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I got a call from a Sister Missionary at the Church Employment Center in Am. Fork last week (we were on vacation) telling me that they had been sent my mission papers as a possible missionary for them and would I call her. I was caught completely off guard but was interested in what she had to say so I called back yesterday morning and she wanted me to come in and talk about serving a mission there. I went in at 10:30 a.m. and we talked until 12:30. I wasn't very interested in working in an office as a mission, especially compared to the way I absolutely loved serving at the MTC. As I have prayed about it I am trying to tell whether I have a bad feeling about it just because I don't want to do it or if the Lord is saying it is not the right thing to do. I have thought of the song "I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go" and wondered if this is one of those times when I should just do it whether I want to or not.

I finally agreed to try it for a month and see how I felt about it but now I'm thinking I don't even want to do that. My thought is that I really loved my MTC mission and was really good at it, so wouldn't it be better to do something I'm good at rather than trying to learn something that I'm not good at? It's not as if the Church is calling me to that mission. They just sent the papers there as an option since they rejected my initial application to serve in the 12 step program. There are more details to all of this but I don't want to go in to it all right now (this post is long enough already) Suffice it to say I am in a quandary. I wish I could know what the will of the Lord is in all this. Then again maybe He doesn't care where I serve, just that I DO serve. I will have to pray about this more.

Our vacation with Joe and Eileen was great. It went way too fast. They were so much fun to go with and we saw an incredible show, the Cirque De Soliel - O. We also did a LOT of walking around the at the Belaggio and the motel where we were staying (can't remember the name of it.... my memory is so bad sometimes) We ate some really good meals, some expensive and some at the local Denny's and Ihop to save money. I love eating out! We also visited my Uncle John and Aunt Alta and also Uncle Dick and Aunt Marilyn who were overjoyed to have us come. I'm sorry we haven't visited them when we went to St. George before. They were very happy to have some company. Their children all live away from Utah so they are lonely, I guess. Anyway, the whole vacation was wonderful (and no fibro pain at all)

Well that's all for now.