Leaving "The Garden of Eden"

I feel like I have left the Garden of Eden and am headed towards the "lone and dreary world". 

My locker no more!

Not that I feel that our mission together won't be wonderful and a great experience.  I know it is what we need to do and I want to! But I think Eve may have preferred to stay in the Garden where everything was beautiful.  But to get to better things, she and Adam had to get out of their "comfort zone" and get to mortality.  Because of their sacrifice, eternal lives with family were their great blessings.  My intent and hopeful blessings are the same.  I am doing this so that myself and others can have eternal lives with their families.  So, even though some call it the lone and dreary world, I see our world as the beautiful handiwork of God.  Uruguay will be a place where I also can witness the handiwork of God! It's just hard to leave the "Garden".

Off it comes, at least until January.