69 More Days

Hi y'all!
So, we are now down to 69 more days until I leave home to serve the Lord. It's crazy how fast time has been flying. It feels like I just barely got my mission call, but that was almost two months ago! The closer my report date comes, the more and more excited I get.
There's this facebook page called, Many Are Called...But Few Are Sisters. It's this amazing place where THOUSANDS of future sister missionaries, or returned missionaries. It's a page where women all over the world can meet others that are preparing for the same exact thing as they are. Everyone is supportive of each other, offering advice and guidance for our preparation. It's an amazing online community. So anyways, on this page, I posted my call and when I'd be reporting and immediately I found 2 other girls going to the same mission, on the same day! Shout out to Maryn and Linda. Soon we were able to find 7 of us total that will be going to Salt Lake City! We made a group chat and we've all had the opportunity to talk and get to know each other before we are even on our missions! It crazy to think that one, or even several of them, could be my future companion! They are all super great. We all have so much in common!
We were all chattin about music and how many of us love to sing, and I realized that we may get to sing in General Conference! Sometimes during conference they have an MTC choir sing and I will be in the MTC during conference! I don't know if it will happen or not, but if it does that would be the most amazing experience.
There's been many amazing things that have happened since receiving my call, but at the same time, I definitely feel Satan trying to get at me. Now that I have been called to serve, Satan will be doing all that he can to stop me from preparing the best I can. I'm going to the Portland Temple on Saturday to take out my endowments. This is a sacred ordinance required for exaltation. It's a very special day for my family and I, especially since I will be going through the same temple we were all sealed to each other in. Family is the most important thing to me and this day is supposed to be perfect, but as I've been preparing to go through, I've also been very prideful and contentious. I've held in anger and pushed my family away when I'm supposed to be drawing myself closer to them for this wonderful opportunity I have on Saturday. After getting some sense knocked into me, I realized that I was doing exactly what Satan wanted me to do. I'm going to bury myself in scripture study and prayer so that I can be spiritually prepared to go through the temple and that I can do so happily with my loving family by my side. We have our ups and downs, but I still wouldn't trade them for anyone else.

#TBT to when my family was sealed for time and all eternity in the Portland, Oregon temple. I believe that even after death, my family will be together forever. I will see them again and live with them again in the kingdom of Heaven. This is possible because of temples and sealings.  "Here [in the holy temple of our Lord], under the true priesthood power of God, we are bound together in the most sacred of all human relationships—as husbands and wives, as children and parents, as families under a sealing that time cannot destroy and death cannot disrupt." –Gordon B. Hinckley"
Although, I don't remember anything from this day, I was only 3, I know that it was the best day of my life. It is the greatest blessing to know that I will be with my loving mother and father forever. One day, I'll be able to go to the temple to be sealed to my future husband, and by doing so, be sealed to my future children as well.  I'm so grateful for the opportunity I have to go on my mission and teach of God's eternal plan. I can't wait to go out and tell all  of Salt Lake City what makes me happy, and that they too can have the same happiness.

I have a fam'ly here on earth.
They are so good to me.
I want to share my life with them through all eternity.

Fam'lies can be together forever
Through Heav'nly Father's plan.
I always want to be with my own family,
And the Lord has shown me how I can.
The Lord has shown me how I can.

While I am in my early years,
I'll prepare most carefully,
So I can marry in God's temple for eternity.

Fam'lies can be together forever
Through Heav'nly Father's plan.
I always want to be with my own family,
And the Lord has shown me how I can.
The Lord has shown me how I can.