Jayce's Commissioning

Jayce is officially a lieutenant in the Air Force. After a year of ups and downs with the application process, he is finally in! There was so much paperwork, some of it even had to be re-done several times because they lost it, he has been through several recruiters, he was officially denied because they thought he might have a knee injury, we had to get our congressman in Utah to write a letter to the Air Force Surgeon General, he got a medical waiver for his knee, he got officially denied after they re-submitted his paperwork with the waiver, we thought it was game over until almost a month later his recruiter called out of the blue to let him know that he was #2 on the waiting list for the 4-year scholarship, more waiting, and then he finally gets offered the scholarship! Of course it didn't end there though...then they had lost more of his paperwork which he then had to resubmit all over again, THEN I put his contract in the USPS mail not realizing I needed to put the envelope in a FedEx dropbox, it gets lost for a few days and we realize it needs to go to Utah and then Texas within four days or he won't get the scholarship, we re-do his whole contract and right after we put it in the mail we find out that the other contract had been found by FedEx and would get there the same day as the 2nd contract. Nightmare. Long list, right? 
BUT the one thing that makes all of the hoops Jayce had to jump through worth it was seeing God's hand in the process. When all hope seemed lost and we clung to one thin thread that things might still be able to work out, Heavenly Father made it happen. Trial after trial. It has been amazing to watch and we are forever grateful.


Here are pictures from the Jayce's commission:







It was pretty low key. The only requirements were that it be done by someone in the Air Force (maybe they needed to be a certain rank, I don't know. But Josh was able to do it for us...fun!) and that it be done in front of the flag. So, we figured we could do it at the church building that Lindsey and Josh go to because there are always flags on hand in chapels, right? Wrong! It took us forever to find some, and we didn't have any that were on poles. Josh folded one up to look nice and we just set it on the table we found in the Relief Society room. Woop! Woop! Haha. It worked! Afterwards we went to Panda Express (Jayce's favorite).


And here are a couple of videos:






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