Wednesday CAME!

It was more exciting than Christmas!  And I'm not even kidding.  When I saw the mail truck on my street...  well it was kind of like Dash from the Incredibles.  As in speedy quick.  I was just so smiley and happy and I've never hugged an envelope so much in my life!  Because within that envelope were the contents of my life for the next year and a half, as I put my life on hold to serve the Lord as a full time missionary.  Better.  Than.  Christmas.

The trouble with that kind of excitement is that it makes waiting seem about ten years longer.  And the 2.5 hours waiting to open it was actually a decade.  At first I just sat there staring at it.  Until I started to drive myself and my family crazy.  I tried to occupy my mind in vain.  A big white envelope addressed to Sister Ann Marie Hyde consumed my every thought.  It still is, in fact. 

I can't fully explain to you the feelings I had when opening that envelope.  Excitement, joy, some nerves, shaking and tears.  Mostly I think it was peace.  A quiet reassurance that this is what I'm supposed to be doing.  And when I read that letter signed by a prophet of God, I felt like I already knew.  Of course I would be going there!  I feel so happy and content knowing that I'm doing what I need to be doing at this point in my life.  Yes it will be hard, but I can do hard things.  So get ready because Sister Hyde is going on a mission.

Called to serve in the California, Santa Rosa mission.  English speaking.  I am so so blessed!

March 7, will you ever come?