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Mission Blog Post #4

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One day soon we'll walk the trails above these cliffs of Moher. Waiting is the Hardest Part Each day of this week, we have been expecting Mission Travel or the Mission Office to provide us our itinerary for departure for Ireland. We never considered for a minute that we wouldn't be on a plane within a few days of receiving our Pre-Clearance Authorization from Ireland Immigration. That was a mistake.  In the Salt Lake City Headquarters Mission, they are used to having 'visa waiters' amongst them. In each case that we have seen, once the ' visa waiters' have their visas the missionary couple are on their way within a few days - to Japan, or India, or wherever. In our case, we advised Travel and the Scotland-Ireland Mission President last Friday morning that indeed we have our Ireland papers, but a week later we still do not have our itinerary.  The steps in the process includes Travel confirming with the Mission that the Mission would like us to arrive on a cert...