J.T's Mission Call

https://youtu.be/ovVDhA_2YKM?list=LL2f5pUdWrhmvJ-nbnEYhFmw

Australia Brisbane Mission on July 13, 2016. Click on the link to see the FULL video.

This mission call came in the mailbox on February 24th.  Ryan's bday.  It was a sweet blessing.  We know that Ryan will be with JT on his mission.  It's weird to think that all of this is a blessing.  I mean your friend dies.  Not only dies, but kills himself during JT's junior year in high school and a year and half later, we feel at peace.  We know that Ryan didn't know everything in this life, but he does now.  JT can now go teach that truth to others in Australia and Ryan will be his angel looking out for him. 

Thanks to all the people who came to JT's mission call opening.  It was wonderful to see the love of his friends at this big moment in his life.  It is a big deal.  JT is going to be a great missionary!  LOVE MY BOY! 

I'm so proud of JT. James Tyler Nuttall. His mission papers are in and we are awaiting the lovely call to serve from Apostles of the Lord. I'm not a patient person and most of you know this about me. I don't know why I'm so anxious. I guess I just want to know where my son will serve for the next 2 years on his life after high school.
So to pass the time, I pray multiple times a day for his call to be the right call. Then I do research on how missionaries are assigned and I feel at peace. So excited, but the waiting is slowly driving me crazy. Patience is a virtue. Just not my virtue. His papers have been in for 2 weeks. It could come anytime now or not until 3 weeks from now.

If you want to know more here's my favorite quote from today's research by Henry B Erying:
All my life, from the time I have been a young boy and as far back as I can remember, I have had experiences feeling of the Holy Ghost. … But I’ve never felt what I have felt as I have … participated in the assigning of missionaries. …
“We go into a room, and … it will be a two-or three-hour session and sometimes longer. Because of technology, it is possible for us to have your picture and the information about you displayed. And then quickly, on that same screen, all the missions of the Church with all of their needs are displayed. Within minutes, and sometimes less than a minute, the impression comes so powerfully that it would be, if it were a single instance, something that you would never forget. Can you imagine sitting there for hours at a time, having that happen time after time without interruption? I testify to you that it is real. …
“… In a world so large, the Creator … somehow not only knows you but loves you enough to ensure that your call is where He needs you to go to teach the children of our Heavenly Father.” Elder Henry B. Eyring of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “Called of God” (devotional address delivered at the Provo Missionary Training Center, Aug. 26, 1997).

18 years ago in January Travis Nuttall and I moved to Phoenix with our 7 month old JT. We were recruited fresh out of BYU and started a real job as a civil engineer at American Engineering/ later becoming RBF. This place of employment was more like family for the 9 years Travis worked there. And Doug Baker was Travis' first boss there. Today is Doug Baker's funeral. It brings me back to those early years in Phoenix. Doug and his wife Kathy were one of the nicest people we met in Phoenix. Jimmy Baker and Candice Baker also worked there at some point. We later moved into a ward with Andrew Baker and Shannon Vaden Baker and got to know more of Doug's family. He has a great family. I am so sad for their loss. Doug fought a brave fight with cancer and I know he is free from those earthly pains and happy on the other side of the veil. I love that I know the Baker family and I'm thinking of them a little more during this time of grief. Thinking about this great man just makes me smile. Not smile because he's gone, but because I am proud to have known him. He was such a good, patient, happy man.

Flicker - JT on Pinnacle Percussion

SO...JT decided that he wasn't busy enough his senior year with work, school, church, filling out mission paperwork, and being a student.  He along with Johnny, Mallory, Reid, Jackson, Miguel, Michael, Cody, and Roslyn from the OC drumline tried out and made the Pinnacle Percussion Winter season.  This is their show.  JT would go to practice twice and week and most Saturdays.  Busy boy.  Where does he get it from?  

https://youtu.be/sOsZJVo5qR8