Preparing to go on a full time Senior Couples Mission is like getting ready to get baptized, or getting married, or a hundred other major events in your life resulting in a myriad of problems, or setbacks or other feelings of doubt or other issues.  Now that we have made the major decision to serve a Mission and our making our preparations to go for an extended period of time.  We have had our share of these problems ranging from packing and moving out of one home mostly by ourselves so that it could be rented, to having to work diligently at being more patient with one another, to children who continue to struggle with their own problems which recently have increased, to spending a week with about 25 family members for a long anticipated vacation, to having a two year old jump off a table and break his elbow.

Lest you think that we are complaining about all these things, in actuality they become a testament we are doing the right thing by going to serve a Mission.  These problems are best described as minor and for our learning.  We expect to have a great time serving, but we know that all of our problems won't magically go away.  However, we also know that our family and friends and new friends and those whom we will be serving will be blessed because we have made the decision to serve.  Like only gets better when we find joy in serving others.