Author: Pamela Richardson

9/8/24 Today was our mission farewell. Oh, all the feels! But, before I can tell you about it, let’s back up and review all of the things that have happened this week to get us to today.  Monday: flu shots and covid boosters. This was very exciting because we got to check off the final…

9/1/24 Our summer months have been filled with mission preparations. First, Todd needed to retire so we could serve our mission. He officially retired from teaching for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a seminary and institute teacher on July 19th. We did a lot of traveling to see family before we…

4/17/24 It took us about a week and a half to gather all of the information the Church needs to submit our applications for Icelandic visas. Here is a checklist of the things we had to gather:  When we finally had everything gathered I got it all organized, prepped, and ready to mail to Salt…

4/3/24 It’s been a week since this excitement began and we are already feeling the hand of the Lord in this process. He has reassured us. He has enlightened us. He is guiding us. He is blessing us. Our children feel His peace in their lives just as we do. We have learned more about…

3/30/24 At this point it was Saturday morning. We’d had our mission call for four days. I’d had one day of intense excitement, two days of sheer panic, one day a bit calmer with the small vaccination success. I was starting to feel better about things. Understand that Todd is an absolute rock. While I…

3/29/24 One of the things to do immediately to prepare to leave for the mission field is making sure you have all your immunizations. For our mission papers Todd and I had already gotten all the dates of our previous immunizations and we were current on most things. Neither of us had been vaccinated for…

3/27-28/24 On the evening of the 27th we received an email from the Church with instructions about how to begin working on our Icelandic visas. (Iceland is part of the Copenhagen Denmark Mission.) This was confusing, to say the least. We were going to Denmark, didn’t we need to get a Danish visa? Also, there…

3/26/24 We submitted our mission papers on March 4, 2024. The missionary portal said it would take 5-6 weeks to receive our call. Our stake president said it would take 3-4 weeks. I figured we needed to plan for at least a month before it would come. Todd had done a bit of informal research…