Five weeks to go

Yesterday I had the wonderful pleasure of visiting my cousin, who recently returned from serving, with her husband, a mission in Holland. They reported their experiences in sacrament meeting in their ward, along with their son, who just returned from serving in Washington State. After the meeting, we all gathered at their home and I had nice visit with her and really learned about some of the details of work in Europe. Besides the financial, practical, cultural and political details, the main value of the experience was that I could really feel the great and wonderful blessing of serving the Lord among the people there. It made the mission seem that much closer and real.

Also over the weekend (Friday, really) we contacted a coordinator at the MTC concerning language training. Since we are only in the MTC for 7 days, there will only be minimal experience in learning German there. We are to set up some Skype-based language instruction for the next weeks and then after Christmas we hope to have some days at the MTC in immersion experiences in the language before officially entering the MTC.

Exactly 5 weeks until then!