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In all of living have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
~Gordon B. Hinkley







Sunday, September 2, 2012

I have a missionary!














Elder Justin Robert Miller,
You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Argentina Mendoza Mission. It is anticipated that you will serve for a period of 24 months.
You should report to the Provo Missionary Training Center on Wednesday, December 12, 2012. You will prepare to preach the gospel in the Spanish language.
Oh my gosh, I am soooo excited!I can't believe that my boy is going to Argentina!
I have to say that when Justin was opening his call the anticipation was killing me. It came and he was going to open it that night when we were all home. At least that was the plan;)
Justin seemed pretty calm but it just kept staring at us and Kenz happened to be home. I was dying. It sat there for about 10 or 15 minutes. We discussed steaming it open so the boys wouldn't know but then he finally decided to just open it without the brothers and hope they didn't care. Of course Kenz and I were encouraging him to open it, "but its your choice". Wahoo, he finally decided to do it. He pulled out the papers and looked and looked and still wasn't seeing where he was going. He did see the papers for a passport application and then he flipped through the book and said "well, I can tell you I'm going to Argentina."
  There was a map of his area in the book.

  I finally picked up the envelope and looked inside and there was the cover letter from President Monson saying he had been called and where. We were all so excited.
The funny thing was that just the night before at dinner we were talking about where he could possibly go and Robert said "you know I haven't heard of anyone going to Argentina, do they even send missionaries there?" We all laughed and I pointed out that is where Hayden Summers (my best friend in the whole worlds son) is. Also another friends son just got back from there. Turns out there are about 7 missions in Argentina. Ha! We had a piece of paper from the sunday before that we all wrote guesses on, and the winner was Bridger. His guess was The Netherlands, or Argentina. I'm not sure how the 2 correlate but whatever, he still won. I thought he would be Spanish speaking but was sure he was going to stay in the states. Guess I was wrong on that one. We are all super excited for him and now the work of getting him ready begins. We have 101 days!
  Bring it on!
Oh and don't worry, I already started a missionary board on pinterest and also sent in my request to join the missionary moms website for the Mendoza mission:)
That's all!

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