Preparing

July 8, 2010
The house and yard are looking good, the shop storage room is just about finished, the packing has begun. We will be set apart as Missionaries on July 13 at the Stake Center in Alexandria. We will be leaving for Utah on July 23 driving the truck so Mark can keep it while we are away; will spend a week with Mark and family, we will also visit some good friends in Utah while we are there. Dorothy Waddell is one of the people we will see, she and her family brought me into the church. Then on Aug 2 we will enter the MTC, I guess that is the point of no return! W leave the MTC on Aug 12 and fly back to Alexandria, pack the car and head for Nebraska. We are excited, we are aprehensive, we are happy, and we are sad (to leave our children and grandchildren for the next 18 months is going to be hard). However, this is what we have always wanted to do, it is time, and we are going! It will be great!