An adrenalin rush happened today

DeWayne Savanio from Salt Lake Church mission headquarters called today. He said he had gotten a call from a General Authority who was out in the world at his assignment ("somewhere" out there is what he said because he can't tell us who or where he is) saying that he needed a senior couple desparately in his area to do an "adventure mission" asap. Bro. Savanio said there was us and one other couple that met the needs for that mission call and could we possibly go March 1, 2010 instead of May 1, 2010. He said we were unusual in that we had our health and the funds needed. Most couples that go are either in less good health or did not have the needed funds for these adventure missions or they did not prefer to do the more strenuous adventure missions. He said our background experiences also contributed to us being good candidates for this particular mission call.
Exciting! It has been 6 days since Stake President Sinclair sent our application in and they are already looking at a position for us.
Tom and I talked about how could we possibly have him retire the last Friday of February and us show up at the training center the following Monday. Possible but not without challenges we decided. Tom called Bro. Savanio back and discussed it and left it that if the Lord wanted us in March then we would make it happen. The other couple are available March 1 without problems so he said he would recommend the other couple to the General Authorities but if it was decided that we should go then he would try to get us a little time to get there.
I really hope that this or another adventure mission is where the Lord puts us. I am wanting to roll up my sleeves and really get to work where our help in truely needed and we can have an impact on the work of the Lord. It is so hard for me to be patient!! I hear that President Hinkley had a problem with patience too so at least I am in good company. I can hardly stand to waste time just waiting-we could be busy learning a language, or getting appropriate clothing, or learning local customs, or getting our cell phone service set up, or, or , or, but NOOOOO - I have to just twiddle my thumbs and wait! Maybe we'll get another call today, just maybe...