We feel overwhelmed and swamped with all there is to learn and all of the responsibility that comes with this calling.  We will be responsible for the mental health issues for the Mexico City MTC English-speaking missionaries and all of the English-speaking missionaries in all of the 34 missions in Mexico.  The MTC is the second largest in the world with often over 1,000 missionaries.  No one we talked to thought we could kick back and relax--just the opposite.  They think we will be run off our feet.  We just hope we can be what the Lord would like us to be and do what He would have us do.

Obviously, the counseling sessions in the field will not be face-to-face contacts for the outlying areas, rather, we will visit with our missionaries by phone.  We will both be doing pastoral counseling to cover the areas, sharing our observations and recommendations with the Area Presidency and Mission President in each mission, as well as with our leaders in Salt Lake.

We already have tons of support.  The Church has done a marvelous job at preparing materials to help in assessments and
short-term counseling.  We also have a wide variety of professionals upon whom we can rely for help.  

We came home after a VERY INTENSIVE training in SLC with piles of information to assimilate in 4 weeks.  The responsibility of it all weighs heavily on us.  We are SO grateful we have each other and feel we've worked out some of the bugs in our marriage & mission companionship through the other 3 missions we've served together.  We certainly need to be on the same page for this one, because it is going to be one of the biggest challenges of our lives.