Tenacious Trommlitz in Tennessee!!

She's finally there!  From completing requirements in December, to submitting papers in January, to receiving a call to serve in March, to entering the MTC in July, to arriving in her field of service this week. (I should have said, from being prepared for 19 years--and even before, at the beginning!)  

She told us in her last emails that she would call on travel day (Tues., the 29th) possibly from Salt Lake at 4:30 a.m. and/or from her layover in Georgia around 9:30-10:30 a.m.  It was Elizabeth and my first day at our Stake's Laurel's conference up in the mountains.  So I had my phone with me ALL DAY waiting for it to go off.  I waited...and waited...and waited...
Nothing :(  Since I was busy and taking care of the girls in our ward and all the activities they had planned for us, I didn't feel overly sad or worried.  Although Elizabeth received a picture on her Ipod from a friend of hers who happened to see Rachel in the SL airport early that morning!  His family was traveling on vacation to Hawaii.  That was wonderful to see she was actually there! No coincidences...
The next day Ken texted that the mission had sent an arrival email with a picture!  So we knew she was safe and where she was supposed to be.  Thank goodness!  I kept thinking that the day she turned in those papers, I turned her life (and her safety) over to the Lord.  So she is His for a while now.  Whatever happens is right for her and for the people she is serving in TN. Here is an excerpt from the mission home email.  What wonderful people they have taking care of our young missionaries.  Ken and I are hopeful we will get to do that someday!   

"They have Arrived! All missionaries arrived safe and sound, although a little tired! They are as excited as are we to be here in the Great Tennessee Knoxville Mission! They are at the mission home having dinner together and having personal interviews with President Griffin. Tomorrow they will start at 9:00 a.m. with orientation and then they will meet their trainers. From there they go right into Transfer/Testimony Meeting. Then off they go to their new area and will be teaching by Wednesday night!"

Amazing, huh?  Right to work!  President Griffin is from right here in our neck of the woods, Farr West, UT.  About a 1/2 hour north of where we live. We have talked to several people here who know him and his young family.  And have heard nothing but wonderful things about them. What a blessing!  

If you would like to write to her, I know she would LOVE letters from any of you!  All correspondence goes through the mission home for her mission.  
Here is the address:

 Sister Rachel Trommlitz

11320 Station West Dr., #101

Farragut, TN 37934