She'll be there for three weeks, and then she heads to Lima, Peru, where she will spend all her time sharing the gospel for the next year and a half.
I recently went down to Alabama for a few days to see Jill and the rest of my family. Jill and I got our hair done while I was down there, and we had an opportunity to talk about Jill's mission with our hairdresser and some of the other ladies in the salon. They couldn't believe Jill was going to be in Peru for a year and a half! They had all kinds of questions for Jill, from how she would pay for her mission to where she would live and whether she would know anyone in Lima.
Growing up in Alabama, I always shied away from talking about the church I went to because I knew that many kids at my school had heard negative information about Mormons from their pastors. Now that I've gotten older and lived outside the southeastern United States for several years, I've come to realize that people's religious intolerance shouldn't make me uncomfortable to talk about my religion. So it was with enthusiasm that Jill and I discussed her mission with the ladies in the hair salon in my parents' small town in Alabama. The women seemed so excited for her. It made me so proud of my sister. There aren't many people who would be willing to drop everything for a year and a half to serve their church!
I'm really going to miss Jill!!! But I am really proud of her and so excited for all she is going to experience in the next 18 months!
If you want updates on Jill, I'll be keeping up her blog here.
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That's awesome!!
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