Adren's Mission Call

 It has been a little strange having Adren take total charge of his mission~ which has been great! He has set up all of his appointments with the Bishop and Stake President etc. Once his portal was opened, he began gathering information and filling out all of the information on his own. I never saw any of it. A bit nerve-wracking! But, I trust he is a big boy now and is covering all of his bases. He took his time and just let me know when he needed  Doctor or Dentist appointment or other information he wasn't sure about. It made it not seem real when he told me he had submitted his papers. Are you sure???

I ran into a friend who's son is Adren's friend and has been serving for about four months. When I told her Adren's papers were submitted, she figured we were days away from getting the call! Gulp. I felt so anxious all of the time. I felt teary and my stomach was in knots, not at all how I expected to feel!

Finally the day arrived, February 14th, Valentines Day. Adren said his call had come! It was a Tuesday, and he was scheduled to work that night. So he planned to open it the next night. Ahhhhh!!!

I wasn't sure what to do with myself. I made dinner- some soup. Then I more than doubled it, figuring people would come over. Then I saw Adren posted to everyone to come on over to watch him open his call. I had Jon pick up donuts on his way home. Gulp. 

I had ordered a big world map and a bulletin board so that we could make some guesses. Then I wondered if that was a bad idea. Adren kept saying he was sure he was going to Idaho. "Next year at this time I'll be in Idaho..." We talked about even opening his call privately, then with everyone, no one being the wiser. But he decided he wanted it all to be a first for him. It ended up being fun for friends to guess and stick a pin on the map while everyone gathered.

Quite a crowd of family and friends arrived. Soon enough we had a full house, such a sense of love and support for Adren. It was so sweet. I had the kids manage filming a live for those out of town. Adren opened his call and began reading. 

New York, Syracuse Mission!

He enters home MTC on Monday, May 29th. He starts at the Provo MTC on Wednesday, June 7th.

A neat thing is that Grandma Taylor served in the Rochester, NY mission which has now been combined to be Adren's same mission. His mission President seems so great. I was amazed at how relieved I felt and all the anxiety left me. I think I just wasn't doing well with all of the unknowns. Now that we have a date and a location, I feel so excited for him! Adren says he feels super excited and just can't believe it. Now we start all of the prep work as we inch closer and closer to May 29th! It was sweet to have the Bishop call him up that Sunday to announce where he had been called. He said, "If you want to say goodbye, you have until May!"