I love that you said who know it's time because I think you do know when it's like, I need

something. I need to explore or get out of my comfort zone or just appreciate, right? So many

things that we have around us.

Hi, this is Monica Packer and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about progress

where we are about progress made practical.

When was the first time you got outside of your comfort zone as an adult?

For me, it was when I went on my study abroad to London, England, where I turned

20 years old while on the trip. Now, I'm the fifth of seven kids, but I was the first to take

an international voyage outside of serving a mission for our faith. Every morning in the classroom,

we learned about the Great War, World War I,

studying how its history inspired the literature, art, and music from the period.

While the afternoons were spent exploring the sites, spending the little money we all had

on nosebleed seats to any play, ballet, or musical we could attend, and seeing almost every

piece of art we could as far as the transportation network could take us. This trip changed my life.

It ignited a deep love for history, art, and culture. It pushed me to try new things. It challenged

so much of my existing worldview.

And it instilled greater knowledge of who I was and who I wanted to be.

When I think of London, I think of it almost as the beginning of my real life.

And yet, that first day, I clearly remember sitting on the bunk bed, scared to death.

The whole house had just departed, going to take in the big ben before dinner and bed. But I elected

to stay back, excusing myself because of some sort of ear ache I had at the time. But the truth was,

I felt petrified. In a rare for me moment of courage that set the why not tone for the rest of my

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