Our summer has been back-to-back activities and wall-to-wall grandkids since June 1, when we moved to a mountain cabin in Donnelly for the season. We picked up Erin (16) in Cedar City en route, who had declared it her turn to spend the summer with us. We've had so much fun we'll hate to see her go back home. She landed a job at Paul's grocery in McCall her first week and has saved enough money for something a little better than a clunker, which was her goal.
We're at the "should we? shouldn't we" phase of deciding to go on a mission. There are six huge reasons not to go: our grands. They're everything to us. Nic is playing Rugby for SUU -- his first year at college. Our Hunter lost some front teeth.
There's basically only one reason to go: We feel a tugging that's bigger than we are. We're overly blessed and, as Richard puts it, "God didn't give us good health for no reason." The Prophet has promised us that the Lord will bless our families while we serve. We trust that.
Yesterday we asked our Bishop to give us access to the online mission applications. We completed questionnaires, uploaded pictures and documents, and made copies of the medical forms for doctors and dentists. We think it will take awhile to move out of our house and get a proper tenant. We considered just locking it up but we need the tax deduction of a rental.
The next few blogs will be to journalize our decision-making process and keep track of our "to-do" lists.
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| This is the downloaded photo attached to our application. Jara was in it and we Photo-shopped her out. |
