{"id":10112,"date":"2014-10-30T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=10112"},"modified":"2014-10-31T07:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T14:54:09","slug":"8-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/8-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"8 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-2007-01<\/a>Eight years ago my dad and mom began their missionary journey.\u00a0They were asked to come to the Church office building in Salt Lake City for several interviews\u00a0before being\u00a0called as a mission president and companion and there was a lot of training which began 6 months before they went to the missionary training center. My mom learned Spanish. My dad revisited his Spanish speaking skills. He shaved his mustache.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a> They moved out of their home and said goodbye to the grandchildren. It was a big deal in our family to see this happen.<\/p>\n

They served for 3 years in the California San Bernardino mission. My mom taught, cooked, entertained, cooked, taught, loved, and spent a lot of time on the phone dealing with the health issues of their missionaries while my dad presided over the mission. There isn’t time to list all the things a mission president does for the missionaries, the people who are being taught by the missionaries, the members, and the community. I saw both my parents shine as they did the work. It was a busy, busy time.\"1-2008-03-31<\/a>\"1-2008-03-31<\/a>\"1-2010-05<\/a><\/p>\n

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Just a few months after they came home they were called to serve in the Provo Missionary Training Center. My dad served in branch presidencies and as a Branch President for Spanish speaking missionaries. This meant they would be at the MTC usually 2 nights a week and all day on Sundays. It meant my dad would read and respond to letters from his missionaries on another evening each week. My family was able to attend a sacrament meeting at the MTC on Christmas Day a few years ago. The missionaries spoke Spanish at whatever level they could. I saw how they loved my parents and how parents loved them. My dad has a great zeal for the gospel and my mom has a quiet wisdom that the missionaries love.<\/p>\n

They were released on Sunday morning, which means that their service was accepted and they are no longer serving as missionaries. My heart broke a little bit for them, especially my dad.\u00a0I am so proud of my parents. It’s been a marathon… an 8-year marathon, and they have\u00a0touched so many lives.<\/p>\n

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Eight years ago my dad and mom began their missionary journey.\u00a0They were asked to come to the Church office building in Salt Lake City for several interviews\u00a0before being\u00a0called as a mission president and companion and there was a lot of training which began 6 months before they went to the missionary training center. My mom … Continue reading 8 years ago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-extended-family","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10112"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10128,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112\/revisions\/10128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}