I've Been Assigned!!

This is it!! My call has been assigned!!

I asked my bishop today if there was any update on my papers and he told me that the status still shows that they are "ready for assignment." But! I had heard that if you can log on to your missionary email, it means that you have been assigned, so just about every hour of the day today I tried to log on and then around 5 o'clock, I did it! I was able to log on!! So I checked with the bishop again and he told me that sometimes it can take up to 2 days for them to change the status of my papers.

I've been assigned!!

My bishop also told me that they usually mail out the calls on Tuesdays, so I'm really hoping that my call will be here on Wednesday or Thursday of next week!! Gah!!!

Really though I feel super relieved just to know that it's been assigned. It's one thing to wait for it to show up in the mail, and another for you to wait to be assigned. I don't even know how to explain the difference, I just know that I feel much better knowing that I have an assignment!

This is what my phone looks like right now. I keep checking it, thinking that a lot of time has gone by, and then I realize it's only been an hour or two. It's set for next Wednesday at 10am, even though I know it might take a little longer for my call to come. I'm just so excited!! I cannot wait to find out where I'm going!! (Even though Grace is convinced I'm going to Lubbock, Texas with her, haha)

I was hoping and praying to get assigned today, and now I'm going to spend the rest of this week hoping and praying that I'll be able to focus on school until my call comes! I don't know if I can do it!!

Anyway, I will DEFINITELY let you know when that magical, white envelope shows up at my door!!

Have a good weekend everyone! :)

My Papers Are In!!

I am sooooooo sorry that I haven't written in a long time. Actually, it's been over a month, sorry!!

I'll try to catch you up on everything, well that should be easy, not a whole lot has happened. As far as my mission papers go, they have been submitted! But that's pretty much it. I submitted them 9 days ago, and my best friend Grace got her call in just 11 days! So I was really hoping to get my call this week... and then I found out that my papers spent all last week just sitting in my stake presidents box. So I was kind of bummed about that. But he eventually sent them in and my bishop has been updating me on their progress. They made it to the mission department yesterday and this morning they were "ready for assignment." My bishop told me that they usually do the assignments on Thursdays, so if everything goes smoothly, they'll assign me on Thursday, mail it next Tuesday, and I'll have my call Wednesday or Thursday next week!

I'm so excited, I feel like I've been really busy getting my papers put together and everything, but when I look back I realize that 99% of what I've done has just been waiting. And that's where I'm stuck again, just waiting. I'm doing my best to fill the time with preparing myself spiritually for my mission, reading the scriptures, praying more regularly, studying Preach My Gospel, and, as many of you know, I'm taking a mission prep class from Brad Wilcox! He is amazing and I know that his class is really going to help me on my mission. I also want to start taking a temple prep class at church, but because of regional conference, the temple dedication, and general conference, our ward hasn't met in a while.

I'm also trying to prepare physically for my mission. In the mission handbook it says that missionaries go to bed at 10:30pm and wake up at 6:30am, so I've been trying to do that... kind of. Last night I went to bed at 11pm and this morning I got up at 7:30am so... I'm getting closer haha. I'm also trying to lose weight. I've been overweight my whole life and so I'm really trying to fix that. I've actually done a lot better since I've moved out on my own and closer to the Provo Rec Center. I try to go to the rec center 3-4 times a week and I can really tell a difference. The difference might not be visible yet, but I feel so much better. I still need to work on eating better haha. Working at an ice cream place doesn't really inspire me to eat healthy, but I'm doing my best. I have lost a few pounds and I hope they keep coming off. I'll try to keep you updated on that as well.

I know that as I do my best to prepare both physically and spiritually, I will be blessed. I can already tell how blessed I am to even be going on a mission and to be making physical and spiritual improvement. I am so thankful to Heavenly Father for the opportunity I have to go on a mission and I'm thankful that I have this amazing, healthy body to carry me through.

I love you all, thank you for your love and support as I prepare to serve. :)