We ran away from home today
We have been called to serve as missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to labour in the Mexico Mexico City East Mission, primarily as Self Reliance Services missionaries. In our ongoing discussions with church officials over the past few months, the list of other possible duties we may be assigned include delivering humanitarian aid and being the housing coordinators for the 150+ missionaries currently serving in the mission. The reverse image I saw on my phone when I took this selfie of us in the Lethbridge airport (YQL) sums up our willingness to serve wherever we can help - joy, brilliantly glowing joy! Leaving home today was a déjà vu experience of sorts. Wendy and I packed up and moved our family to Mexico in December 1994 for me to study at the University of the Americas in Puebla. Leaving seemed logistically simpler then than now even though we had three very active small boys (ages 3 and half, 2 and 8 months...