Well, Sister Daines finally made it to Jolly old England!  On Tuesday, she woke up at some ridiculously early hour (4:00 am?) and got ready and trecked by herself throughout the MTC campus, reporting to missionary travel.  They put her on a shuttle and dropped her off at the train which goes from Provo to SLC.  She had to transfer from the train to a light rail (or something?) to get out to the airport. When she got to the airport, she was prevented from checking in at the kiosks, because HER FLIGHT DID NOT EXIST!  Somehow, missionary travel had booked her on a direct flight (which does not exist) from SLC to Heathrow.  So she was rerouted through Dallas.  Upon arrival in Dallas, she called us and explained the saga, telling us that she "knew she had said this before, but REALLY....when she gets home from her mission she is NEVER flying alone again!"

As luck and the missionary travel department would have it, her flight in Dallas was so delayed that she missed her Heathrow connecting flight out of Atlanta.  Although stressed and anxious, she handled herself like a sweet champion.  How do I know this?  A member from Aaron's mission (who knows Aaron because he baptized one of their workers at their pizza place in Kamas called me to say that she had been sitting waiting for her flight when a woman by her said "Look at that lovely young woman over there.  She is certainly dealing with all these delays and problems in such a happy and capable way."  When Sister Littledike looked up, she saw a missionary nametag on said young woman and approached her to offer her some support and comfort.  Annie was so grateful to Sister Littledike for her kindness (and for the use of her cell phone!)  We talked with Annie and she seemed in good spirits when she got on her plane to Minneapolis so that she could fly to Heathrow from Minnesota.

Things seem like they went as planned after that, since we received the following two emails from the London, England Mission:
Dear Family,

Today, we are so grateful that your wonderful missionary arrived safely in the England London Mission. 

We will be sending you two pictures of your Missionary.  One will be with President and Sister Stevens and the other with their first Companion.  We will mail these pictures to you.

Thank you for your support.  We will love and take good care of your great Missionary.

Kind regards,

England London Mission

and then 30 minutes later this one:  

From: Karen Tuttle <karenjt1124@gmail.com> Date: March 30, 2016 at 12:41:06 PM PDT To: rdaines@gmail.com Subject: Sister Daines has arrived in Canterbury I have met your daughter who is serving with us in Canterbury. I am Sister Tuttle. My husband and I are YSA couple serving here as well. We are so excited to have her here serving with Sister Johannes. We will take good care of you. You may imagine how thrilled we all were to see her smiling face and know she was received in such a loving  and happy way.  The icing on the cake was late that night when I received the following text from Sister Littledike which read:  "Sister Daines this is Sister Littledike.  I just had to share.  I got a message from a dear friend serving a mission in England.  Guess where and guess who just came to their mission.  Bro and Sis Tuttle are wonderful people from Kamas!  They have already met your daughter and they already love her."  Blog Administrator over and out!  :) So I truly feel that the Lord is watching over our little Annie Daines.  :)   I know she is looking forward to this conference weekend and we will pass on any word we receive from her. Hopefully this is the last  post from the "Blog administrator" for the remainder of the mission.  LOL