Showing posts with label Uruguay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uruguay. Show all posts

May 15, 2013

Fifty



50 days.
50 days until I enter the Argentina MTC.
50 days until I am emerged in a different culture.
50 days until I wear a badge everyday saying Hermana Coon.
50days until I begin my new life as a missionary for 
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
50days exactly and I can't wait!

Uruguay, here I come! I'm ready to work!

April 16, 2013

Mondays are good days

It's 12:08am and I can't sleep. Nights like these are happening more often. 

I don't know why. 

Maybe it's because my mind is racing with a million different thoughts: my mission, school, what I'm going to eat for breakfast, things like that.
Or maybe I can't sleep because I got a sweet email from Elder Boyd earlier today...
Ya, that's probably why! 

Mondays have become such well anticipated days for me. It has been so fun for me to get weekly, personalized emails just for me from my best friend who is serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nicaragua! It's so fun to hear about Grant's successes and to see his testimony grow and grow and grow! He's such an awesome, 'on fire,' missionary who is changing many lives!

AND, what's so cool is that in a couple of months our lives will be very similar again...We'll both be in South America (Grant in Nicaragua, me in Uruguay) preaching this wonderful gospel to those who are searching for the truth. I can't wait! The church is true, oh so true!



(Don't these pictures make you smile?)

I'm smiling.







#2011babyfaces


February 22, 2013

I hope they call me on a MISSION!!!

 I'm going on a MISSION to.....
***watch video to find out***


***drum roll please***


URUGUAY, MONTEVIDEO mission, 
SPANISH SPEAKING!!! 
I report to the Argentina MTC 
on July 4th, 2013!!!


I cannot explain in words how excited I am. 
I know that this is where I'm suppose to serve for 18 months of my life.
I already love the people of Uruguay and I don't even know them yet!

During my free time, I research Uruguay. I have found out that:

--Uruguayans are European, so about 80% of them have blonde hair and white skin.


--Even though it's in South America, they don't serve rice and beans, but a lot of meat and empenadas.
--They have a beautiful temple.


--Uruguay LOVES soccer.
--Their seasons are opposite of ours, so when I leave in the middle of summer here, 
it will be middle of winter there!



I have until now and July 4th to prepare as much as I can and to lose my Gringo accent...
Ready, set, GO!