Mission Call Yesterday!!!!!

Mission call came yesterday-- ***pretend my post is from yesterday
yeah. Where is he going-- I don't know- we all kind of have our thoughts. I would personally love for him to go to Thailand, because when I was little we were stationed there with my dad when he served in the Army & I think it would be cool for Val & I to get to go pick him up when he is done serving his mission. But, I was reminded that the church is probably not sending missionaries there right now because it is not the safest place. I agree. alot of people have mentioned that they think he is going to serve an Asian mission--?? we'll see. This was our 1st attempt at checking the mail-- no mail. Ha ha- it was only like 10:40, it was my suggestion, because I wanted to make sure yesterdays mail was really gone.

This is Val, he actually has the envelope in his hand- but he is totally being a "stinker" and wont show me his cute face. He thinks I am a camera freak- which really I am not even a 1/10th as bad as most mothers.

O.k. so the "boys" have this theory or myth that if the postage is over $1.58 you are going out of the states. So, this is what we had staring us in the face from 12:05 until Val actually opened the call at 5:30 or close to it. We we waiting for one of his leaders to get here. I wanted to take the envelope & run in my room, lock the door & open it. I would have re-sealed it, I promised. O.k. that would have totally been so not cool of me to do.

I felt bad, but when you are waiting for people to show that are very important in your life-- you need to wait. My brother Russ is the only family I have here & we really needed to wait for him. He was only like 5 min. late-- now Cody Hatch--that might have been partially my fault do to bad directions. But it was worth it. so we had everyone there and the envelope please.....

Seriously, I thought he was totally messing with us when he read Nicaragua- because one of his best friends is going there too. He was so totally excited- I loved watching his face, as he read his name- Elder Valentin Martinez Galvan III

Troy, Dalton, Val, Kevin & Blake (blake also going to Nicaragua)

So, here is the interesting thing about Val's call. He doesn't report to the MTC until Sept 29th. It is a ways off, so I do have a good friend that reminded me that I am lucky to have the EXTRA time to spend with my only boy. (thank you Kim Pierce) I am lucky, because he is a special young man & the people of Nicaragua are lucky to have him too. so, i will keep you posted.