One Week!!!

It still hasn't hit me yet that I will be on a mission in 8 days. I can't believe that I go into the MTC one week from tomorrow! I have two shifts left at the Jungle Cruise - 6 hours tonight and 12 hours tomorrow. I'm really glad I finished writing my farewell talk last week on my last day off. I haven't had much time too work on it the last few days. I've been working for the last 7 days straight, so with these last 2, that makes 9 days straight. Its crazy insane! I hope these crazy schedules here at Disney don't make getting used to the mission schedule too difficult. I really just realized yesterday that my birthday is this Friday LOL.
I'm super excited! I have almost everything packed up and ready to go. I just have to pack up my backpack with my books/electronics I'm taking on the plane and whatever else doesn't fit into a box to ship home. I can't wait to be with my family again for a few days before the mission. I'm also looking forward to going to the temple with my parents again before I leave. I still can hardly believe that time has gone by so fast. I'm definitely going to miss my friends that I've made while I've been here in Orlando working at Walt Disney World, but I know that we are going to try and keep in touch. Thank goodness for Facebook ;-) LOL I don't know how I'd be able to keep in touch with my friends from all over the world otherwise.
I can't wait to finally be in the MTC because I'm so ready to be there.

Let the countdown begin!

It's Getting Closer!!

I can hardly believe that I get home from Florida in 12 days and I go into the MTC in 18 days!!! This also means that I turn 23 in 13 days and I get my MTC address for my birthday!! :-D Holy Cow! Time is passing by so fast! I still have so much to do! I ordered my shoes, and they arrived at my house yesterday, so that's one more thing I can check off of my to-do list. I have to start packing up my stuff here in Orlando and making sure I can fit my things into my suitcases LOL. My farewell talk is almost written... I have quotes and stories, now I just need to arrange them with my thoughts so they are coherent and will fit into the 20 minute limit I was given. Right now, I think I have so many things I can say with my topic I could probably speak for an hour. LOL.

Nervous Anticipation!

Oh my goodness! I looked up the MTC website to see if they had my entry date posted. They did and I found out I enter the MTC at 1:25pm on August 17th! This is totally crazy! I can't believe that it is so close that I actually know the time I go in! I have the nervous butterflies again just like I did the day I opened my call! If you can't tell, I'm very excited!!! ;-) (I seem to be over-using exclamation points lol) I've got my farewell talk topic and I've been working on that too. Life is getting crazy busy now! I feel like there is still so much to do and so little time to do it in! But, I know that if I had another 6 months to prepare, I would still feel the same way LOL

Called to Serve!

I have been called to serve in the West Indies Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  I am super excited!!  I received my call in the mail on Thursday April 21, 2011 and I was sure I was going somewhere cold, like Vermont or somewhere in Canada.  When I opened the call and read: "You are assigned to labor in the West Indies Mission... You should report to the Provo Missionary Training Center on Wednesday, August 17, 2011.  You will prepare to preach the gospel in the English Language..." I think my jaw about hit the floor with astonishment.
Going somewhere warm, let alone in the Caribbean, had not even crossed my mind.  From the day my mission papers were submitted, I could not get the song, "I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go" out of my head.  I was so nervous waiting for the call to come!