Treading Water

Well, here we sit in Genola — two missionaries without a mission!  We finished our training at the MTC on Wednesday and came home that night.  Mission travel informs us that they got word from the Swedish Consul that he will start looking at the visa requests in June.  We don’t know if that means June 1 or June 30 or which day in between.  Our mission office in Sweden says the people in Sweden have told them that a case worker has been assigned to our request and that usually means things will speed up.  The sad part is, all the young missionaries left for Sweden May 24, right on schedule.  I guess as a senior couple we pose more of a threat or a risk or something. 

We are using the time to get our suitcases packed and at the proper weight and to finish up some of the things that need to be done around the house.  We couldn’t stand the fact that we weren’t going to have a garden this summer so Robert planted 12 tomato plants Friday morning.  And we are putting the cannas in the ground today.  Other than that we are at our rope’s end.  I suppose we could tract Genola, but I’m certain the full time missionaries would be upset at our horning in on their territory.  Our lives are so thrilling I am not going to post again until we leave.

Go forth to serve