Aeromexico

Yesterday I got the most exciting email ever! It was from the Missionary Travel Department in Salt Lake City. My flight itinerary is all set! 

I am booked and confirmed to leave from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport at 2:15pm on Wednesday October 30th and I will be arriving at the Mexico City Juarez Intl Airport at 9:05pm. After I pass through immigration, get my luggage, go through customs, and find the person from the MTC that is supposed to pick up the missionaries, it is about a 30min drive to the MTC. 

Upon arrival at the MTC, from what I understand, I will receive my name tag, Spanish study materials, a companion, and a pillow and sheets for my bed.

Talk about a long day!

I wonder how I'll feel that night. Laying in my new bed, in the Mexico City MTC, having seen my family just hours before, and knowing I won't see them for 18 more months. Thinking of the name tag on the nightstand beside me and what it means when I will put it on in the morning. Hoping I will get along with my first companion for these next six weeks. Wondering if I'll ever be able to learn Spanish. Hoping I'll be a good missionary for those I will teach.

Those are just a few things that might be on my mind that first night...

I just hope I will be able to sleep because at 6:30am the next day I will be on the run! No time for jet lag, no time for relaxing, no time to think about myself. And I can't wait!

"Forget yourself and go to work."

-President Gordon B. Hinckley

My mission is getting more and more real every day.

Nineteen days! It's actually in the teens!