Meeker Moments: Max's Mission Call Opening!

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Max's Mission Call Opening!

WOW! This all just got REAL! Max's Senior year is flying past us but getting his mission call is the best part yet. He of course had to make a big production of it all. His call came earlier than expected--we were prepared to be delayed a week due to General Conference but the call came! It was a LONG day for all of us as we were waiting for this:

Funny story: Max has wanted to live in NYC FOREVER! He even told our Bishop this. He specifically told the Bishop, "I want to go foreign or New York, New York Mission--Spanish speaking." Apparently there is a space on the mission papers where the Bishop gets to put a few comments in. Bishop Park wrote Max's exact words--"Foreign or New York, New York--Spanish Speaking." We kept telling Max over and over again, "YOU DON'T GET TO PICK YOUR MISSION." but by golly...THE BOY PICKED HIS MISSION!!! We like to joke that it was a really busy week in SLC due to the upcoming General Conference and the conversation amongst the Apostles was probably like, "This is a really busy week but let's look at one more mission application....New York, New York? Spanish Speaking? Alright. Everyone good with that? Done." Bishop Park's own son put in his application the exact same day as Max and his came a week later. Maybe he should have had his dad put in a a specific mission call like he did with Max...😜. Whatever! We will take it and Max is THRILLED to say the least. He can now go live in NYC and either figure out how to live there forever OR get it out of his system.

He has such a great support group all around him. We had people from all over come--Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, the Reservation. How blessed we are to know so many people from so many different places.