The Last 2 Years
The title of this post is just a little play on words. The Best Two Years is a 2003 film, popular among the Latter-day Saint audience, portraying the lives of a few young missionaries, serving in the Church's not quite obligatory 2 year mission program. For the last 2 years, Margot and I have been trying to go on a mission for the Church ourselves. We've been called, but we've not quite made it in to the mission field yet. About 2 years ago, following Stake Conference, Margot and I were invited in to the Stake Presidents office to meet with the Stake President and the visiting Area Authority Seventy, whose name slips my mind. I'm fairly sure he is Tongan and he served as a Mission President somewhere in Africa. I had been keen to serve a Senior Couple mission for a few years. The time was never quite right, and it's fair to say that I was much keener than Margot. Our daughter Miriam served in the Sydney North Mission and I was keen to serve at the same time, but no