sue!!!! i indeed got your 2 packages today! thank you sooo very much i love the ties and the candy. but yea i find out all my traveling information on monday we have a big meeting and stuff but if its anything like the other missionaries in the past i should leave tuesday morning at about 5 AM which is about 1 AM your time i believe haha so yea thats really all i know thus far about the whole traveling thing. cant wait to get my christmas box. when people say missions are tough they were not kidding one bit i know its going to be tough but we also need these hard moments to grow and progress cause with every hard moment rich blessings come after it and your testimony, relationship with heavenly father and your strength grows. i am so excited to get out into the field and i know the first couple months or so are going to be tough but i also know the lord wants to me become the best son of god i can become and the only way to do that is by teaching me through trials. but i love a good challenge and i know our savior is preparing certain people for me right now to teach and i need to be knocking at their doorstep when he needs me to for i am his tool and his mouthpiece. elder holland has a talk that says while your on your mission it is the most apostolic you can be in your life without being an actual profet never thought of it that way and i think it is totally awesome. this week is just full of review we have to take an oral and written test on monday so were just reviewing and practing for that. this is the ultimate definition of bittersweet i want to leave im sick of it here kind of but at the same time this place is my home and i love it here so much people including but i know life is about change and i need the change. so yeah not to much else to say other than keep living the gospel keep doing whats right keep being the barton family i know and love. i might be able to email you all monday night so watch out but im not completely sure so thats just a little heads up. oh saturday proselyting hermano catala came with us and i learned so much about missionary work just hands on learning it was awesome i totally grew on saturday and it just got me that much more excited for the field.