Called to Serve

One of the disadvantages to living where we live is that we never see missionaries. I've never seen them in our ward and have never seen a sign up sheet to have them for dinner. When we were in Provo we would at least them walking as we drove past the MTC but now we never see them at all. A couple weeks ago we decided to teach the kids a little about missionaries and what they look like and do. We put together a little package to send to Jared's cousin Chelsea that just left on her misson. Jared showed them the pictures from his mission and told them stories about it. They then dressed up as missionaries and looked so cute!

I've had a few people tell me that they believe they were given babies that were good sleepers because Heavenly Father knew they couldn't handle no sleep. So, along those same lines I told Jared that I'm sure our kids would get called somewhere close for their missions because Heavenly Father knows I couldn't handle sending them too far away. I told Mackayla and Bradley that some day they would get to teach the wonderful people of Oregon. Jared then proceeded to try and teach them some Chinese and told them they would probably go to China. I guess Jared didn't buy that theory. :)

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This video has bad lighting and sound but if you listen carefully you can hear Jacob saying DaDa. He was just babbling but the kids were so excited that he said his first word!