I think it's fitting that my 300th post should be a milestone in our family's history.
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011, our eldest son, Ethan Edward Stewart, received his mission call to serve for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Ethan was in Rexburg (at school), and Pamela was in Wyoming (Star Valley). So Pamela picked Ethan up and drove to Dubois.
Benjamin was happy to see Ethan!
Guesses everyone! We all wrote down where we thought he would go--or in my case: 4 guesses!
Ethan took time to let Ben play with his iPod (or as Benjamin calls it--"my"Pod. (Ethan really wasn't taking time out, he was just waiting for Grandma & Grandpa Stewart to come over & Grandma & Grandpa Carter to get to Aunt Laurie's house so we could Skype!)
Ethan slowly, slowly,
Slowly opened the envelop.
I guess we waited this long--we can wait a little longer!
And as he starts to read the letter, Callum sneaks behind him trying to read ahead. Ethan quickly put a stop to that!
Dear Elder Stewart,
You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the
California Ventura Mission!
! He will be reporting to the MTC on Aug. 3rd. Although it looks like Brienna is taking pictures, she is actually holding her iPod so my sister, Janna Lee, and her 3 kids back in Pennsylvania could see us (on Skype).
Zane videoed it for us.
And here is my dad, mom, and sister, Laurie.
Here is the letter from our prophet, Pres. Thomas S. Monson.
He was so excited--he is texting, talking on the phone, and had just turned from the computer after posting it on Facebook.
Almost all of my family heard it first hand, except for my sister, Sherrie. She lives in Colorado, but was actually in Wyoming.
My sister, Laurie, turned 50 on June 3rd and was having a fun birthday party. As far as she knew, none of her sisters could make it to Wyoming for her celebration. But my sister, Pamela, planned otherwise. She helped us get to Wyoming! She "kidnapped" me right after Ethan got his call, and after we dropped him back in Rexburg, we drove all the way to Lander, Wyoming! Crazy us!
We told Sherrie she could have went to Laurie's and Skyped with everyone else, but she said she couldn't have kept the rest of the surprise a secret. Laurie was adamant that we call Sherrie to let her know, so Dad said he would take care of it. As soon as they got home, they "called" Sherrie & let her know!
Pamela and I talked the whole trip--and we arrived at my parents about 11:30 pm.
I guess it was the right time, because we saw hundreds of elk and bison, 2 moose, a fox, and probably a wolf (I didn't have Pamela turn around because I wasn't sure what it was). I've never seen that many elk between Jackson and Togwotee Lodge!
