The Beginning

Welp, This is it: the beginning.

The beginning of an experience like nothing I've ever experienced before.

RMs are always saying different things about their missions: many will say: "It was the best two years of my life!" and others will say: "It was the hardest two years of my life" or "it was the most fulfilling two years for my life" and so on...
With that said: what do I predict my mission will be like? Personally, I believe it will be all on the above. I guess we'll see.

I suppose an introduction and a hint into what this blog is all about is in order:
My name is Cameron Howell, in a week from today (April 2nd 2014) I'll be know as Elder Howell.  I've accepted a call to serve in the Ecuador Guayaquil North Mission as a representative of Jesus Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-Day Saints.  Like I said, I'm leaving to the Mexico MTC exactly a week from today (April 9th). This Blog will be to keep my friends, family, and random strangers undated on my adventures down in Guayaquil for the next two years. I'll post a couple things before I go, and then my family will take over and update my blog off of letters and pictures I send back home.  Hopefully it'll be awesome!

The most frequent question I've been asked in the days leading up to my departure is "are you excited?"
My answer to that is that yes I am excited, but it's a feeling of excitement mixed with fear and uncertainty. It's a very very confusing feeling and I'm completely scared out of my wit. for one thing: I have to go learn Spanish! which is awesome but... I'm not sure if you noticed that by the readability of this blog post or not but- I aren't even that great with ENGLISH grammar!
For another thing I don't feel completely confident with my gospel knowledge skills.  I'm not too fantastic at pulling scripture references out of the dust and there is still so much that I don't know and I feel like I should know in order to go preach it.
I pray every day that I can be ready and effective in the field. That I can learn the skills that I need quickly and make a difference when I serve the people in Ecuador.

Anyways, enough about the insecurities of my heart. I really do think it'll be great, and I truly am excited, so lets do this!