Something Unexpected

Last week Daniel's best friend and BYU roommate, Matt Hutchings, received his mission call.  Matt is also going to the Germany Frankfurt Mission!  What were the chances of that happening?  Both  Daniel and Matt are very excited to get to serve in the same mission at the same time.  Matt enters the MTC in August.  Daniel and Matt became very good friends during their sophomore year in high school.  They were both in my seminary class that year and they sat in the second row.  It was fun, although I had to remind them to stop talking during my lesson more than once!  They both took several years of German language and will have fun practicing together for the next few weeks.

Daniel bought this German flag and has it hanging in his dorm room.  He was home this weekend and I gave him a Book of Mormon in German and sent one to Matt, too.  When Daniel got back to his dorm he had this picture taken for me with the flag and the books. 

The full time missionaries from our ward get to have a plaque hanging in the display cabinet outside of the bishop's office.  Daniel's is already up.  Since he was home this Sunday he got to see it and I  took a picture of him standing next to it. 

As you can see, the plaque includes his picture, name, mission and dates, where his mission is located in Germany and the scripture he has chosen for his mission, Alma 39:1-2.  I will be happy to add this to my collection when  he gets home in May of 2014!

Daniel's Temple Day

We had a very special morning at the Mount Timpanogos Temple with Daniel last Saturday.  He received his own endowment and we were all so blessed to have our whole family in the temple together.  I have been looking forward to this day for a very long time.  It has been my goal as a mother to be with all four of my children in the celestial room of the temple someday, and now that goal has been achieved!  I am very proud of my children and I am so grateful that Daniel has prepared himself to enter the temple and to serve a full time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  This is what I call "Mother's Payday".  And it's definitely "Father's Payday" too.

Daniel's Grandpa and Grandma Borden attended the temple with us.  Also attending but not pictured were Daniel's aunt Lisa Winans and Bishop and Sister Dixon from our ward in Las Vegas.

Happy Day!