I'm a kinesthetic learner, and therefore believe all
people are, so I figured it best that we do a practice email-to-blog-post
conversion before I leave on my mission. While I am away I will not technically
be allowed to blog. Instead my mom will
post the emails I send home each week on my blog as an update of sorts. For my first post I'm going to share my means
of communication with all of you and a few pictures (since we have to practice
posting pictures as well).
I will not have my cell phone on my mission and am
not allowed to receive or send texts or phone calls. Really, writing letters and sending emails is
the only way I can keep in contact with the outside world. I will be on Facebook, but that will be used
to post spiritual thoughts and communicate with those that I am teaching in my
mission. I can't read or respond to
messages from individuals outside of my mission.
For the first two weeks of my mission I will be in
Provo undergoing missionary training.
While I am there, I can be reached by mail at:
Sister Amanda Lee Poppe
FEB11 AZ-MESA
2009 N 900 E Unit 161
Provo, UT 84602
In my experience, it takes about 4 days for mail to
get from the Midwest to Utah, keep that in mind with my February 11th departure
date.
Additionally, there is a great service called Dear
Elder that is free to use while missionaries are in the MTC (Missionary
Training Center). To utilize this
service, please follow these steps:
1. Go to this website.
2. Fill in
the appropriate information for yourself in the top right hand corner of the
mock envelope.
3. Do the
same with my information in the center of the cyber envelope. You will need to know that my estimated MTC
departure date is February 11, 2014, my Unit Number is 161, and my mission is
AZ-MESA.
4. Fill in your email address beneath the fake
envelope and if you desire you can input mine as well, which is,
amanda.poppe@myldsmail.net
5. Compose a
letter in the box provided.
6. Click the
"Check Spelling" button (really, you can't skip this step, because I
will notice spelling errors. I
promise. And I will judge you a little
bit...at least until I've been a missionary long enough that I'm super holy and
love unconditionally, then I won't judge you.
But I'll still notice and my heart will be a little sad that even though
there was a free spell check feature you didn't use it and made the poor words
on the page appear wrong).
7. When all
spelling issues are resolved, click the "Send Letter" button and it
will send!
These deliver the same day if entered before 12:15
pm MST or the next day if submitted after then.
After I leave the MTC on February 11th, all letters
and packages should be sent to:
Sister Amanda Lee Poppe
2525 N 32nd St.
Mesa, AZ 85213
You can also use Dear Elder while I am in my
mission, but it costs 46 cents per letter at that point (just like a real
letter). Unfortunately you are required
to set up an account to use Dear Elder after your missionary is out of the MTC. Go to the Dear Elder website and create an
account and I'm assuming you will be able to figure out the rest. If not, just grab a pencil and physically
write me a letter like a normal American. Or don't write me because I make
sassy comments like the last sentence.
But, I would write me because I am fairly confident you will get
blessings from heaven if you send me mail while I'm on The Lord's errand.
BLESSIN'S FROM HEAV, PEEPS.
Through the duration of my mission I will also be
able to receive email messages at amanda.poppe@myldsmail.net. To the best of my knowledge I can receive
emails from anyone, though there is a chance that depending on my mission
president's rules, I will only be able to email my immediate family. I will keep you posted.
I will be able to email and write back once a week
on my preparation day. This means the
bulk of my responses will be written and mailed out on Mondays.
I hate to get all sentimental, but I know this
mission will be the hardest thing I've ever done, so I really will appreciate
any communication. I'm leaving behind a
lot of people that I love and care about and it makes me sad. I also know people are busy, so maybe every
person in this world who loves me can just communicate and set up like an
"Amanda Communication Rotation" so you all only have to write me like
two times on my mission and I will still get a letter a month from SOMEONE
while I'm away (because I'm assuming at least nine people like me enough to
write me two letters while I'm gone). I
don't know. Just an idea. I'll stop trying to organize the entire world
now.
Now, for those of you less inclined to like
words. THE PICTURES.
Pre-mission pic in the front yard. Try as I might, my bangs still won't do what
Ariel's do in The Little Mermaid. Life
is so hard.
"Don't worry, be happy" stated more
eloquently and not while under the influence of marijuana.
The next time you hear from me I'll be out teaching
the word of Christ. Holla atcha
sinners*, I'm coming for you, with love in my heart of course.
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