Opening the Call

What a RED letter day in our family! We were expecting the call on Wednesday June 5th, but it didn't come. Then Thursday... it still didn't come. We had pretty much resigned ourselves to waiting until next week. Then on Friday, June 7th, I took a small detour home from school and thought to myself, "I'll just stop by the mail box. The call won't be there, but you know. I am here." And there it was! I was so tempted to open it right then and there, but of course I didn't. I pulled out my cell phone and called Mom as quickly as I could. I was so excited, she could hardly understand me. Finally I was able to convey to her that the call was finally here!! We gathered our family and opened the call later that night. Mom had a sneaky trick she'd picked up from other people in the stake where you can tell if the call is foreign or stateside by the postage amount. Their postage was $2.52, which we couldn't decide if it was high enough for a foreign mission or low enough to be a stateside mission. We thought, since there is two people going and therefore two mission calls, that it was likely stateside. Mom was a little disappointed, I think. She was really hoping for a foreign call... Then, the moment finally came. Dad opened the call and read, "You are hereby called to served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Ukraine, Donetsk Mission. Your primary assignment is to labor as a member and leader support missionary." I was sitting on the floor, but had I been sitting on a chair I would have fallen off it. In all my wildest dreams, I never thought they would have been called there. My first thought was honestly, where is that?! Lol. We looked it up on a map and read all through their instructions. Mom and Dad were so thrilled. It certainly wasn't what they were expecting, but it was a perfect mission call for them.