January 29, 2014
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Guess who got travel plans? Hint: me. We got them earlier this week. It was so exciting. I have to be in the travel office at 2:30 AM Tuesday morning. I left the itinerary in my room but I will get back on to let you know all my flight info. I fly all by my wee little self to Dallas, then to New York, where I will pick up my visa for Macedonia and stay there a day and work with the sisters there!!! How awesome is that! I'm my group's travel leader, ha ha. Then the next day I fly to VIENNA and then straight into Skopje. I get there on the 6th.
This morning was our last visit to the temple for a year and a half!!! It was so sad. We did sealings though, which was awesome and I'd never done before. We started packing when we got back, and tomorrow we have in-field orientation all day and then I think on Sunday we have our departure devotional. Sister Lefler leaves the day before me, also at the crack of nothing o'clock but not quite as early as I'll have to get up. I'll be in a tri-panionship with the two new croatian sisters for a day. The only other one in our zone who is traveling alone is Elder Frahm, who's going to Leeds, England, Slovak-speaking. I told Sister Lefler a million times how it stinks I won't see any of them while I'm on my mission! All of them except for me and Elder Frahm will get to see each other at conferences and stuff.
A lot of cool stuff has happened but I always remember after I send you an email. Last week three elders in my class paid one of my teachers $60 to eat a banana with the peel. It's kind of weird because all of our teachers are more or less the same age as us. Two of my teachers, Brother Huish and Sister Tate, got married. I was talking to Brother Huish in the classroom yesterday about my mission, including how anxious/nervous I am to meet my companion, and he said, "I'm not gonna lie, you and her are pretty different. We were talking about it the other day. But when I went into Turkey" (he was one of the first missionaries when Turkey opened, he went there part way through his mission in Bulgaria and then went back to Bulgaria afterwards) "the four of us were all so different, but we are such good friends. We had a great companionship."
Deciding to come on a mission was seriously the best decision of my life. It was God who brought me here and God who will lead me here.
Love,
Lauren
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