What are the odds?

The day that Megan turned in her mission papers, the guessing began . . . where would she go? Friday, March 13th was the day that we found out. Megan's grandparents have been on their mission in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania since November 2014. Here is how Grandma Pat described Megan's mission call opening on her blog:

"Megan found her mission call in the mailbox in the afternoon and she and her parents arranged for friends and family to gather at 8:45 pm Utah time.  Emily had previously arranged for everyone in the family to connect via Skype, but we were a little skeptical that it would actually work.

Anyway, it was 10:45 pm for us and Kent and Shelly, but one by one we got on Skype and it worked perfectly!  Of course Megan's family, Brent and Emily and their family, Megan's bishop, Alex, and some of their other friends were there. Megan stood in the living room to open the envelope.

We all made one 'stateside guess' and one 'foreign guess' beforehand and Heather put all the guesses on a big map.  Of course, the tension began to mount.  Jim and I wondered whose guess in the family would come closest.  The farthest thing on our minds was the Pennsylvania Pittsburgh mission.....BUT.....that is what came out of her mouth as she read the letter!!!  Our mouths dropped open and we began to suspect that Jared or maybe Kent had somehow done a 'fake' letter or something to trick us by pulling an early April Fool's joke.  

Megan showed us the letter on the screen up close..... but we still didn't believe it.  Finally, they opened up her packet and showed us the picture of President and Sister Johnson.

Only then did we start to believe...  I started screaming so loud that we probably woke our neighbors up.

It turns out that Emily was the only one to actually guess Pittsburgh!"

In reality, I have to give Brynlee credit too. She had told me that her guess was Pittsburgh, PA (since that is the only mission she thinks is in existence) but I told her to choose another place because it was impossible for Megan to get sent there because the church doesn't let grandchildren serve in the same mission as their grandparents. I truly thought that China seemed even more likely to be her mission than Pittsburgh!  Megan not only has her grandparents there, but has a few friends serving in the same mission as well. What an amazing blessing! I guess that Friday the 13th is actually lucky at our house.