We have registered to vote absentee, picked up 6 months of medications, let our credit card company know we'll be out of the country, changed passwords, renewed the Cd's at the bank, finished filing out income tax forms, prepared short talks for church, talked with MTC about arrival, practiced packing suitcases to see if everything will fit, made a walk-through list for our kids checking on house and studied and studied and studied Spanish. Since we won't be taking our car like we did to Mexico this feels very different to us.
We still have a to-do list for this week. We keep adding to it.
We are very excited with this call and are eager to serve in Colombia.
During the week I re-read the article on Colombia in the March 2005 Liahona. It was probably in the Ensign as well. From the article I learned that the things the stake presidents were working on in Colombia are the same things that we have worked on as a family all of our lives. They talked about family, temple, education, learning self reliance (gardens etc,) and I felt close to them and their goals. They have been my goals as well. The only difference is that James Oliver and Thomas Grover etc. were the pioneers in our family and they are the pioneers in Colombia.
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