When I took 2 years out of my 'life' to share what I believed (as a full-time missionary like Jed is now) the world didn't have email, or if it did I don't think I knew about it. Therefore my correspondence with my family and friends was via the USPS (I was a missionary in Hawaii). If I didn't write every week the various speeds of the postal service would sort of 'even it out' ... meaning if I didn't write on P-Day, no one would know until that next week - and depending on the timing - if the next one traveled quickly it would seem like it was about right on time ... at least that is what I have told myself.
This experience in 2015 as a father of a missionary is somehow different for me, because I know if Jed writes an email to me. Potentially if I am awake around 4 am I could write back and he will respond (like a conversation). Way faster than sending a letter in the mail; wow technology has sure changed. What comes with that knowledge however is that if Jed doesn't send an email then I know he didn't.
He didn't send one last week, and therefore I didn't post on this blog. I guess in my mind I said, "...he has been in the Enfield area of England for a while now, he probably didn't send me an email because he was being transferred to a new part of England to serve..." (again these transfers are something that is done based on revelation from God through the Mission President - but seem to happen every N number of months). I fully expected that I would receive an email from Jed this week saying something like ..."well, I didn't get a chance to send an email because I was traveling to my new assignment in ...".
Sometimes members of the church, or even those who are not members of the church take the missionaries out to eat. I saw a picture of a member who had (again the technology is different than when I served a mission) posted a few pictures of Jed and his companion online. I saw the picture sometime last week and there were two missionaries shown, neither one was Elder Murri. I naturally assumed, "...Yep, he must have been transferred ... I am sure the next email will confirm my hunch...".
Well, I never got another email. I am thinking he is probably still in Enfield, and probably pretty busy. :)
I have a few photo's he has sent previously that I have not shared, so I will share another one here. I most likely like my wife, will eagerly wait for the next email.
I am pleasantly reminded that he is doing the Lord's work, so I have no reason to fear for the welfare of Elder Jed Murri. In a revelation given to the Prophet on the earth in the early 1800's we are told: (copy url to follow the link: https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/136.17-18?lang=eng#16 ) "Go thy way and do as I have told you, and fear not thine enemies; for they shall not have power to stop my work. Zion shall be redeemed in mine own due time."
This experience in 2015 as a father of a missionary is somehow different for me, because I know if Jed writes an email to me. Potentially if I am awake around 4 am I could write back and he will respond (like a conversation). Way faster than sending a letter in the mail; wow technology has sure changed. What comes with that knowledge however is that if Jed doesn't send an email then I know he didn't.
He didn't send one last week, and therefore I didn't post on this blog. I guess in my mind I said, "...he has been in the Enfield area of England for a while now, he probably didn't send me an email because he was being transferred to a new part of England to serve..." (again these transfers are something that is done based on revelation from God through the Mission President - but seem to happen every N number of months). I fully expected that I would receive an email from Jed this week saying something like ..."well, I didn't get a chance to send an email because I was traveling to my new assignment in ...".
Sometimes members of the church, or even those who are not members of the church take the missionaries out to eat. I saw a picture of a member who had (again the technology is different than when I served a mission) posted a few pictures of Jed and his companion online. I saw the picture sometime last week and there were two missionaries shown, neither one was Elder Murri. I naturally assumed, "...Yep, he must have been transferred ... I am sure the next email will confirm my hunch...".
Well, I never got another email. I am thinking he is probably still in Enfield, and probably pretty busy. :)
I have a few photo's he has sent previously that I have not shared, so I will share another one here. I most likely like my wife, will eagerly wait for the next email.
I am pleasantly reminded that he is doing the Lord's work, so I have no reason to fear for the welfare of Elder Jed Murri. In a revelation given to the Prophet on the earth in the early 1800's we are told: (copy url to follow the link: https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/136.17-18?lang=eng#16 ) "Go thy way and do as I have told you, and fear not thine enemies; for they shall not have power to stop my work. Zion shall be redeemed in mine own due time."