El Salvador!

We finally opened Josh call tonight!  He is going to be a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the El Salvador San Salvador mission!  He will be speaking Spanish, and he will report on late January.

This is wonderful!  I had all my friends dial up my siblings (that were in MST or PST) and Bruce's siblings on cell phones.  It must have been chaotic over the phone, but I wanted all of them to hear.  I can't believe he will be speaking Spanish.  What a blessing!

Out of the nearly 100 guesses, nobody guessed El Salvador, so we don't have to give away a jug of apple cider.  Ha ha

The time has come...

The call has arrived.  We have a letter sized envelope addressed to Elder Joshua Bruce Holmstead from the Office of the First Presidency sitting in our kitchen.  That is amazing!!

We will be opening Josh's mission call tomorrow night - Friday - after the local college football game.  Please come to our house, one and all, and join us!

Mission Call on its way

We got word that the call is coming in the mail!  It is likely it will arrive in our mailbox on Thursday morning.  Unfortunately, Josh is in Rexburg, and still trying to figure out his classes, so he won't be here until probably Friday night or Saturday.  Bruce has already said he would steam it open.  I don't know I can talk him out of it.  Ha ha  I've updated the predictions list on the last blog - there were 97 guesses at last count, with somewhere North America (which includes Mexico and Central America) having the most votes.  Very fun stuff!!