Talked to Hermana Cornwall This Morning!!!

I had asked Sarah last week if she would be able to call from the airport on the day she flies out.  She said that she would not be able to call and I was feeling O.K. with that instruction.  So Dad and I were very pleasantly surprised when the phone rang this morning at 5:30 a.m. and there was Hermana Cornwall on the other end of the phone!!!
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We talked for about 45 minutes.  She had said she was a little worried when her companion's tardiness made them the very last set of missionaries to the travel office in the MTC this morning and then last on the bus.  This put their luggage off the bus first at the airport. They got to check in first, get through security first and get to the pay phones first! 
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She sounded upbeat, happy, excited, mature, prepared, anxious to get to work and thrilled that her entire family had all sent her a 'Dear Elder' yesterday. (Yes Reesa - she got the package!!)  She talked about the Mission President's Training broadcast on Sunday and singing in the choir.   We asked her to speak some Spanish.  She bore her testimony in Spanish (Dad and I thought her Spanish was awesome, but we may not be good judges of that).  She said a few other things in Spanish because she said, "I don't know how to say them in English".  She talked about how much she loved the MTC, that she had been blessed with the gift of tongues and was now ready to go forth and serve in the Santa Rosa Mission.  She was joined with 30 other missionaries who were going to Santa Rosa.  Fifteen of those going are Spanish speaking Sisters.  There were bus loads of other missionaries at the Salt Lake Airport.  A bunch are coming to the California Arcadia Mission so she told them all about President and Sister Becerra and what a great area they were going to.
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Dad and I are so thankful to hear how ready she feels to serve.  I did really well until she said - talk to you on Christmas - that somehow seemed very very very far away.