November 3, 2008

Day light savings time is throwing me off.  I feel ready for bed way too soon now.  What's a typical P-Day for me?  I wake up and do my laundry.  After that's all done we drive 15 miles to the New Braunfels library.  You know, we all email and such.  After that, we go shop and play.  This P-Day we went fishing.  I caught 3 fish.  Pretty sweet!  I threw them back, of course.  I still don't know how I feel about fish.  I'm a lot less of a picky eater now that I have to eat everything.  After 6:00, we do normal missionary stuff, and at night I write letters.  

November 7, 2008

Journal sticker: "Discribe your airplane ride to the mission field and back home."  I was so excited to get on the plane and meet the President, my companion, and my first investigator.  Elder Leonard and Dutson were way excited too!  They both got seats together in the back of the plane (little did I know that this would be a foreshadowing of the mission field.)  I walked to my seat thinking the plane was tiny.  I had to scrunch down because the ceiling was so low.  I was seated by myself.  It was slightly depressing to be seated away from all the other missionaries, but I practiced my spanish the whole way.  There was tons of turbulence landing.  I'm for sure that wasn't normal.  As for the ride home... I expect a bigger plane.  I expect to sit with my friends. 

As for Elder Dutson and Elder Leonard being a foreshadowing... You see, they have always been together in the mission field.  As a matter of fact, they are both serving in Riverside right now.  It is in Austin and it's a completely spanish speaking ward.  There are 6 elders that belong to this ward.  These 6 elders go to church together and eat dinner together.  I am only a little jealous!  :)  They get to see each other every day.

Doesn't praying for help on things like cello seem so cool?  It really does help.  I love how the Lord will help you out when you ask.  LOL!  For some things...  Funny story.  You remember my way swollen eye?  Well, the night before I prayed for help getting wicked sweet abs.  I think the eye was the Lord telling me to be a little less vain and worry more about the work.