would be to know that soon you would be receiving a mission call to serve with your best friend for eighteen months. Bonnie has always believed that the planning and preparing for an event is much more exciting than the actual event itself. I must admit that the discussions, the dreaming together, the talking about possible locations, and the organizing has been thoroughly enjoyable. I don't know if I will ever say that the preparations are more enjoyable than the actual doing however. I don't believe Bonnie will admit after we get out there that the preparation was as enjoyable as the mission. But we shall see.
Once again, as I admitted in an earlier blog, I am humbled to realize that our future eighteen months is being determined, perhaps even today. It is not that it is being determined, it is the fact that it is being influenced by Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ. An apostle is going to receive that revelation directing us where we shall be serving in the Kingdom. Though it is hard to continue waiting until we know that decision, it is awe inspiring where it comes from and where it originated from.
As we get closer to our mission, I can't help but remember the many miracles that have happened in our life to get us to this point. In talking with other senior couples, those preparing and those who are already out serving, I know that Father is performing many miracles for those who desire to serve.
Once again I recognize that Prophet Thomas Monson declared that the church needs thousands of more senior missionaries. Because of that call from our prophet, I am sure that many other senior couples are experiencing miracles to pave the way so they too, can serve. No unhallowed hand can stop this work....
Nothing can stop the work, and He needs "our hands" to further the work. I am so grateful to offer these two arthritic hands to use any way he wants.
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