Gabrielle's Mission Call!

Well, I (Gabrielle) have been in the process of filling out the paperwork to be an LDS missionary for a few months now, and last week everything was finally turned in! So yesterday here I was waiting for the mail to come (it comes SO late-- like 4:00! Exasperating!). Anyway, I'm thinking my mission call could possibly come, but more likely not this week. So at 4:15 I venture out to get the mail with moderate hopes of seeing a big white envelope addressed to Sister Gabrielle Garfield. Sure enough, there was! I was very surprised, actually. So I'm all giddy and skipping back to the house. Dad was the only one home, though. So I call Mom who naturally has her cellphone off. I call my sister Genevieve who answers neither her home phone nor her cellphone. I call Garrett and Bayra who don't pick up either. And I think, "forget you guys, I'm opening it without you!" (Not really, but it was very frustrating) So I continued to make dinner as the most important piece of mail in my life was taunting me on the counter. Garret and Bayra did call back, I should add, a couple times ("Is Lisa home yet??"). And finally Mom and the girls sauntered in. Genevieve, however, was ever-elusive. I decided to try calling one last time before I would give in and open it without her. Miraculously, she answered and was on her way to our house for an unrelated reason! She didn't know what was going on when she walked in until she saw what I was holding. I got everyone I wanted on the phone and quickly proceeded to yell at everyone for several minutes to pipe the heck down. (My nephews were being very loud goofballs). Finally I opened it! I was trying to avert my eyes so I wouldn't see anything before I actually read it, so I moved the first paper to the back. Naturally, the next paper was an application for a passport, so I knew right away I was going on a foreign mission. To be more specific, and to end the suspense, I have been called to serve in the Chile Santiago East Mission! I am to report to the Provo MTC on April 1st. It's an unusually long wait, but oh well! I'm very excited to learn Spanish and go spread the good word to those Chileans! Until then, thus concludes my very detailed report of getting the mail yesterday.
Abrazos,
Sister Gabrielle Garfield