Yayyyyy!! Josher and Jen! I'm so happy for both of you! I love little Presley already. And I knew that that was her name, anyway. I could feel it in my bones. Are you just adoring her? Ohhh!!! I love the pictures and news. Congratulations from the bottom of my heart. Yindii Duay!!!
I feel so loved and so blessed, once again, for a few reasons. To name a few: I got to go to the temple today for the last time for sixteen months. We spent three and a half hours there, and I felt so much love from Heavenly Father. It is such a wonderful, perfect place. Another reason: I leave for Thailand in six days:). Another reason: I have treats and love and letters coming out my ears. I have the best family and friends and the world and you are all far too good to me. Thank you for the packages and love and encouragement.
Okay. So the most exciting part of this week was hands down getting flight plans. I don't know why a piece of paper that tells me my flight itinerary brought so much excitement to my soul....but let me tell you what...it totally did. We all were sitting in class and our District Leader pulled out an envelope with all our flight plans and we all freaked and he placed them on our desks, all face down, counted to three....and BAM! In 1.7 seconds, it became 88 times more real that we are going to be in the field on September 5. 7th actually after the time changes and travel time.
We leave Monday at 10 pm. To San Fran. To Honk Kong (which I hear is a pretty rad airport) to Thailand, to arrive at 10 am. I'm so so so very excited. I love the Thai language and I feel as though I've learned almost everything I can here. I have sooo far to go, though, so Thailand will be great for me. I am expecting quite a humbling first few weeks. But humility is when we're the most teachable. So that means I will just learn lots more. Which is totally up my ally.
I'm not sad to leave the MTC, as much as I've loved it. The group of 11 missionaries that I've lived with and learned with for the past 9 weeks have taught me so much and we've all grown a lot together. I think the most trying and equally the most rewarding part has been learning how to communicate with and love my companion. Josh said that if I love all my comps but one, I failed that part of my mission. So I determined that every single companionship would be one I loved.
Okay. So the most exciting part of this week was hands down getting flight plans. I don't know why a piece of paper that tells me my flight itinerary brought so much excitement to my soul....but let me tell you what...it totally did. We all were sitting in class and our District Leader pulled out an envelope with all our flight plans and we all freaked and he placed them on our desks, all face down, counted to three....and BAM! In 1.7 seconds, it became 88 times more real that we are going to be in the field on September 5. 7th actually after the time changes and travel time.
We leave Monday at 10 pm. To San Fran. To Honk Kong (which I hear is a pretty rad airport) to Thailand, to arrive at 10 am. I'm so so so very excited. I love the Thai language and I feel as though I've learned almost everything I can here. I have sooo far to go, though, so Thailand will be great for me. I am expecting quite a humbling first few weeks. But humility is when we're the most teachable. So that means I will just learn lots more. Which is totally up my ally.
I'm not sad to leave the MTC, as much as I've loved it. The group of 11 missionaries that I've lived with and learned with for the past 9 weeks have taught me so much and we've all grown a lot together. I think the most trying and equally the most rewarding part has been learning how to communicate with and love my companion. Josh said that if I love all my comps but one, I failed that part of my mission. So I determined that every single companionship would be one I loved.
Sister Roper
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