Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Moving!!!









Hey everyone!! Wow, it's been way too long since I posted anything!! I will put up some pictures to catch everyone up!! So... a quick rundown of my life since September: I finished the Fall semester and headed down with the family to Brazil!! I'm sure you have all seen pictures by now! Then I got back and was super busy catching up in school, then my best friend, Andrew Chester, was baptized! It was so great to be a part of that!!! Then the Olympics came around... I got to touch a famous country singer... haha... and then my Church dedicated a temple in Vancouver! Now that's worth talking about! We have over 20,000 chapels all over the world but only 130 temples.. well, now 131! :) The President of the Church, the Prophet, Thomas S. Monson came and dedicated it! Also, the same weekend, before he dedicated the temple, 1,200 youth performed a show of the history of BC and the Saints here. I was a counsellor during that weekend for 20 of those amazing youth! Being responsible for 20 kids on my own, and having them all have to be at all different locations throughout the day made me appreciate mothers just a bit more!! My group were 12-14 years old... so it was a bit hard to keep them together and engaged in everything! But we all had a ton of fun! The Prophet spoke to them before the show and it was so great!!! We have truly been incredibly blessed! So that Sunday the temple was dedicated in 3 sessions. (Technically it was in the first one, but they do the other two for people to get a chance to attend, especially parents.) I got to be in the sealing room (where families are sealed together for time and all eternity) for the first session!! So I got to be INSIDE THE TEMPLE!!! I was sooo blessed to have that opportunity!! The feelings of the Spirit were so strong there and it was such an amazing event to take part in!! I actually got to be in the temple for the third dedicatory session as well!! It happened out of the blue (because you have to be offered, you can't just get a ticket). So now, we have a temple!!!! :) YAY!! Also, I found out that they are renovating the Buenos Aires temple!! And they'll have to re-dedicate it!! I hope I get to be there!!!
So that updates you to the first weekend of May! Now, I am moving to Utah!!!! I leave on Sunday! I will be going with my best friend Sophie Gatt and we are spending a week in Alberta first, then a night in Montana, and then s few days in Provo, UT! Then my friend might fly up from Arizona and then we will drive down to Mesa, AZ for me to meet his family! :) And then I start school at BYU!! I am going down there for the summer term! I am going into 3rd year Spanish (which is what we call "RM Spanish".. for the returned missionaries that served in Spanish-speaking countries)!! The really cool thing is, I am also taking a 16-credit exam which gives me credit for the first 2 years of Spanish too! So I will have 20 Spanish credits by the end of the Summer! I am also taking another class, probably a religion class... but maybe Linear Algebra.. I guess we'll see when I get there!!
I am living on Campus at Wyview Park. It is an apartment, with two roommates! I get my own room and they share one. It's $325 for two months!! How insane is that!? haha. I love how cheap Utah is!!
So I guess that's it!! I'm just working now... my last day is on Friday.. and trying to find time for everthing!! It's a little bit crazy!
I am super excited, but quite nervous!! I will miss the family... and Mami especially... :( BUT it will be a great growing experience and I will be FORCED to cook for myself.... I already found a website "studentrecipes.com" haha. It should get me through the summer! Let's hope so anyway! :)

Love you all and I really hope everything is well!! Bi, we want pictures of your little belly as soon as you can see it!!

Besos a todos!!!!!!

Cami

PS - I am hoping to go to Argentina in September for a few months. Just get a job and practice my Spanish!! SO... I am looking for jobs at the moment, any help would be amazing! :)