MTC Tomorrow!!

Well its finally here, I go to the MTC tomorrow! I just want to thank everyone that has been so supportive. It has been so amazing the amount of support I have gotten since word got out about my mission call and I really appreciate it! I will hopefully be updating this blog every week but everyone should still write me! my address and email are on the side so feel free to write :)

Mission Pics

 I was excited to go get mission pictures. My Aunt Jenie is so amazing and does such a great job! I love her so much and it was so great to get to spend the weekend with their awesome family!

 I think this scripture is so important for me because I have never doubted my faith but its all the little worldly things that I will need to overcome for my to be a successful missionary.

Family Pictures- April 5, 2013

 We for sure needed to get some new family pictures. We missed last year for family pictures so I'm glad we got some:) These were just taken in Castle Dale. There are some old buildings on Main street that were just perfect for pictures, sadly I think they will be torn down by the time I come home or at least that is the cities plans.

   Awh I Love my sibling even if we don't always get along. I will always love and support them

                               This is the official family picture.

                                        My beautiful Sister. I Love Her!!

                            Cass is such a poser ;) I love this picture

One Week Left!

It just hit me how close it is until I leave! As much as I am excited, nervousness is starting to set it. I think this week will be the hardest for me. Its just getting out there, and I will be all set. I am not someone who would quit and come home so I know that once I am out there I wont be coming home for 18 months :)

My Farewell, April 28 2013

I just want to thank everyone that came to my farewell! When I first got my, actually when I started my paper I said I didn't want to have a farewell. Trying to invite people to something that I am throwing stresses me out. I sit and worry if anyone is going to come at all so I usually don't do it. But the amount of love and support I got was so amazing!! I always feel with talks in church that I let myself down and don't do as good as I could. The fact that the second overflow was close to be filled up was so awesome! I just cant believe how much support there was for me and T.J. Thanks everyone!!

Going To The Temple- April 4, 2013

Going to the temple was such an overwhelming but AMAZING experience! Once i got my call I saw that I only had 6 weeks till I left, and to my luck the temple that I planned on going to was closed for the majority of April. So my choices were to hurry and go before it closed or to wait until right before I leave to go. I wanted to be able to go as much as I could before I left so I chose to go on April 4th. I was so amazed by how my whole family changed their plans on such short notice to be there. that was a Thursday which works better for my family but not for most people but all of my family members that could came all the way down to Manti, Utah just to be there for me. On the ride over I started to get a little panicked. I had read the scriptures my dad told me to read and I had taken Temple Prep (Twice!) but like I said in my last post i'm a control freak so going into the unknown was terrifying! Once I got there though I felt such peace, being in the house of god just has that effect on you. The workers are so nice and they understand that since its your first time you have no idea and they are more then willing to help you in every way. I'm glad I decided to focus on the spirit instead of trying to remember everything that happened. I decided to have only family attend because it was such a sacred thing that I didn't want to sit there and focus on who was coming or who to invite. I wanted to be surrounded by people who will always love and support me and i'm so happy i made that decision. It was so special! It was so amazing and i'm so glad that I decided to go early so I have had a least one opportunity to go again and hopefully more before I leave!

My Amazing parents who have always been so supportive 

Getting ready to go in. It was so windy that day!

Grandma and Grandpa Labrum

Uncle Brad and Aunt Jenie, Grandma and Grandpa Labrum, My parents and Me, and Aunt Heather. My Uncle Blake and Aunt Sherlyn were also there but just running a little bit late!

Getting My Call- March 21, 2013

Getting your call is so nerve racking! I am sort of a control freak so waiting all day to open the envelope that says where you are going to spend the next 18 months of your life was so hard. I wanted to secretly open it by myself but I knew this was something that my parents were so excited about so I waited patiently... ( well maybe not so much) for all my family to get home from their various practices and meetings. Once I finally got to open I got called to ... Oregon, Eugene Mission... That was not where I was expecting to go at all! My bishop kept talking about New York to me so I thought for sure that was where I was going. I knew I wanted to stay state side so that was no surprise to me but I wasn't expecting that side of the country. It made me laugh because a few days earlier i had commented about the fact that a couple of people in our ward had big O's on the back of their cars. Obviously a sign that i would be heading there haha. Once I got over the shock of it all I was very excited. Everyone tells me that it is just BEAUTIFUL there! I have never been one who payed super close attention to nature, I mean I love hiking and going to the lake but just looking out and appreciating nature will be a new experience for me!

Waiting "Patiently" to open it!