Christi Mission Blog: Christi is on a mission!!!

Hey friends and family! This blog is created by me for Christi while she is on her mission. I will try to post a few times a month with updates, pics, and pieces from her letters. We are all so happy and proud of Christi for what she is doing and that she is so awesome and amazing, and is already having an amazing time in the MTC. Before she left we had about 2 weeks of a family party! We went to movies, dinner, lunch, Grandma's house in Heber to go to Chicks, and finally the day she left we had breakfast at my moms with her favorite breakfast then all of us girls smashed in my Dad's truck to take her to the MTC. We first stopped off at the Provo temple to take a few pictures, and say our goodbyes there. We of course are being the Duke girls that we are and were being silly and laughing while my Dad is trying to take our pics! After we did the "drop" off at the curb at the MTC. We pulled up and all jumped out of the truck, we had been teasing Courtnee about her missionary she sent to the MTC in December, Spencer, that we would see him. As we were saying by all of a sudden there was Spencer! It was so funny and awkward, but Courtnee shook his hand and it was so cute. Then after we were saying bye, and hugging her we hear a "Christi" yelled, and we turn around and Jessica Wilcock was standing there with her companion waiting to take Christi inside! It felt much better to send her off with Jess, and know she would take good care of her. It was surreal watching her walk away with her luggage. We jumped back in the truck and all just sat there for a while crying, and wondering what we just did! It still seems weird without her around. But here are some pics of that day. We sure did miss our brother Chad this day, we kept talking about how it seems weird without him there with us! Love him too!

This is our "we think we are models pose" A Duke girl tradition!