After dealing with the IRS, having two knees replaced a bone removed from a foot, mistakes at the mission office regarding Gales release from the Stake Presidency, fingerprints and FBI clearance, spending a whole day trying to fill out a visa form, Gale having kidney issues, being delayed and our visas not coming we are finally in the final countdown.  We are actually going to Portugal, and we enter the MTC in Provo, Utah in just a week.  We enter the MTC on July 6, 2015.We will be set apart as missionaries on Sunday.  Wow, we are actually going to be missionaries.  People keep talking about our travel but we are more interested in what we will get to do.  I love architecture so that will be a bonus but my true desire is the tasks we will be assigned. Working for the Lord full time has been my dream since childhood and now it is here.