A Trip to Missionary Mall!

The first stop for every newly-called missionary in Utah County is Missionary Mall in Orem!

Two new Elders head for South America!

Elder Paul Westover and Elder Stephen Jensen show us on the world map at Missionary Mall where they will be serving! Paul will be in Chile, Santiago, East and Stephen will be serving in Argentina, Buenos Aires, South! They will be entering the MTC within 2 weeks of each other!

FREE SOCKS!

Paul gets an inservice on socks! Who knew there was so much to learn about socks! It was worth listening to the salesman, Jack, because both Paul and Stephen got a free pair of socks to try out!

You can never have too many white shirts!

Paul and long-time friend, Stephen Jensen, from Sandy, Utah, get the sales pitch at Missionary Mall! The great thing about M.M. is that everything is guarenteed for 2 years!

Practicing on the scooter, just in case missionaries in Chile ride them around!

The Suspense Has Ended!

Congratulations, Paul!

Chile, Santiago East Mission!

Reporting to the Provo MTC on

June 24, 2009

It was a good size group that came to support Paul!

We just wish that they would have brought their appetites with them!

It was surprising how much food they DIDN'T eat!

So much for starving students!

Or maybe they were all trying to be polite?!

But we all enjoyed meeting them and getting to know Paul's friends!

The congratulations keep coming! Everyone is so happy for Paul!

The celebration continues!

A friend of Paul's is excited about the call too! He lived in that mission while his dad was the mission president! It will be great to be able to talk to him more and find out more details on the living conditions and culture there!

The re-enactment of the thrill of his call is awesome! He is thrilled not to be going state-side!

Here is the mission call... can you read where he is going?!

The much-anticipated location where Paul will spend the next two years of his life is just about to be revealed! But wait.... Who pushed the mute button?! Paul's family in CA can't hear the great announcement, unbeknown to Paul!

Family and friends gather at Grandpa and Grandma Westover's to see Paul open his mission call and celebrate his call to Boise, ID! No, wait... that's not where he is going is it?!!

Where will he go??

So many of us thought for sure since Paul was tall with blonde hair he would surely be sent to Asia! But I am pretty sure he will stand out just as much in South America!

It's Anyone and Everyone's Guess!

Family and friends all took a guess as to where Paul would be called on his mission! Everyone chose one foreign and one domestic location!