so mom and dad are in uruguay picking up julianna! i just can't believe that she is coming home, that it is time! it seems like it has been forever. she emailed me yesterday and said that one minute she will be crying and the next she will be jumping up and down she's so excited. it has brought back a lot of emotions for me, a mission is just very emotional. i didn't really have an end to my mission. the last week of my mission i spent in the mission home and i literally never stopped crying that entire week, i just did not want to leave at all. in the mission i was miserable and i know it was the right thing for me to come home when i did, but i still loved being a missionary and i wanted to finish. the church flew my dad to get me and he got to see a little of spain. i really hope that someday soon i will be able to go back.

the pictures are my dad and i at the temple in madrid on my last day in spain, and my mission president's wife, hna farnsworth and my temporary last companion, hna parreno at the mission home my last day.