Getting Ready

Our mission call was to the Texas Lubbock Mission. We were called to be "Records Preservation Specialists." We had no idea what that meant or where Lubbock Texas was. By looking it up on the Internet we found that Lubbock is in the Panhandle of Texas. When we got to the MTC we found that Records Preservation Specialists photograph documents in county courthouses around the United States. There are also specialists around the world. From the time we got our call until we had to report, we had three weeks. In that time we had to get our house ready for our son and his family to move in. That was quite a task since we had been living in our house for over 30 years. During the three-weeks' time, Jen (our daughter-in-law) and Londa Stradling (our son-in-law's sister) had a farewell party for us at Londa's house. It was fun to greet friends and say good-bye for 18 months. We appreciate the Stradlings acting as hosts and Jen for helping with the food and the dress-ups. We've included a few pictures from the party.