Last Wednesday, Devin, Jessica, and her boyfriend, Cameron, came up from SUU because Devin's call had come in the mail. Around 7:30 pm Devin opened his call and found out he was going to the Spain-Bilbao mission. He leaves July 2nd. He'll spend 3 weeks in the Provo MTC and about 6 weeks in the Madrid MTC. We were so excited about his call. We started calling family to let them know. We also called friends. One of the friends was Landon Nielsen. We found out that Landon also received his call and his family was coming over that night to open his call at 8:15 pm. A great friend at school told us he'd treat our family to dinner at the Dairy Keen. While he was taking our order, Landon called Devin and told him he'd been called to the same mission-Spain, Bilbao. He also was leaving on July 2nd. We were blown away that two best friends would get their calls on the same day to the same mission and enter on the same day. These two guys were also Ward Missionaries and were companions here in our ward. They were co-captains on the swim team. They have been best friends since they were five years old and now they get to serve in the same mission and have similar experiences.
Now we're in the getting passports and other mission stuff mode. We were hoping that Devin would leave in May so that he'd be home in time for Carissa's graduation. But since he's going to miss it, I'm glad that we'll have time for him to get home and do the final preparations.
What are your thoughts about this call? We're psyched.
