Getting the Mission Papers sent in.

It's both exciting and scary to think that I will call this place home for a while in the not too distant future. I'm starting to wonder why I even started a blog, but I'm going to try and keep it up anyway. But I dropped off all of my Doctors appointment history sheets to the Bishops house yesterday. I got really EXCITED. I'm constantly bombarded with images of places I could be sent off too. I'm constantly running my fingers over maps thinking that I could have just passed the place where I'd be called to.

(I know I'm silly) But I'm excited to dedicate my time and energies to the Lord. I've been also bombarded with all my old friends coming home from their missions, and I just can't restrain myself from the excitement of going. I find there are many selfish and righteous reasons to go. I just know that where and when are up to the Lord, and that I am willing to serve. I can't wait to help people to give service and to testify of the things that I know to be true. Before I made the decision to go I was always on the prowl for Boys, and telling my friends that they were lucky to have one. Now I feel like the lucky one.. Ha! (I say to myself) I've been untamed by men, NOW watch me become meek and humble with the Lord! There is still much that I haven't figured out or expected, but slowly I'm climbing the tall mountain towards discipleship.

Not too long ago I honestly did not want to go. I dreamed of dating and finding my eternal companion to start a eternal family with. That dream is not gone, it's just put on hold for a while. I've felt Heavenly Fathers promptings whispering to me telling me that there are things that I will learn on my mission that my family will need me to teach them. I know that I will be a much better person when I come back and who doesn't want to better themselves?

Also there are spiritual reasons to go. I think of people all round and all the people that I don't know in the world. If I could help one person find this glorious gospel, and find true happiness, my mission would be worth it. If I can serve the Lord just once, I'd rather do it, no matter how long it takes, than to let that opportunity pass me by. I love this gospel, I can not deny the truth of it. I know that God lives, and that he loves and blesses me daily. I hope and pray that I may be able to pour out some of those blessings with my fellow men.

Alma 29: 1 O that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might go forth and speak with the trump of God, with a voice to shake the earth, and cry repentance unto every people!

2 Yea, I would declare unto every soul, as with the voice of thunder, repentance and the plan of redemption, that they should repent and come unto our God, that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth.
6 Now, seeing that I know these things, why should I desire more than to perform the work to which I have been called?

7 Why should I desire that I were an angel, that I could speak unto all the ends of the earth?

8 For behold, the Lord doth grant unto all nations, of their own nation and tongue, to teach his word, yea, in wisdom, all that he seeth fit that they should have; therefore we see that the Lord doth counsel in wisdom, according to that which is just and true.

9 I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it. I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.

10 And behold, when I see many of my brethren truly penitent, and coming to the Lord their God, then is my soul filled with joy; then do I remember what the Lord has done for me, yea, even that he hath heard my prayer; yea, then do I remember his merciful arm which he extended towards me.

11 Yea, and I also remember the captivity of my fathers; for I surely do know that the Lord did deliver them out of bondage, and by this did establish his church; yea, the Lord God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, did deliver them out of bondage.

I know these things to be True...