Set apart as missionaries

Tonight Lisa and I were set apart as full time Temple Missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to serve in the Johannesburg South Africa Temple.  We were set apart by our Stake President and dear friend, President Jay Jones.  It was special for us to have our kids and grandkids here except Lexie and her family who could not come up from Austin due to snow and bad weather.  President Jones made some special promises to us about our service and being a blessing to those we will serve in South Africa and how we will learn to love the people there.  It is exciting to be serving as missionaries and I have the most fantastic and amazing companion!!!  I Love Her.
This is the start of an amazing service phase of our lives and we are grateful to have been so blessed.  I do have to remind everyone that blessings and luck seem to be directly related to how hard you work.  It has been many years of hard work to be financially blessed and in so many other ways prepared to go on a mission.  We leave for Utah in the AM to start this adventure.......

Countdown to a new adventure

Well here we are friends! Welcome one, welcome all, to the inaugural Elder and Sister Johnson Blog!!! As we adventure and frolic from Home Base Johannesburg, we will be updating from here, even though Facebook is a perfectly viable option for such shenanigans. But here we are, since Kerry likes to chronicle life via electronic journal. SO, here we are.

Lisa Marie helped me set this up as Nathan was too lazy and unaccommodating the multiple times I petitioned for him to do so. We are both stressed, what with the packing and preparing and thoughts of leaving our possessions in the charge of our youngest child... what were we thinking?!? But it is exciting to be embarking on this adventure and we are grateful that we are able to help our children live their lives, even from afar. We will definitely miss our grandchildren immensely. Possibly their parents at times, but there is no way to be for certain.

Thank you for taking the time to care about our lives, and I promise that future posts will be more exciting, even if lacking in flowery, colorful vernacular. We love you all!!!

Kerry and Lisa, via the ramblings of Nathan.