Lucy starts her mission

 Lucy started home MTC on Monday, February 12. Her teachers were from the Mexico MTC and she did a Spanish zoom class in the mornings, a workshop for all missionaries that started this week from the Provo MTC, and then a Preach my Gospel class each afternoon. After the first day, she wasn't so sure, but it got better.

Then she got to hang out with us in the evenings.

We went to Calgary on Monday night so Lucy could fly to the Mexico MTC on Tuesday, February 20.

We got up at 4:15 am and took Lucy to the airport, checked her bags, hugged her goodbye, and she was off through security.

Missionaries aren't supposed to take a phone - they just give you a phone when you get there. So we couldn't talk to her through her travel day. But Tanis Hardy convinced me to put an air tag in her bag, and I was glad I did. I could see when she made it through security, then when she landed in Dallas and found her new gate, and then when she landed in Mexico. I did also track her flights on flight tracker - it was probably made for missionary moms.

Then I just got a one sentence message - This is Lucy, I made it to Mexico.

On Friday she posted a video Facebook with her companion speaking Spanish - her Spanish teacher gives that assignment (2 videos and 2 pictures so far) I was so happy to see her cute face.

She had a few hours of free time on Saturday night, and so we got to talk to her for the first time. She seems happy and doing good. She said there was another sister missionary and two elders on her flight from Dallas to Mexico City - so she had someone to be with as they went through immigration and met the MTC worker and rode the MTC bus.

She got called to be the Apartment Leader - mi casa mama

It's a pretty MTC campus ... the weather is warm... she said they told her the Mexico MTC is the only place in Mexico City that has birds, every where else is too city