This Is Amazing And Also Freaky

Amanda is going to the Sacramento California Spanish-speaking mission while waiting for her visa to come through.

This is not unusual.

In fact, Amanda has (lovingly) stated before that Argentina "is a butt about visas", and one of the sisters that was there when she first arrived was going to serve in Idaho until her visa came through.

So all in all, this is not an unusual thing and is, ultimately, utterly unremarkable.

Except for the fact that I have known she was going to California since before she got her call.

That's right--I knew she was going to California.

I remember sitting in my Education class the day Amanda got her call. In fact, it was exactly when Amanda knew she got her call, because I was trying to listen to class as she and Korrin chatted about it like so:

The blog makes a lot more sense now that you see a typical conversation, doesn't it?

And me? I was freaking out. It was really hard for me to accept that my two of my three best friends were going on missions, and Amanda getting her call stressed me out to no end.

So there I am in class, internally panicking about where is she going and what am I going to do, and suddenly I got this really weird feeling. It was a sudden calm feeling, and the extreme suddenness of it took me super off guard and left me with a simultaneous feeling of slight apprehension at the afore-mentioned suddenness.

And at the same time I got this feeling, my brain said "California. Calm down Kylie, she's just going to California."

I was shocked. Was I really getting insider information on where Amanda was going? Really?
I told my mom and (surprisingly) Emily about this feeling, but I never told anyone else about it.

So I was secretly expecting Amanda to say she was going to California but LOLOL nope. "Argentina" caught me so off guard I almost fell out of my chair. I thought I had been wrong. I had just imagined something that would make me feel better about her leaving, and that was okay.

But today, Amanda got temporarily reassigned to California.

I don't know why God let me have a sneak peak into the future--maybe He needed to let me know that He's watching over my friend. Maybe He needed to give me the same answer my prayers usually get (i.e. "STOP WORRYING YOU WORRYING WORRIER!"). And maybe He just wanted me to know ahead of time what was in store. I don't know. But He did tell me, and I'm amazed, humbled, and just a little freaked out that He did.

I can tell you one thing without a doubt, though. Hermana Lloyd is supposed to be in California. There are people there that need her light and her guidance, and the Lord is leading her right to them.

You guys better believe it.

I know I do.

~Kylie

UPDATE: I emailed Amanda and told her about how I knew she would be going to California. This was her response:

"Gift of prophecy, my friend. You truly have the Sight. (Psst. Don't tell Trelawney)"

Also, she's super excited to go to Sacramento, so that's excellent :)