Flight to Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

This morning, at about 6 AM, Jonathan called us for a few minutes from the Salt Lake airport. He was all checked in and waiting for his flight. He said he is getting ready to go "far away from home"! He was feeling like he needed more time at the MTC studying! I can hardly believe that he is wishing for more long study days. I think he is feeling the huge responsibility he has and isn't sure he's ready. But he is excited to get to the mission field. He was able to talk with Shane, Amanda, and Michael as well. We updated him about a couple of his friends mission calls (Jeff Job is going to Paraguay and Cade Wallentine is going to Chili). He sure has a lot of friends who will be speaking Spanish! He also told us that Elder Hatch is going to be fine, they didn't find any additional problems and he will only be delayed leaving for Fort Worth for a couple of weeks.

About 15 minutes later Jonathan called us back to quickly let us know where his first area will be. He finally had time to open the packet they gave him at the MTC and found out that he will be going to the South American country of Guyana. He was very excited about that and just had to tell us before boarding the airplane. He will fly to Georgetown, Guyana on Wednesday morning. In Guyana the missionaries have been having a lot of success. We have been told that it is where most of them want to be able to serve because the people are so humble and ready to accept the Gospel. It is one of the harder areas as far as living conditions go, but he won't have a problem with that. I check the weather for this week in Georgetown and they are predicting highs near 83 and lows near 75, with rain every day! I hope he can get an umbrella and rubber boots soon!

I thought that for the I would include Jonathan's flight information:
Delta # 1724, Salt Lake City to Atlanta: departed @ 7:02 AM and arrived @ 12:38 PM.
Delta # 387, Atlanta to Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: departed @ 2:58 PM and arrived @ 7:47 PM. Now on to the Mission Home!