" Well the time has come. This is my very last blog post as a full time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During the middle of the mission I kind of felt like I was born on the mission and that I would die on the mission but now I feel like I've only been here I week. It's the weirdest thing. When I really think about it I know that I haven't seen my family in a really long time but it doesn't feel like that. It scares me a bit. I feel like I'll go home and my mission will feel like just a magical dream. Okay, enough rambling. I love my mission. I'm so obsessed with my mission. I don't even know what to say I am so grateful for this opportunity. Whenever I think about it I just get overwhelmed with happiness. Here are some of the highlights of how Heavenly Father blessed me for my last week on the mission.
- I was able to bear my testimony in District Meeting. I talked about having courage and to just keeping going on. I think sometimes in the gospel we don't feel the power of the Spirit every second so we start to doubt. As a missionary when you've been out so long you start to forget why you are here and then you doubt it and it gets hard. I talked about just doing the right thing because it's the right thing. Everything works out when we are obedient.
- Our cute little 11 year old's Mom fed us and we had a great lesson. We are all so sad that I am leaving but it's okay. It was so nice to just be with their family.
- We had great lessons. We taught so much and saw all my favorite people. I was nervous but everyone is really happy for me to go home and said really nice things to me. When I came I thought I'd hate teaching but I love it. I love listening to the Spirit and helping others learn about Christ.
- We ordered food from this man who cooks it is his apartment. He doesn't have a restaurant you just call him up, tell him what you want and he cooks it up for you. I love the hood.
- I packed all my things up early and so I have nothing to worry about but just enjoying the last few days of my mission.
- We had two baptisms. First we had my funny 16 year old investigator. There was some crazy opposition about getting this kid baptized. An alarm at the church was going off, there was no baptismal suits, our ward mission leader got lost, it was insane but he got baptized, got confirmed, and got the priesthood. I love him so much. He is so complainy but he is good. We taught him this big lesson, and at the end he said "So how do I get out of home teaching and going on a mission. We said "You don't." To which he said "Aaahhhuughhhhh fine, I already have a bike." He just does the right thing because it's right. Then we had the wife of a newly coming back less active member get baptized. She had a baby 4 months ago. They are just the cutest family. When we asked her how she felt she said "Prepared." That is the greatest answer I've ever heard.
- We street contacted this man as he was coming out of his garage. Turns out his wife is a member who goes to the Spanish ward but he prefers English. We taught him yesterday and he wants to get baptized. He told us how he has always thought he wanted to be a Mormon but never knew much about it. When we taught him he loved it and said he wants to prepare to be baptized. It was amazing to end my mission with teaching such a great final first lesson to someone.
I have really grown to love people more than I ever thought. I didn't know it was possible to meet someone one day and the next day be praying fervently for their eternal salvation. I have learned so much about myself and who I want to be. I could talk about so many things about what I've learned but I think one of the greatest things I've learned is that life is a process, perfection is process. I use to think that I was just dragging my feet and not progressing like how I was suppose to but that's not true. We are all in a process of progression. It's not a light switch of change but a dimmer switch. I learned that the Atonement is real and practical and that it changes us. I learned that real change and happiness comes from service and truly forgetting ourselves. Everything that I thought I knew has been had solid. I know that Joseph Smith restored Christ's church to the earth. That the Book of Mormon just makes me happy and that is really is the word of God. I learned that prophets are inspired and Heavenly Father loves us so much to give us prophets and apostles for our day. I am grateful that this is a church where our knowledge leads us to act. We don't really care how much you know but what you do with your knowledge and how you serve with your knowledge. I love the gospel. Life is great. See you soon!"
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