It all began in October 2010 when our then 7th Ward Bishop, Bryant Ridgway called Karl and I to serve a senior mission; and challenged us to get our affairs in order. Bishop Ridgway opened our lds.org senior mission online application account and we went to work.
March 14, 2011 our official application was electronically sent to Salt Lake. In June our 7th ward was disbanned and Karl and I had not yet received our official call from Salt Lake, but our membership moved to Casa Grande Second Ward. June 28th Salt Lake mailed our packet to Casa Grande, but upon investigation later, we found it was returned as "undeliverable." We waited soooo long...but finally it came.
Quintin was visiting us in Casa Grande and was on his way to the airport to fly to Minnesota for Molly's sister's wedding. While backing out of the driveway, he said to Dad; "Let's check the mail, just in case it has come!" Amazingly...it was there! Putting himself at risk of missing his flight, Quintin and Dad quickly drove to where I was (scrapbooking with Diana Uhrich)...and we opened our call. It was so exciting to have Quintin with us.
