Farewell

It's all not real to me yet. I enter the MTC (Missionary Training Center) in Provo on Wednesday November 14, 2007. (I felt I had to clarify what MTC stood for because I was talking to a guy I was working with the other day and he thought I was saying "empty sea" and I thought that was really funny.) Anyway, my plane flies out from Phoenix to Salt Lake early Tuesday morning and I'll spend the day up there with my Aunt Loni and Uncle Marvin who will take me to the MTC the next day. Craziness! It seems like just yesterday I was only thinking about maybe going on a mission and now I'm really going to spend the next year and a half of my life in West Virginia.
It's tradition for a missionary to speak in church before they leave so I will be speaking in my ward (Tempe University 3rd Ward at the ASU Institute Building- 1000 S. McAllister Ave, Tempe , AZ 85282) on Sunday, Nov. 13. The meeting starts at 9 a.m. if anyone would like to come.
My younger brothers came down from Cedar City, UT to spend the weekend with me before I leave, so my whole family is here! That doesn't happen very often. This weekend is going to be busy, busy with all the little last minute things I need to do before I go. It's a bit overwhelming. I don't think the whole mission thing is going to really hit me until I've been in the MTC for a few days!