Getting closer, I hope.

This last Wednesday, January 26, I received an email from one of the counselors in the Hong Kong Temple Presidency inviting us to serve in the Hong Kong China Temple. I emailed him back that our papers had already been submitted the first of January and that we were currently waiting to receive our call. I also mentioned that we would love to serve in the Hong Kong Temple, but that we had not indicated any mission preference in our application.

His email back to me that same Wednesday was curious. He said they just got word back from Salt Lake that we had already been assigned to another mission. He stated that would be "their loss, and another's gain", and "that we would probably find out soon where we had been assigned and when we would leave".

Needless to say, we have been checking the mail with renewed anticipation.

This past Friday, the 28th of January we were in the Vancouver Costco and crossed paths with friends from the Alpine Heights Ward where we had attended prior to moving to Cathlamet. They recently had returned from their mission, the Salt Lake City, Temple Square Mission, where he had served as one of the Counselors in the Mission Presidency. Apparently his assignment was to help identify and suggest Senior Couples from the application pool to serve in their mission. All the other "departments" would do the same, and names and suggestions were then submitted to the General Authorities for final approval/ratification.

My guess is that the information given the Hong Kong Temple Presidency, that we had already been assigned, might be the first round, pending ratification by a member of the 12 apostles.

Maybe we will know more this Friday. We had received our last call to the West Virginia Mission on a Friday, so we'll see.

Checking the mail every day!

Well, we are anxiously waiting to receive our mission calls from Salt Lake. We had our interview with the Stake President, President Bolen of the Longview, Washington Stake on Sunday the 2nd of January. He "pushed the button" on our application papers on Monday, and we received a confirmation email from Salt Lake that they had received our papers on Tuesday the 4th of January. President Bolen said we would probably hear something back in 2 weeks. The confirmation email said it could take from 2 to 6 weeks. It has been 3 weeks now, and we are not taking any chances. We are checking the mail every day!!!