I Guess He's Grown a Foot or Two....

Because my little Brother is going on a Mission.

On May 20th David's mission call came in. Normally you get the envelope in the mail on a Thursday. But Thursday had come and gone with nothing for Dave, so we were all thinking it was going to be another week of waiting before he got it. But then, very surprisingly, there it was in the mail on Friday.

We all went out and got some Mexican food from "hot burrito" that night and talked/joked about where we all thought Dave would be going. Todd was confident (cocky even) that he was going to be called to Ohio. I was hoping that it was somewhere foreign but nothing too nuts. Either that or somewhere in the southern states. I think David was just praying it wasn't Idaho or Utah! You could tell he was feeling quite nervous about the whole thing. Makenna kept teasing that she was going to sneak the envelope and open it up before him...(I was grateful that really didn't happen....would not have been pretty!)

Once we were back from dinner we got all the family members on the phone(s) and everyone listened in while he opened the envelope and began reading out loud his mission call.

I think we were all quite surprised when he announced Culiacan, Mexico. (none were as surprised as my mom....see the picture below!)

Everyone was immediately very excited for him. I think there was a long moment of shock and surprise for Dave. I can only imagine how crazy and overwhelming it is to find out where you are going to spending the next 2 years of your life. Pa and Damo had a good time teasing Dave and trying to look up everything scary and intimidating about Culiacan (any of you that know Pa are not surprised by this at all). But we are all excited for Dave and he is happy and excited to serve the people of Mexico.

It is weird to think that in 2 years he will come back older, wiser, matured, rattling off everything in Spanish and probably thinking that "hot burrito" is only slightly better than Taco Bell after living 2 years on all the great Mexican food he will be fed while he is there.

And Makenna is just excited that he gets to go on a Mission where Dora lives!

Congrats Dave! We love you!