Boehme

08.13.2019 Will was set apart as a missionary on Tuesday, August 13th, 2019. It was a special evening for our family and Will's close friends. President David Stewart and his wife Karri, our good friends and Will's doctor, who've known Will all his life came to be with us to take care of the setting apart.  We opened with prayer and then the setting apart took place.  It was a powerful experience to hear the words "set apart as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!" It was official, now he would need to keep the mission rules, always have a companion with him and wear missionary attire.  Even more powerful were some beautiful promises to trust in the Lord....that if Will was meant to go to Edmonton while he waited for his visa to come through--that is what would happen. Promises that if he was obedient that he would be blessed with success and growth. Encouragement to be confident in himself and his abilities, and that ...

{Will was ordained to the office of an Elder in the Melchizedek Priesthood by his Father, Brian Boehme, on 31 March 2019} 04.16.2019 It is hard to describe the feelings of sheer excitement and also stress & anxiety we all felt as we waited for Will to receive his mission call.  With the change for all mission calls to be emailed instead of mailed as of 2019, the process had been very fast for his friends. As the weeks stretched on it seemed to take an eternity for Wills call to come.  I think he waited 2 1/2 weeks for that anticipated email to arrive in his inbox!  I remember how thrilling it was when he texted me after heading off to school, that his call had come!! We gathered as family and friends to support him that evening at 6:00pm!  Through nerves and shaking hands he read his call..... April 16, 2019 Dear Elder Boehme: You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to lab...