You know that mission preparations are officially under way when Spencer shows up to church with a short haircut and suit! We had to take his official picture, complete with missionary haircut, before he could submit his mission paperwork. It was a long 4 weeks waiting for that envelope to arrive, but Spencer returned home from lawn mowing with the envelope in hand. AHHHHH!!! We had to wait for Sunday to open the letter (since he had prom on Saturday night), and it was a long wait. But totally worth it! We had a huge group turn out to watch him open his mission call, and it was so awesome to hear the news we'd been so anxiously awaiting. "Dear Elder Carlson: 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 Pennsylvania Philadelphia Mission...." What a wonderful and exciting day! And to hear that he was going to be speaking English (his #1 wish) AND going to the same mission as Ethan...well, it was just shocking and exciting and awesome.
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