Seventy-Two Days

That's how much time I have to get everything ready to go on my mission. A friend of mine asked me yesterday "Are you feeling a little overwhelmed?" and I replied back "A LITTLE???????? Try... A lot." Its all so much to take in! Don't get me wrong I am SO excited! But I have to keep reminding myself: one week at a time. That's all I have to do. Once this week is over I'll worry about next week. And so on, and so on. This whole process is going to teach me even more patience. Especially when it comes to my parents and answering questions from them. "Have you done this? When are you taking care of this? Are you reading this? What needs to be done next?" And so on, and so on. I guess the questions don't really bug all that much...its the fact that they never seem to be able to coordinate WHEN they are asking questions so I always feel like I'm answering them a billion times over...No worries though, I still haven't ruled out setting up a weekly press conference so that they can get all their questions out at once :) There is so much that needs to be done that I hadn't thought about before. Passport, clothing, going through the temple, pictures (family AND mission), luggage, shoes, coats, and so on, and so on. Thats not even half the list! One week at a time...One week at a time. I thought it would be LESS stressful once I got my call...HA! It'll be less stressful once I'm actually IN Canada :) 14 weeks until then though...patience is DEFINITELY a virtue!