The last week has found me on line doing some research.  Most of the research has been reading blogs from others who either are serving, or have served, full time Senior Couple Missions.  It has been very rewarding in reading of their experiences and helps increase my desire and excitement about going.   Reading about others' experiences is a great way to figure out what we might expect and how we can best serve.

We have now received our instructions from our actual Mission and have been assigned a local Branch (congregation) to attend.  It is across the street from where we will be living and is made up of other missionaries who will be serving in the same Mission.  One interesting side note is that also within this particular Branch are several young elders who are also serving in our Mission.  We have already been given the name of one of these young elders who is  a friend of a couple we know in our Ward in Arizona.  Once we get to the Mission we will also receive two weeks of training before we receive our assigned work place.  I try not to get my hopes up too high as to what area I would like to be assigned so that I don't jinx the assignment. 

Five weeks from now we will begin our training at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, UT for five days.  It seems like it is so far away before we start and I fear once we start that our eighteen months will go by so fast and we won't be ready to go home.  Time is precious and I think as we get older we can either find ways to use our time in a productive and meaningful way, or we can waste it and be sorry that we haven't made the world a little better place.   Hopefully, through this mission and other endeavors, we will be in the former group.