Elder Dano Is In El Salvador

Daniel left yesterday morning for El Salvador. He called the family during his layover at the Dallas Airport. He is traveling with 3 other missionaries who are all going to his same mission. He said the first thing they did when they got to Dallas was run to McDonald's for a Big Mac. He said they got up that morning and left SLC around 5am. He was hoping to see snow before he left because it will be awhile. Sadly it didn't snow for him, but was snowing when we were talking to him.

They received a letter from their mission president a little while back telling them he would be waiting for them at the airport. He sounds just like he should sound excited, nervous, anxious, mature, positive...He's glad to be moving on to his final destination.

Here is the letter he sent last Friday:

Hey everybody,

So I got some news for you all. Today I went in to the travel office and one of the guys looked at me and said, "Elder Gillette, you have been really patient and have been great to work with about all your visa stuff. I know you really want to go, but sometimes things just don't work out. But your going to El Salvador on monday". I freaked out. I just went up and gave him a hug. I am so excited. I decided to E-mail til I knew for sure what was going on. I am so stinking excited though! I am going to a whole different country in 3 days!!! I will be able to call around 11 I think it was so make sure you keep your phones on you on monday. I will probably just call like mom or the home phone and then dad. So if you want to talk to me let them know or be there!

Well that is my really big news. Lets see this week though has been crazy. We just teach and have no classes. Me and my comp went and talked to some native speakers from Mexico all in spanish for 2 hours then taught them. it was awesome and they said they were impressed with our spanish. We will see how I do in El Salvador.

It was awesome this week. We had M. Russel Ballard come and speak to us on tuesday. that is 3 apostles in a row. It was so amazing. All about communication. I absolutely loved it.

We are making a fort tonight in our room to celebrate our 8 and a half weeks done. We are gonna eat all of our food and junk. Probably won't feel to good in the morning, but the Orange Juice will do that to you anyways. I will send my memory card home this week so you can see all my MTC adventures. It has been a blast.

I have started doing a thing this week which has been a lot of fun. When Russel M. Nelson came and talked to us he talked about how we need to get to know Christ. So he told us to go to the Topical Guide and read all the things under Christ. I bought a Journal this week and started doing that and it has been amazing. I just go through and I am just in the summary right now but it is a blast. I just write down a summary of what the passage is about and my thoughts. It is actually really fun.

But I love everyone letters and I am trying to write, but this week i have been so busy. So I don't think I will get any letters for a while outside of email cause now they will have to be sent to El Salvador.

I did start packing up though which is lucky so I don't have to pack up as much, but that is where I am headed after this. But I love you all and thank you for all the support over the past couple months. Keep praying for me cause I know these next couple weeks are the times when I will need them the most. I will talk to you over the phone though in a couple days which is exciting! And mom I hope you sent my drivers license cause I think I may need that haha. Well talk to you soon and sorry this letter is so out of order and random. That is how my mind is right now haha.

Love ya all!