After awaking one day in March 2015 and feeling like we really needed to go and serve a full-time mission again, we submitted our papers. In June our whole family headed for Lake Norris, Tennessee for a family reunion. We really wanted to have our mission call by then so that we could open it in front of the whole family. But, as we prepared to leave for a few days at Brooke & Chad's home before going to the reunion, we still had not received it. Our wonderful neighbors, Kelly & Jolynn Marcum agreed to watch for it & maybe they could overnight it to us. Well, it finally came, the day before we were ready to leave - so Jolynn scanned it and sent it by email to Brooke. As Brooke didn't want to see & read it while printing it off, her non-member neighbor came over & emailed it to himself and printed it out & gave it to us. So, on Father's Day - June 14, 2015 - we read it to our assembled family at the the Lake House.
We had put in our paperwork that we wanted to serve in the office of the Lyon, France mission. The mission President - Pres. Roney - had also requested us. But, until the actual paperwork comes, you just never know. Roger was especially hopeful because this is the same mission he served in as a young 19 year old Elder. We were thrilled when we read we were, indeed, being called to Lyon France !
We were so thrilled to be able to open it in front of our entire family ! Especially knowing that next year or possibly the next - at least 2 of our grandsons will be doing the same thing !
So, we are off !! We speak in our ward and will be set apart on Sunday, August 16, 2015. We enter the MTC on Monday, Aug. 17, 2015 for one week of Preach My Gospel training and one week of actual office training. Then we board the plane on Monday, Aug. 31, 2017.
We consider it such a privilege to serve the Lord for 18 months in France. We feel that we have been so blessed and given so much in our lives, that it is a small way for us to try and give back.
LYON - FRANCE ...
HERE WE COME !
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