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Leaving on a Jet Plane

We got our travel plans! This time next week, I'll be sitting in LAX waiting for our flight to Santiago. Our whole district is going in the same group on the same flights, except for Elder Corliss. We don't know if he's even leaving yet. We still have 8 in our travel group, though. Elder Palmer and I had the opportunity to meet the other elder that is coming with us. His name is Elder Strait and he is the only one in his entire zone going to Chile. He got here the same week as us and is leaving the same day obviously, but he's in another zone and we haven't seen him around until we were hosting this last week. Anyway, I'll give you our schedule:

We leave the MTC at 3 AM
Leave SLC at 6 AM and Land in LAX at 7 their time.
Leave LAX at 12:20 PM (We have 5 hours of layover)
Arrive in Santiago at 6:35 AM the next morning(Chile Time).
Leave Santiago at 9:45 AM
Land in Concepcion at 10:50 AM to be met by Church Representatives.

Elder Ahart is our travel leader, as all Zone Leaders, District Leaders and Coordinating sisters are dissolved when we leave. We're getting a new district this week with 6 elders and 3 hermanas. The Elders are all going to Mexico, but I can't remember about the Hermanas. That's sister Singleton's job. :)

I don't know if Elder Palmer and I will host new missionaries this week, but I'll keep my eye out for Malcolm. I saw Annie Vincent the other day and a couple of times since. She's heading off to Nashville. Mat Thompson leaves tomorrow for Cali and I saw another from EFY, Kevin Ellsworth. He's heading to Cali as well.

We're working hard and we've committed 2 other people to baptism: Angela and Tomas. We're real excited to get out in the real world. Elder Palmer made the comment this morning about forgetting the real world exists. We're just in a tiny world of the Gospel here in the MTC.

We won't get to Email on Monday, considering we'll be flying all day.

Don't forget to have a happy, merry, Feliz Navidad!

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