I got my mission call!!!

I'm going to the Germany Frankfurt Mission, and I report to the Missionary Training Center on February 6, 2013!

I know this map isn't great, I just took a picture of the one they sent me.

After spending several weeks at the MTC in Provo, I'll fly to Frankfurt, where my Mission President will assign me to a companion. This purple area is broken up into small areas, and each area is assigned to a companionship of 2 missionaries. Every 6 weeks these missionaries are rearranged and assigned a new area within the mission. I'll serve for 18 months, then come home again.

I'm so excited to spend another year and a half with the people of Germany! I personally think the middle of Germany is the prettiest (the North is too windy and the South looks kinda like Iowa, before the mountains anyway). I couldn't have picked a better mission myself, and I'm looking forward to the opportunity to serve.

Every week I'll be emailing my family, and those emails will be available here for everyone to read.

I Hate Modern Art.

Art and Architecture with Dr. McFarland is this: Look at the building/painting. What era is it from? What was important to people in this time? What was the artist trying to say? Is the artist important, or the patron? Where did its ideas come from? and so forth. I've been doing all right, although sometimes I bemoan my long lost ability to look at a building and think, "PRETTY!". Now all I can think is, "Wow, they really botched the neo-classic in this. It looks much more historicist." and other such boring things. Which makes me sound too big for my britches.