Mission Call came!

MISSION CALL CAME !!!! EEEKKK!!

Okay now that is out of my system. I should be up and cleaning the house getting ready for the small gathering of family and friends who are coming to see Cole open his Call. 

I wanted to put down what I was feeling before all the excitement today. Cole called me yesterday while I was at work and I couldn't answer the phone. I called him back about 30 minutes later. He says " mom I was in a car accident." What? no you weren't.. " yes I was I broke my arm!" You aren't serious. This went back and forth for a few minutes than I hear Who I thought was Alex and he said no it was Sebastian and it was both of them in the wreck. So I said you are going to give me a heart attack. He started laughing said just kidding. But guess what I got my Mission Call!! I said I wanted proof. Send me a picture. He said he had to go to work and couldn't send it. 

Crazy kid. 

Going through the Mission process wasn't and easy and flawless and we thought it would be. But it has taught us some lessons on patience and inspiration. Cole actually met in April with the Bishop and then finally met with the Stake President on May 4. Usually they are submitted fairly quickly. But somethings were delayed not sure what and they didn't get submitted until the 20th. During this time we talked as a family on patience. Cole would say Patience is a virtue and it was okay. He did alot of praying. I did alot of praying. Praying that the delay meant that the Lord just wasn't ready for him yet. That when he was ready things would go quickly and everyone would know exactly where he was to go and feel strongly where he was needed to serve. Cole has the heart of Service like very few. His faith has gotten so strong over the last several months as he prepares to go out. What I found out this week as I prayed for him and the guidance of those sending him out he was praying that he would be able to get his call in order to have it announced at graduation. He can't mention it in his speech but wants so badly to share it that he is going to serve the Lord. So this week he has prayed. I have prayed. 

Alex informed everyone that Cole's mission call would be here this week. Which would be a very difficult thing since it was only submitted on the 20th. That would mean it was done in less than a week and mailed out. As Cole took Eve to work he told her he was going home to get his mission call out of the mailbox. What kind of faith he had to have to know it would be there. He didn't doubt that his prayer would be answered. I found this out when I picked Eve up and she said something about it not knowing he really got it. I was in shock. So know he can share with his friends and classmates where he is going to serve the Lord. 

Most people have family and maybe church friends. He has invited his group of friends from school. I think there will be more people from school(non members ) than members at our house. 

His list to call last night was 

1. mom

2. Joseph ( best-friend) just got his call

3.his grandma Wynne

4. his dad

I am overwhelmed at the blessing his faith has brought into our family. I have seen as he prepared himself it changing the others in our house  myself included. I can't wait to see where he will go. Someone suggested he opens it in private or with just family like mom and siblings first in case he is disappointed. He said nah I won't be disappointed wherever I go. 

Looking back over this process you can see that it was very much in God's hands. The process didn't go as we thought it would but you could see that in the end it was because the place where he was to go wasn't ready for him yet. His call came faster than anyone's around here has come. This confirms that our prayers were heard and that it is all about in God's time. They call the Missionaries by divine inspiration and his call will be very much that way for him. Where ever He is sent he will be an amazing servant of God. 

This is the reason I know our lives are being blessed with so many things right now. These sit here on a daily basis and are used on a daily basis. Something we have learned to make a habit and can tell a difference when we don't do it.