Hermano y Hermana Cheney

Mom and Joe have received their mission call! This has been a long time coming as they first said they were going to turn in their papers to the Church Mission Office back in August!  Finally, after a few more grandchildren were born, they decided to take the plunge.  They will be serving in Lima, Peru as area auditors for the Northwest South America area.  This includes Venezuela, Ecuador, Columbia, Peru and Bolivia. They will be working with 35 assistant auditors, training and working in the Church office in Lima. Joe knows Spanish from his Guatemala mission but mom will be learning the language in addition to the Church auditing software Lufas. They will be serving for the next 23 months, so much longer than I anticipated. They will train in Salt Lake Feb 5-6 and then check into the Provo Missionary Training Center Feb 9 for only one week before heading to South America!

I am so excited for their adventures ahead.  This couldn't be a more perfect assignment for my mother who loves to travel and see the world!  Although she will be busy working, I am confident she will find time for the 2 of them to have small adventures in the new world where they will be serving.  I find myself wondering what their life will be like.  Not their mission life, but their everyday life.  What will their apartment look like, and their beds, and what kinds of foods will mom learn to prepare.  Will Mark and I get the chance to go and visit?  And then, almost all at once, it hits me that my mom will not be right here.  I haven't lived close to her in a few years now, but it is still really weird to think that I can't just hop on a plane and be in her comfy home in a few hours.  

So very exciting to see my mother go to serve her first mission in her lifetime.  And perhaps not her last!  Love the examples they have shown in putting their lives in order to be able to dedicate 2 years of their lives in a foreign country to the building up of the Kingdom of God.