{"id":28529,"date":"2024-10-09T13:55:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=28529"},"modified":"2024-10-09T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T04:30:11","slug":"mmsk-and-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2024\/10\/mmsk-and-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"MMSK and Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Before Mark was set apart as a missionary, he wanted one last gathering with his Sanchez cousins who are his age, so we invited them to spend part of conference weekend here. MMSK is pronounced “misk,” and it’s an acronym of their names. Mostly, there was a lot of nonsense going on as they “watched conference”, but I think that the time together was important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark and Richard attended a session of General Conference on Sunday. They brought the binoculars, which was a great idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark’s last traditional general conference tower for a while.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When Mark sent in his mission papers last spring, I assumed he would be on a mission long before now. We’ve had a long preparation period, which was good in many ways and challenging in others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had time for more spiritual preparation and temple worship. Mark received mentoring in Preach My Gospel and got some work experience from his Sanchez grandparents. We had time to travel this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long wait means that the bandaid is being removed very slowly. I am pretty fragile lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that Mark has had a few days of home MTC, he is excited to go to the Provo MTC next week. Everything is as it should be: the wait, the anticipation, the emotions accompanying a goodbye, the excitement, his assignment. Everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Mark was set apart as a missionary, he wanted one last gathering with his Sanchez cousins who are his age, so we invited them to spend part of conference weekend here. MMSK is pronounced “misk,” and it’s an acronym of their names. Mostly, there was a lot of nonsense going on as they “watched … Continue reading MMSK and Conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,46,26,36,20,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-church","category-faith","category-fatherhood","category-jesus-christ","category-life-according-to-angela","category-missionary","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28529","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=28529"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28546,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28529\/revisions\/28546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}