I just got my trunky papers this
week. For those of you who don´t know, trunky papers are what you get when you
have to start making arrangements to go home from the missions. I was pretty
upset. One phrase really just killed me inside it said “In preparation for the
arrival of the end of your mission service.” That one sentence was like a
dagger in the heart. I’ve just decided that I’m going to enjoy every second
that I have left and not really think about it because there´s still plenty of
time in life.
This area is still the hardest one I’ve worked in yet but in truly do just love
it. About 9 of the 10 people we talk to are completely atheist and don´t hold
back in letting us know what they think of us and our missions ;) Haha but the Lord
has definitely placed some of his choice children here in the pueblo. Things
are getting better every day! I feel very blessed to be able to be here and see
the Lord perform some incredible miracles here. I have no doubt that there are
many more prepared people waiting here for us and no amount of heat is gonna
stop me from finding them.
The mission has completely changed
me well not quite. I was trying to figure out why and how this week when it hit
me. The mission itself hasn´t changed me. Just because I have a nametag on and
have worn a skirt for the past year hasn´t meant that I’ve changed. It´s the
atonement that has changed me inside and out. My mission has helped me see the
infinite power of the atonement in my own life and in the lives of those I
love. My mission has pushed me to my very limits and made me use the atonement
in ways that I never had thought of before. My mission has
expanded my understanding of the atonement and of the gospel. It´s
the atonement and the gospel that changes us. The atonement has carried me
every single day of my mission and will continue to carry me for the rest of
eternity. I’m sorry that this email is so short because I so dearly wish I had
the time to express my thoughts about the atonement. My mission has changed my
focus from being on myself, to others, and finally on the Savior.
Come what may and love it!
Hermana Israelsen.
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