I GOT MY REASSIGNMENT!!!!!!!

I'll be sending out that big email later today, but I just wanted to let you all know where I am going... First I'll tell you where people in my district are going... Elder Hatch, Elder Brown, and Elder Clinger are all going to Albuquerque New Mexico. Sister Jackson is going to Reno Nevada. Elder Priest and Elder McEwan are going to Morriston New Jersey or something like that... Elder Bitnoff and Sister Spencer are going to Jacksonville Florida... Some Elders from the other district are going to Billings Montana, so that's nice that I'm not going there since I have a whopping -3% body fat... Actually, it's probably closer to 2% since being here at the MTC. :)

And then Sister Beus, Sister Perez, and I, Elder Matt Dalton got reassigned to........ INDEPENDANCE MISSOURI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holla. DEUS E OTIMO. I am so excited!!!! How cool is that?? I am seriously so flippin' excited to go somewhere that has so much history! I have talked to a few missionaries who are from there and they say that it's a way sweet mission!!! I am so stoked! Just when I thought the mission couldn't get any better, it got 389498397x better!! Missionary work is totally rad and I can't think of any other thing I'd rather be doing! I report to the travel office at the MTC at 5am on Monday, and then my flight will be leaving at 815 or something... I'll let you know all of the details later, I just don't have my travel plans, I left them in my residence! I'll be arriving in Missouri at 255 or somewhere around there! I will be there for at least six weeks while I wait for my visa.. Chances are very good that I will be there longer than that, which I would be totally fine with because I know that the Lord is putting me where I need to be. I still remember going there for Emily's graduation trip, and it was so awesome! Now I get to experience it from a whole different perspective!! I am truly so excited! Dad I really wish that you could be there when I call mom from the airport, but I will definitely talk to you on mother's day.... Even though you're my father! :) Mom, I'll be calling you sometime on Monday morning from 6-8 or somewhere from there, SOOOO be ready! :) I love you all so much and I will be keeping you all updated! Thank you all so much for your prayers.. There are some nasty sicknesses going around, and I got sick again this week, which is TOTALLY fine because I always keep a positive attitude, but I am just getting over the sickness which is great because I want to be healthy for when I talk to my new mission president, President Donald J. Keyes. This church is true. It is the only way to true happiness. I love this gospel so so so so much, and I absolutely cannot wait to get to Missouri and be apart of this great work. Well, you guys will be hearing from me again today, but I gotta go finish my laundry.

Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Dalton