BON JOUR!
See the sign this old dude has on his tray…
Well it finally came…
We’re going to France
Our call is to serve in the Paris France Mission with our specific assignment to work out of Bordeaux as Family and Church History Records Preservation Missionaries. Our understanding is that we will be doing microfilm and digital records preservation plus whatever other assignments the Mission President and other local authorities would like us to do. Our call is for 23 months.
We went over to Laura and Allen’s house Thursday evening to open the envelope. Our daughter, Susan, from California was able to be here with her family. However, it arrived on a date and time when we had planned to be at our grandson's scout award ceremony so we went over to Laura's church with the envelope tucked tightly under my arm then after the Scout thing we went over to Laura's and everyone wrote their guess on a card and put it in a bowl
Then we opened the envelope. We have been called to serve in the Toulouse France Mission and assigned to serve in Bordeaux as Family and Church History Records Preservation Missionaries. Then we read on and found the shocker. We report to the MTC on April 2, 2007... HUH??? Well at least four of the 19 of us guessed France, but I nailed it... Bordeaux. Then as we were driving home JoAnn began to sing “April in Paris”
When we first started seriously thinking about going on a mission, our good friends, Don and Jill Urish, told us that the best kept secret for a perfect mission was in the temple in Cochabamba, Bolivia where they served. Don talked to the Temple President down there and told him about us. He said he would love to have us come down, but that they wouldn't have an opening until April. This was in August and we just didn't want to wait that long. Funny how the Lord works - we now are leaving for our mission to France in April.
Since we do not report to the MTC until 2 April 2007, there must be some time mitigating factors that we don’t yet know about… perhaps waiting for the end of someone else’s mission or perhaps visa considerations or who knows whatever else needs to drop into place before we depart. This gives JoAnn time to enroll in a French class at the community college. We have our vaccinations and passports all lined up and our wonderful niece Jean Woodruff will be staying in our house while we are gone. I told my Department chair at Desert Pines High School where I teach French about the call last Friday, and she said can’t you get them to put it off until the end of May so you can finish the school year… I replied “I don’t think so.”
Records Preservation must be similar to what our dear friends Rod and Barbara Couser did years ago on their mission to New England. We feel like were following in good footsteps.
Here’s a map to give you an idea of where Bordeaux is. There it is on the south-western coast near Spain.
Well it finally came…
We’re going to France
Our call is to serve in the Paris France Mission with our specific assignment to work out of Bordeaux as Family and Church History Records Preservation Missionaries. Our understanding is that we will be doing microfilm and digital records preservation plus whatever other assignments the Mission President and other local authorities would like us to do. Our call is for 23 months.
We went over to Laura and Allen’s house Thursday evening to open the envelope. Our daughter, Susan, from California was able to be here with her family. However, it arrived on a date and time when we had planned to be at our grandson's scout award ceremony so we went over to Laura's church with the envelope tucked tightly under my arm then after the Scout thing we went over to Laura's and everyone wrote their guess on a card and put it in a bowl
Then we opened the envelope. We have been called to serve in the Toulouse France Mission and assigned to serve in Bordeaux as Family and Church History Records Preservation Missionaries. Then we read on and found the shocker. We report to the MTC on April 2, 2007... HUH??? Well at least four of the 19 of us guessed France, but I nailed it... Bordeaux. Then as we were driving home JoAnn began to sing “April in Paris”
When we first started seriously thinking about going on a mission, our good friends, Don and Jill Urish, told us that the best kept secret for a perfect mission was in the temple in Cochabamba, Bolivia where they served. Don talked to the Temple President down there and told him about us. He said he would love to have us come down, but that they wouldn't have an opening until April. This was in August and we just didn't want to wait that long. Funny how the Lord works - we now are leaving for our mission to France in April.
Since we do not report to the MTC until 2 April 2007, there must be some time mitigating factors that we don’t yet know about… perhaps waiting for the end of someone else’s mission or perhaps visa considerations or who knows whatever else needs to drop into place before we depart. This gives JoAnn time to enroll in a French class at the community college. We have our vaccinations and passports all lined up and our wonderful niece Jean Woodruff will be staying in our house while we are gone. I told my Department chair at Desert Pines High School where I teach French about the call last Friday, and she said can’t you get them to put it off until the end of May so you can finish the school year… I replied “I don’t think so.”
Records Preservation must be similar to what our dear friends Rod and Barbara Couser did years ago on their mission to New England. We feel like were following in good footsteps.
Here’s a map to give you an idea of where Bordeaux is. There it is on the south-western coast near Spain.
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