The Adventure Begins

Elder and Sister Blackwell

Today is January 1, 2013 and this is the magical year that we will serve a mission!  In just  48 days we will check in the  MTC in Provo and begin our training.  We are very excited and are in great anticipation of the mission experience.  For Elder Blackwell it will be his second mission, as he served his first mission in the southwest of England, from 1969 to 1971.  For Sister Blackwell, it will be her first mission.  People have recently been asking us when we decided to go on a mission.  We chuckled and had to think.  Before we were even married we talked about serving a mission together.  We always had that goal in mind.  We can hardly believe that we are to that point in our life, as time passes so quickly.