Click on the link below to see
Shae's Blog.
Can you believe Britton didn't
want to put on the hat for the second picture?
...And Hermana Bennett defended
her opinion.
Shae already had her application
for a mission planned for her 21st birthday when President Monson announced the
age change. The announcement only resulted in her leaving about 3 months earlier
than orignally planned, just before her 21st birthday. But Britton was one of the
ones you heard about that was texting all of her friends seconds after the
announcement - all excitedly making new, immediate plans. Thanks to the
announcment, Britton is leaving about three months after her 19th birthday!
Thinking of the moment of the announcement still has a very strong effect on all
of us. I suspect that Britton must have already had thoughts of serving a mission (that she kept secret from us) because when President Monson made the announcment during conference, it only took seconds for her to begin texting her friends and making plans.
As a result of weekly sealings our ward has been doing as part of
something we call 'The Elijah Project', as soon as they recieved thier
endowments, some girls (and one young man - John, now Elder Erikson - the one mentioned above and now at the MTC with Britton and his sister Sarah) had a chance to do sealings with Sister Elaine Dalton
(whose husband frequently performs the sealings). It was an incredible
experience. She has explained how she had the privlege of being part of seeing
the Lord create this movement in preparing young women for this incredible change that has so significantly affected the lives of so many sister
missionaries, now going into the field. It is almost incomprehensible the change
it will have on the lives of Heavenly Father's children, unknowingly waiting for
the arrival of all these new missionaries all around the world.
With her final hug in the
temple, Sister Dalton's final message was:
"Give them HEAVEN!!".
Go do it sisters...
