I'm going on a full time mission!

Well its offical i will be serving a full time mission in the stlouis missouri mission on dec 19 and will report at the frontenac chapel at 10am at the transfer meeting and will be introduced to my companion who will train me for 12 weeks and will be off to our new area and serve until sept 2012 full time and i am so excited! i have been serving as a service missionary at the st louis missouri temple as a temple apatron and my calling was for a year which would be over in june since i started in june 2011, however i would still be a branch missionary until september so right now the end date is sept 2012 but president clark said it could be extended depending on our progress. I started filling out my mission papers in april 2010 and in  sept 2010 i recieved a letter from salt lake saying i was not accepted for a full time mission which devestated me since i dreamed of going on a misssion my whole life but after i was told i could serve a service mission and the temple was on the list of service missions they send to my bishop so i chose the temple and got permission from the temple presidency and found out the temple didnt have a full time service missionary in the temple since it first opened and they made my calling in the temple especially for me so i have been very blessed to serve in the temple and be there everyday but now i will be in the missouri mission full time so i had to say goodbye to the temple and hello to missouri. i created this blog to record my mission experiences and my mom will update it for me but i never want to forget anything about my misson and want to keep those who worked so hard to get me not one but two wonderful missions updated and aware of me in missouri, i wish i made a blog for the temple mission but this makes up for it. so enjoy and know i love you all and hope this blog inspires and motivates you. so close and yet so far