My Daughter

It's August. A plan has been in motion for over a year now. The plan became more real in December and then in March and then again in May...and then the work began and then it got done and now it's time. A year goes very fast when you are working and preparing and thinking and planning. The "button" gets pressed this week...YES, Lainey is going on a mission.
She was baptised by her older brother the day she turned 8, she got her patriarchal blessing the day she turned 16 and now planning as she does, 100 days before she turns 21 to send her mission papers in to be processed and her date of availabiltiy is the day she turns 21.
I guess her PLANNING started a long time ago when her brothers served the Lord, she heard their stories and her fathers and she started the thinking part. The preparing part is on going, both spiritually and temporally.
And last summer in the middle of July she came down one day and told us that she knows she is to serve a mission and wants to go and is planning for that time.
A mission is more than the 18 months or 2 years you serve- there is so much more that goes into it.
It's gone so fast, this year has, she now nearly 21, a junior in college, lived out on her own for 2 years, has had a job for 4 years and is an amazing young woman. I am so proud of the woman she has become and look forward to this next chapter in her life.
I sit in amazement at my children and am proud to be called their Mom.