Another phone call...

😳 Now the Mission Department wants to know if I am willing to be a Mission Nurse.  Ron predicted that this would happen!  We hadn't put that down as a preference, but they noticed I was a nurse from the background information.  The man said it could be anywhere in the world, and that it is an advisory role, I wouldn't really be doing any real nursing.  (I actually rather do "real" nursing than "advise.")  He said I would work closely with the mission president and his wife in consulting about individual missionary's health and making recommendations about possible treatment.

If I were to be called as a Nurse Specialist, we would go to the MTC for the standard week to learn about Preach My Gospel, then I would go to Salt Lake for 2 more days of training and Ron would do 2 additional days at the MTC learning about office procedures, etc.  Ron would pretty much be doing whatever the Mission President needs, including office work, and helping me.

We looked to see if there are any "critical needs" for Mission Nurse Specialists -- yeah, there are 6 with 12 more "low" priority needs listed.  The critical ones are all where we had looked at anyway, with the exception of 3 in the Philippines. 

He said the process now is that he will make a recommendation based on our phone call, that will go to some Elder Clayton in the Seventy who will also make a recommendation that will go to the Apostle who will be issuing the call.  Sounds like we have a few more weeks to wait!