Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Called to Serve

The long awaited mission call has arrived.  The weeks of paperwork and waiting are now over.  The postman delivered the fateful envelope shortly after noon and just by coincidence (or was it?) his Mom called him just as he was opening the mailbox to see that it had arrived.  He decided to wait several hours to gather his friends and family to share in its opening so it became an afternoon filled with excitement, anticipation and anxiety.  It was an afternoon filled with staring at that envelope the held the key to the next two years of his life.  Where would he serve?  Would it mean a new language?  Would there be indoor plumbing? When would he leave?  So many questions and the answers were all in that innocent looking plain white envelope.

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