It is really hard to believe our Ben will be home from him mission in 9 days! I didn't start this blog until he had been gone 6 months...so I really wanted to capture the beginning of his mission before he gets home.
Ben was at Utah State when his mission call arrived. He thought he could wait for the weekend to come home to open it...but he couldn't! We had some of his good friends and the family over to hear the great news. We had the Vegas family on the phone!
With tears in his eyes...he read: Elder Benjamin Dixon, you are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the California Arcadia Mission. It is anticipated you will serve for a period of 24 months. You should report to the Provo Missionary Training Center on January 5, 2011. You will prepare to preach the gospel in the Mandarin Chinese language.
Everyone was cheering and excited when we heard Califonia Arcadia...and then when he read
Mandarin Chinese...it was crazy and loud! Chinese?!!!!! Ben had taken Chinese for 2 years in high school and already had a love of the language... but over the next two years none of us had any idea how that love for the Chinese people would grow and become a part of him.
It is such a blessing to know the Lord sends his missionaries right to where they are supposed to be!
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