Sunday, November 29, 2009

Opening the Call


This was at our opening party. You can tell from the look on his face that he was just so excited.
OK, so I've decided that until Ben leaves, I'll be making new posts on Sunday. Not much is happening right now, except for the shopping, and boy is that more than I expected. All the little things. Twin bedsheets? Anyway the excitement is still there.

Also, you may notice that there may be a few explanations of church terminology and such. That is for all our family and friends that may not be members of our church. If any of you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me. You know where to find me.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Preparations Begin

I think Ben might be a little excited. We went out yesterday and bought a "missionary package". 2 suits, 8 shirts, 5 ties, 2 pairs of shoes. Watch out Pittsburgh, here he comes.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Destination....

It came, it came, it finally came!

Yesterday about noon we all got phone calls from our oldest, Nate. The call was here. Now all we had to do was wait until 7:00 when Ben was inviting everyone (friends and a few neighbors) over for an (opening party). As mentioned earlier I was able to get off work earlier to go home and get stuff ready. Thankfully for my wonderful children, the house was already clean. I just needed to get the food ready. Nate had even cooked dinner for us.

Seven o'clock rolled around and people started arriving. An extremely excited and newly shorne (BTW I also gave Ben a hair cut when I got home. Just call me super mom) Ben greeted them. By 7:10 every one had arrived except Austin S. A phone call was made. He was on his way. How far out you ask? Just a few minutes. No matter how hard we tried to persuade Ben to go ahead and open the envelope, he wouldn't do it until Austin was here.

7:30 finally rolls around, Austin finally gets here, Ben finally opens the envelope and reads "Elder Benjamin Serrano...you have been called...Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh mission (dots added for brevity). The excitement was pal papal. Personally, I was suprised (I thought foreign for sure) then...I don't know how to describe it. It's really the Holy Ghost confirming that that is where he is supposed to go. It was almost like "of course, Pennsylvania. where else would he go".

Language you ask? English. Which is good. Only 3 weeks in the MTC.

Ben can hardly stand it. He's so excited. He wants to start his shopping today. BTW he reports to the Provo MTC on February 3. Now that may be almost 3 months when you think about it, but really with Thanksgiving and Christmas it will only seem like 1 month.

Well, now the fun starts. Keep checking back, I'll keep you posted on all things Pennsylvania.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

No Call Yet

The mail has come and no call today. I thought for sure it would come today. Mostly because it would be the most inconvenient day to have people over to open "the envelope", but the heavens are smiling on me. Ben, I'm sure, is slightly disappointed, but he's very easy going and will take it in stride.

I'll be back on Thursday to give you the good news. We are all very excited.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

In the Mail

We were informed today by our bishop that Ben's papers are at "in the mail" status. We would normally look forward to getting them on Wednesday, but....Wednesday is Veteran's Day and there is no postal service that day. Now the question is.. Will they come Tuesday or Thursday?

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The Papers Are In

Well, last Sunday we were informed by the bishop that Ben's papers are in Salt Lake. We're hoping for a call next week. We have a world map and a USA map on the wall. We all have our guesses posted on the maps.