My 3/4th Birthday

Exactly 9 months after my 20th birthday, I received probably the most important mail of my life. My roommate texted me: "Kelsey Kelsey Kelsey!!!!! It's here it's here it's here!!!!!!!" I had been expecting my mission call letter to arrive in the mail for a few days and had started to get impatient. Finally, Friday morning, it came while I was at work. After receiving that text, work seemed to go by so slowly. I started telling everyone about it and making plans to open it with my family and friends around. When I got home, I got my family on Skype and opened the letter to find out where I was going. 

I was completely caught off-guard. I could be asked to serve anywhere around the world and I knew if I started hoping for a certain place or telling people where I didn't want to go, I would jinx myself and that's exactly where I would go. All I knew was that I had been born in Idaho (Nampa, to be exact), grown up in Washington, and was currently living in Utah. So surely I wouldn't be called to any of those states. Me going to an Idaho mission wasn't even a possibility in my mind. How wrong I was. 

So here I am, starting the preparations for my mission to Nampa, Idaho. I will be teaching the gospel in Spanish, so I get to go to the Missionary Training Center in Mexico City. That's pretty exciting. I don't leave til November 27th, so I have a solid 4+ months to prepare. 
I'd say that's a pretty great 3/4th birthday gift.