Can I just say...

I can't believe how fluid life is. It is no joke ever changing. This time last year I was in Hawaii, starting my first week at a new campus (and just for the heck of it!). Now, I'm preparing to go serve a mission in Canada. In French.  If you had asked me last year what I saw myself doing in a year, it would not have been this. And if you had asked me that same question two years ago, I would have never dreamed I'd end up in Hawaii for a semester.  Life is  just one incredible journey that I will never be able to wrap my head around.  This week itself has been a strange grab-bag of emotions and events that reach far beyond any possible descriptions.  And, it's all going to culminate with the Sunday to top all Sundays. That's right. It's my farewell- talk-Sunday (I know, I'm not leaving for another 2 1/2 weeks, but, this is how it worked out).  But the pot just keeps on getting sweeter, because not only am I giving a talk this Sunday, but...you guessed it...I'm giving a special musical number as well. Woo... (thanks dad!) AND (I feel like we need a drumroll at this point)...the branch is throwing me a potluck after church. Oh boy. I seriously lead a very special kind of existence.  I would be excited about Sunday, especially considering that I normally love giving talks and playing the piano in public (when it's a song I've practiced). And heck, I also love food and social gatherings. But this week has just been so emotionally draining that I'm just hoping I get some coherent words out, that the Spirit is somehow present as I speak, that I figure out a song to play (I was just asked to play yesterday), that it sounds decent and that I'm still standing by the time the potluck starts.  Can I just say... I'm feeling a little overwhelmed.