My life has been super exciting this week. My call arrived Wednesday afternoon with the mail and I opened it that night amidst friends and several cell phones being used to call family. To my great surprise (and everyone else's, no one even came close to guessing right) I was called to serve in the Philippines Iloilo mission and I will be speaking Tagalog. This happens to be a relatively new mission, which makes everything even more exciting. More than likely, if you are reading this, you have already seen the posts all over facebook or received a text or phone call. So I'm sure you already know, but I figured the blog would be somewhat incomplete without a post on where I'm going.
A few fun random things that happened the night of receiving the call. Shortly after learning where I would go, I looked in my mission packet for the mission map. I discovered that there isn't yet a map for this mission because of how new it is. I realized that knowing where in the Philippines my mission was didn't really matter much because I didn't actually know where the Philippines were. I proceeded to a friends apartment to look at their large map and locate the approximate location of where my mission was. I then became extremely excited about the fact that I get to go somewhere warm! Let's just hope I don't come home to severely sun burnt.
The next day was filled with letting dozens of people know about the call that I hadn't gotten around to telling the day before. I also announced my call in my mission prep class and my sign language class, which was really fun because I signed the announcement (well- most of it, I went ahead and wrote the location on the board). All in all, The experience has been amazing. Although I would have never guessed it and had a million places in mind for where I wanted to go, it feels right. I know that I'm going where I am needed.
