I love to see the temple....

Wow, so I have just realized that my first two posts and my only posts so far are primary songs! How funny. So, October 17th has gone down in Chauntelle's book of life as a HUGE milestone. I went through the temple and took my endowments out!!! The day before, the 16th, was my 21st birthday! Which, by the way was a BLAST!!! Thanks to all my friends for making it so great! Anyways, that night it hit me that I was going to be going to the temple and so I didn't want to go to sleep! Lucky for me I have two great friends Brady and Gary who stayed up with me until like 2 and then Brady couldn't handle it (psh, what a girl! jk! Love ya B!) but Gary and I stayed up until like 4 just sitting there talking. The next morning went by super fast and before I knew it I was at the temple! The next 4 hours flew by even faster than the morning had. It was such a great experience and the spirit was so strong! I had a ton of people there to support me. (Thanks guys! You're all the greatest!) Anyways, obviously I can't really say much about the temple because it is so sacred, but it was so amazing! I have gone back every week since then and it is crazy how much more you understand and catch on to with every visit. I am going to be so sad when I am not able to go in Portugal! (The closest temple is in Spain...)

i hope they call me on a mission...

Well, the wait is over! I don’t have to hope or dream (or stress) anymore! So here’s the story…
So, rewind to August 13th, I knew the call was coming… You know how some old people say they can feel its gonna rain “I can feel it in my bones” (read in a shaky old scruffy voice) well, I had that experience haha! I knew the call was going to come in the mail that day. So, I called into work and asked if I could work earlier so I could basically stalk the postman all afternoon… So I got off from work around 3 and just sat there waiting… finally at 4:30 after checking the mail a million times… IT WAS THERE!! Probably the craziest feeling ever holding that in my hands knowing that inside was a paper telling me where I would serve. It was probably on the same level of amazing-ness as getting a letter from Devon after 6 months of nothing! (dude, that’s pretty major right there!) Anyways, so I had to wait until all of my family was there… (basically the longest wait ever!) So at like 6:30 I FINALLY opened my call, yes I was emotional, yes I was freaking out and yes, I was totally shaking! Anyways… I am called to serve in the…

Crazy huh?!? I am sooooooo excited it is ridiculous! I will be speaking Portuguese, which is soooo sweet! My dad served in Brazil (portuguese is their national language) so he is super stoked, we now have a little “bond” haha. Anyways, the only completely retarded part about this whole mish deal is that I don’t report to the MTC until December 30th!!!! How lame! Hello, I’m pretty sure I put my availability date ASAP!! My ideal situation was me going into the MTC like around my birthday which is October 16th… But nooooo; I guess the Lord has other plans for me… danget. So, that changes things around jus a lil bit! haha. I now am doing another semester of school (shoot me) and just getting ready for the mish!