Funny story. I don’t know how this happened, but my son had not been ordained to Elder before he received his mission call! I didn’t realize this until I was scheduling the temple for his first time! This is where it got kind of fun, and once again got to see that if our Heavenly Father wants something to be done it will be done! We only had a very small window of time for him to be able to go to the temple, because the temple was going to be closed for cleaning for two weeks. The stake president had told my son that he should go to the temple as soon as he could after he received his call, and to go as often as he could until he left for his mission. Ok, so we wanted him to go before the temple closed so that he could have the time after it opened to go a couple of more times before he left. That’s where the “fun” came in. In order for him to go to the temple before it closed he had to be interviewed by the bishop and someone form the stake presidency so he could be ordained an Elder. Ordained an elder. Then be interviewed again by the bishop and member of the stake presidency for his temple recommend all in less than a week!
Our bishop and stake president are so wonderful, and between the two of them everything that needed to be done was done all in one day! This is truly the Lord’s work!
This wouldn’t have had to happen if my son was more organized, but then again this was nothing new. Some of you have been blessed with children that are very organized, I wasn’t one of them, and I think that is the norm. Even though they are old enough to be on their own, it is always a good idea for us to still be their mommies and make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be.
Mickayeen was the opposite of organized but, that kid could work! You should be proud of that! Some youth may be organized.. but they can’t work. I’d rather have a kid that can work!
Good work.