Put your Shoulder to the Wheel Push Along

We're going to be a Ma and Pa!  Yay :)  Ha did I fool you again?  Hopefully not.  Actually we're going to be a Ma and Pa for Trek, and boy are we excited.  

You're probably wondering why they picked such a young Ma and Pa.  Simple... I pretty much volunteered us.  You see being in the young women's presidency you get to talk with the Bishop a lot more than you normally would.  Well one day I had mentioned to Megan our YW president, before that I would love to be a Ma and Pa one day.  So while during a meeting our Bishop brought up the fact that the stake is doing Trek next year.  Megan quickly informed him that I would love to be a Ma and Pa and of course I couldn't deny the fact.  A couple weeks later wa la we were called to be the Ma and Pa from our ward. Wohoo! 

Now you're probably wondering why in the heck I wanted us to be a Ma and Pa so bad.  The answer to that takes me back to my trek experience.  I absolutely loved trek!  I loved the entire experience and I loved my Ma and Pa.  It probably helped the matter that I was a favorite trek child of theirs, haha.  Anyway, my entire trek experience made me want to be involved when I got older and I decided that being a Ma and Pa would be the best way to experience it again.  Boy do I hope I'm right.  However, you see Chase didn't enjoy his trek as much and I did, so it took just a little convincing on my part to make him believe he would love it too.  Luckily he wasn't hard to convince :)  What a sweetheart.  

So let's be honest I can't wait for Trek to come!  Obviously right, since I am doing a whole post about.  However I hope our stake starts being more fun, because if it's anything like our kick off fireside, I'm afraid it's going to be hard to get the kids wheels spinning so that they can make it fun experience.  No need to worry though because they'll have me as a Ma and Chase as a Pa and we're load's of fun as it is ;)  

This is me on trek.  My Pa was a germ-a-phob so I started a mud fight, chased him down and got him a little muddy.

Come July we will become a Ma and Pa to a handful of teenagers and I hope they love us.  I actually have a lot of expectations for trek and I hope I don't end up disappointing myself.  I tend to do that a lot.  All I can say though is that I truly hope that we will be able to help give our "kids" an enjoyable, spiritual and uplifting experience.  I really hope I'm as good of a Ma as mine was to me.  I guess the experience of it all will only tell.  So here's to reenacting what the pioneers did, to pushing and pulling handcarts, to feeling the spirit of our pioneer ancestors, to being on a spiritual high, to doing hard things, and to enjoying our journey along the way.  We will have a great time and it will be memorable enough that we are all going to be talking about it for years to come. :) So bring it on, we're ready to put our shoulder's to the wheel.

Oh and if anybody has any advice, we would love it :)