I want to be a missionary now...

Nate had been promising the missionaries that he would take them out to the air traffic control tower at his work. For our family home evening activity this week that is what we did. Elder Stephen's and Elder Calk had dinner at another member's house and when they were done headed to over to our house. In the meantime Natalie taught our family home evening lesson on being a missionary. She read a story from this month's New Era called "Delayed Delivery" by Jacob Fullmer. It is about a young man who in 1979 was trying to decide if he was going to go on a mission or not. He had written 3 letters to one of his friends serving on a mission. The first letter talked about his struggle to decide to go on a mission, the second one talks about when he made up his mind to go, and the third one talked about some experiences he had in his first area. His friend did not receive any of the letters. Fast forward to 30 years in the future and his son is now going through the same thing that he was going through trying to decide if a mission was right for him. And his friend's son is now serving in the same mission that his friend had served in. His friend's son gets to the mission house and receives three old letters that were addressed to his dad. He forwards them onto his dad, who then forwards them onto the original writer of the letter. The son then gets to read his dad's letter's and read first hand about his father's own struggles to go on a mission at the very age that he is. It is a really good story and worth your time reading if you have a chance to do so. Natalie then handed out missionary name tags to each of us and we all told one way that we can be a missionary now. I then related missionary work to air traffic control. An air traffic controller tells the airplanes which way to go while he is searching for a place to land. Missionaries tell people about the gospel who are looking for a way to Christ.

We then took the missionaries out to the tower to have a look around. Nate showed them all of the cool equipment. From there you can see Mt. McKinley (or the Denali mountain as it is called here). We got to see a C1-17 practice landing and taking off and all together had a great time just visiting with the missionaries. I discovered that Elder Calk is from South Carolina which is were my little brother served a mission although he didn't live in the same mission area. I really like having the missionaries over to my house and around my kids. And the kids really love interacting with them. As a matter of fact Ella wouldn't stop talking to them. I like how the missionaries seem to care about my family and how their standard's are a shining example to my family. I want to be a missionary now.Back Row-Left to Right: Nichole, Elder Stephens, Elder Calk, Nate

Front Row- Left to Right: Ella, Tyler, Natalie

I am so disappointed that I lost my little camera. I had to take pictures with my phone and it doesn't take the best picture's. Which bothers me being a photographer and all.