As many of you know, our daughter, Rachelle, is serving a church mission in the France, Toulouse mission. Guys who are worthy and able serve for two years; girls who are worthy and want to serve for eighteen months. Rachelle has wanted to serve a mission since she was a very little girl. Her whole life, she has had that as her primary goal.
Rachelle was originally scheduled to come home near the beginning of March. But she requested an extension. Actually, citing injustice to girls, she requested a six-month extension. She was given six-weeks more. So her new return date was April 13th. But she learned that the mission wasn’t going to get another sister missionary until the end of May, which meant they would have to pull the missionaries out in one of the towns and form a threesome. So Rachelle convinced her mission president that it was a “silly” thing to do, when she was more than happy to stay another six weeks. This would allow the “ville” to stay open, and everyone would be much happier. He cleared it with us, and then took it to the Area Presidency for approval. (Missionaries are not permitted more than a single transfer extension, and she would be onto her second transfer.)
I just got an e-mail from him—and she got clearance to stay another six weeks. So she will have served for twenty-one months by the time she is finished—and she is quite happy about that. She cracks me up.
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