The Barbados Bridgetown Mission

It’s been a week since Eleanor received her call, and unsurprisingly it has dominated our discussions and our thoughts. As it’s an area of the world that we are unfamiliar with and had not really considered when thinking about where she might go, some of the last week has been spent researching it. The Church…

The Opening

On 3rd August with as many members of the family as we could get together, and some very close friends, Eleanor opened her mission call. Martha, our 9 year old daughter, had designed a poster and also a chart that listed all of our guesses. Eleanor had also posted on Facebook in the morning asking…

It has arrived!!!!

3 weeks after submitting her papers Eleanor’s mission call arrived this morning. As a Bishop I can track the progress of the call (though not where the assignment is). As such we knew that the assignment had been made on July 22nd– we also know that calls to the UK usually arrive Wednesday or Thursday-…

The wait begins…

At the time of writing it is a week since Eleanor submitted her papers (application) to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a sister missionary she will serve for a period of 18 months. As she has prepared for this huge step the overwhelming question from people…