i'm not sure if any of you have realized, but i'm leaving for CHILE in 4 DAYS! kind of a big deal. so i got my travel plans last week, and i need to be at the travel office at FOUR IN THE MORNING, so i can be at the airport for an early flight on monday. i can't believe it. it's so so so weird that it's somehow already been 9 weeks, and already i'm about to leave for some foreign country where i'll be expected to speak spanish and have some idea what i'm doing. i literallty feel like i jut got here! but at the same time, i feel like i've learned so much about myself and become a better person just in these 9 weeks. it's amazing how much the lord can touch your heart when you're open to it. the nice thing is that i think i've finally gotten to the point where i'm more excited to leave here than nervous, so that's been reassuring. going to chile will definitely be quite the adventure, and i'm looking forward to spending about 35 hours traveling across the world so i can teach those chilenos about something that's so close to my heart, and that can bring them the same happiness that i've felt.
other than that big news, pretty much everything else here is the same as usual. OH! except that we had some fun christmas celebrations at the mtc! we got to have a special church meeting with everyone in the mtc (usually we just meet in smaller groups and have a few speakers and take the sacrament, but this time we did it together with all 2,000+ missionaries). it was a really cool experience, and i loved just being able to see how many of us there really are! after that we had a really good lunch with turkey, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, stuffing, and cheesecake (which i think is super gross, but others seemed pretty excited about it...) then we got to watch a broadcast of the mormon tabernacle choir, which was AMAZING! i love love love christmas (check out the posts on my other blog for evidence) and especially christmas music, so it was a really nice treat. we also had another fireside with a speaker who was pretty much hilarious. he kept cracking all these jokes at us, and was prety sarcastic a lot of the time, but he was so great. he shared a message about how to be a successful missionary, and how to return home a more faithful person than when you left. it really gave me a lot to think about, and helped me become that much more excited to get out there and teach. after that we watched mr. kreuger's christmas (with jimmy stewart), then got to go back to our residence an hour early for some personal time! it was SUCH a great christmas. as for new years, i can't imagine that we'd be doing anything too crazy, considering the fact that we're missionaries, but i imagine that they might do something special on saturday evening, but we still don't know. i'll probably find out tomorrow. i'll let you know next week i guess!
AND (this is completely unrelated to anything i just said, but i just want you to know...), they've kept the christmas lights on outside, which seriously makes my day every time i see them. i definitely would've been a little upset if they'd decided to turn them off after christmas...that's all.
well, this is it. the last time i'll be writing within the united states of america. phew. that's a little scary. but kind of SUPER COOL at the same time! i hope you all had a fun and safe christmas with your family and friends, and i look forward to updating you all again next week (not sure of the day yet) when i'm a real-life (no longer in training) missionary! thank you, sincerely, for your love and support. although i don't always hear from you, i know that i have friends and family back home that love me and that want the best for me. thank you for that. i'm so lucky to have you. '
-hermana wright
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