When we put in our mission papers in January, we signed up for one year, so we were pretty confident that we would be called to serve in the good old USA.....even our stake president thought so as we met with him. He reviewed the locations where other seniors in our stake were serving for a year or less. So in our minds, we'd already loaded up the back of our Yukon so we could drive there when the call came. When we got all the family together on Thursday night, January 30, 2014 (via internet and home), we had all the grand kiddies and adults join in guessing where we might go. We got some very thoughtful guesses and reasons why. None of those foreign places mentioned seemed right.....only the USA spots!!! When we opened the call and Celia read the location, we were both dumbfounded. Emma (Sean's oldest) had guessed England, so she won the 'raffle'! In fact, our home base was to be Birmingham (which is in the area called the Midlands shown in the UK map in yellow). Suddenly, panic set in as the Yukon load of stuff was immediately whittled down to two suitcases each. We were asked to serve as Perpetual Education Fund Missionaries (PEF) which we later learned was to be called Self Reliance Services which included PEF, Employment and Self-employment.
WHAT A SURPRISE!!!
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