So two days ago on the 27th of August, Kristen's friend Jaimie Hamelwright recieved her mission call! We were invited over at 10:00 for the grand opening! Upon arrival everyone wrote down there guess and put it into the big fish bowl, the winner would be presented with the prize of $5.07. Her brother in law Charles finally got there at 10:30 which is when Jaimie opened her call.
As she began to read the call all eyes were focused on her, and the tension was through the roof..."Dear Sister Hamelwright you are hereby called to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Ohio Columbus mission." With that her father took off up the stairs and came down putting a hat on Jaimies head and presenting her with a t-shirt, both of which read "Ohio State".
"So who guessed Ohio", Jaimie's sister yelled. "No one did", said someone else. "Well I guess that whoever guessed Nauvoo, should be the winner since that's the closest to Ohio", said another. As the winner was found, I began to think to myself "you know, I tied with the winner." I had guessed the Iowa Des Moines Mission since that is where I served my best 2 years, but I remember that a few months after ending my 2 years, the mission boundaries were adjusted to now include Nauvoo. We were close by Heather and Seth, to whom I commented about this interesting predicament. Several minutes later after many had hugged and congratulated Sister Hamelwright, she made her way over to us and I told her about this(not caring at all about the $5.07 reward, but just wanting the bragging rights of being the closest), she said "well I think Whitney guessed Nauvoo, but she left without collecting the reward". So Jaimie walked over and got the $5.07 and attempted handing it to me. "Oh no I said, I couldn't accept that. Just give it to my wife!" So she laughed and handed the reward to my wife. And that folks is how we won $5.07! :)
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