About 10:15 pm I got a text from a sister in our ward that I should check my email. Some of you know that we have insider information in Elder Muir's mission. A couple in our ward has a brother & sister in law who are serving in the mission office. The sister in our ward keeps us up to date on the info in the mission. She talked with her sis in law the night that Elder Muir was supposed to call and she sent her this info about what would happen when the missionaries arrived in Pittsburgh on Monday morning.
Below is the email from the sister missionary in the office...
OK so Zach is right, they fly all night and arrive here BEAT. They take them to the mission home and the Mission President's wife feeds them breakfast (including Sis Buehner’s amazingly wonderful cinnamon rolls) and then they let them have a much deserved NAP. After that they take them all to the Overlook of Pittsburgh that you saw in my blog and then they are off to the church for meetings and dinner. After that it's back the mission home for interviews, which with this many missionaries will probably go until after midnight, then they are off to bed. They have about 6 bunk beds at the mission home along with blow up mattresses. Also there are a few bedrooms up stairs that they usually give to the Sister missionaries, but lately there have been too many to sleep there so they bring a few of them over to our house and the other office couple to spend the night.
Next morning they have breakfast at 7:30 am and then out by 8:15 am to go back to the church for meetings that go from 9:00 am to 12, then they stop for lunch, which is Jimmy Johns box lunches (which yours truly has arranged for). After lunch the mission President and the AP's have another one hour meeting and make final changes as to where everyone is going. They have already decided on it last week but sometimes after he interviews some of them he changes his mind. Then at 2:00 they meet in the Chapel and he announces where everyone is going and who their companion is, when he announces it they just get up, hug each other and then they are out of there.
I have looked on the list and have seen where Zach is going (that is if Pres. Topham doesn't change his mind.) I’ll email you tomorrow after everything is finalized. I'm sure I will get to talk to him so I'll make sure he knows that all Buehners are weird, but some of us are pretty nice.
We were lucky that we got the email right before we talked to our missionary. The call finally came around 10:30 pm and it was the BEST!!! He sounded FABULOUS and so happy. We talked for 30 minutes and none of us even cried...YAY! He's so happy and said that he's learned so many things and grown so much. He said he's done and accomplished things that he never thought were possible. We recorded the conversation so if you want to hear it let us know. Words can't even express how grateful we are that he is doing well. We are definitely already seeing many blessings & miracles and feel so blessed to have a missionary during this historic wave of missionaries.
Why did that seem familiar? Maybe I was with you when you got it???
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