36 Days and Counting!

Yay! Mission blog!  I started this blog so that my family and friends (you all reading this) would be able to keep up with all that I am going to be doing.  I will be giving everything up to serve a full-time mission, even forms of contact with the people I love.  This blog will fill the gap for most of you so that you all can be a part of what I'm doing while I'm away.

I have 36 Days left until I report to the Provo Missionary Training Center to begin my missionary training.  I will be serving in the Italy Milan Mission from May 2013 - November 2014.  I am so excited to serve as a full-time missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  This is what I have been waiting my whole life for. Ever since I was a little girl, I knew I would serve a mission, and now the time has come!  This is so exciting for me.  Especially because I am serving in the country that I have been dying to go to, speaking the language that I love the most, and being with the people that I already love and want to serve.

I received my mission call on January 20th, and I was extremely happy, surprised, shocked, filled with joy, stunned, flabbergasted, etc.  It was the best day of my life.  I have been preparing and waiting, as patiently as possible, to get to the day when I start my training and begin serving in Italy.

I'm excited to be able to share my experiences with you all.  Thank you for supporting me and being willing to keep updated with all that I'm doing.

I love this Gospel.  I love Jesus Christ, Our Saviour.  I know that this is His church, restored on the earth.  This is His work and I am so glad that I will be a part of it.