My wonderful parents convinced my sweet, adorable, hilarious, spunky grandmother to put in her papers and join them in the work as missionaries in Taiwan!
My Na Na is seriously the best. She always came up to our house for all of our school plays, constantly gave us presents (and anything other trinkets/jewelry/treats we happened to show any remote interest in while visiting her house), and is always smiling, laughing, and up for an adventure!
She put in her papers, got her call, and was going into the MTC before we knew it! Jake and Jacky happened to be in town that same week, so we all got together and snuck her out of the MTC for dinner one night.
We went to Spicy Corea, a reignited family fave in Cait's honor. DELISH.
Afterward, we really really wanted a pic with Na Na in the MTC (as instructed by Mother, obviously). The only problem was, they wouldn't let us in the MTC at all! We couldn't get in when we picked her up, so on the way back I made everyone park across the street and walk up to the MTC so that they wouldn't turn us away. Then the security guard still wanted us to drop her off at the gate! This simply would not do! So in true Blickenstaff fashion, we stood there and made it awkward until the guard said, "Are you dropping her off?" We put on our best sad faces and all said we just wanted to say goodbye to our grandmother, and finally she just let us in! We laughed and laughed all the way into the MTC and snapped a picture as fast as we could before anyone could kick us out.
Na Na was laughing the hardest because she was already wearing her missionary badge: clearly she had already been checked into the MTC! That poor security guard didn't stand a chance against this sneaky, stubborn pack of Blickenstaffs!
We love our missionaries!!!!!
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