On Friday we had a multi-zone
conference. It was a meeting with about 70 missionaries. I still have more than
a month until I come home so I wasn´t expecting this at all but when I arrived
at the conference they told me that I would be giving my dying testimony at the
end of the meeting. When a missionary is about to go home they are asked to
give one final testimony to basically sum up your mission. I was thinking about
what I could share to sum up my mission and I immediately knew what to talk
about - The atonement. Over the past year and a half the atonement has
completely changed me. The atonement has carried me every single day of my
mission and will continue to carry me for the rest of my life. That is the best
word I could use to sum up my mission - the atonement. It has saved me in the
darkest and most difficult moments. It has made the difference when I just
wasn´t good enough. It is everything to me. As I’ve come to apply the atonement
more I have found happiness that I’ve never had before. I´ve applied that
atonement through the gospel/doctrine of Christ: faith in Christ and his
atonement, repentance, keeping and making covenants, seeking for and being
worthy of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. I don´t quite have the words
to describe my testimony of the power and mercy of the atonement. Christ truly
makes every unjust and bitter thing sweet in him. He is the way, our hope, and
our happiness. I love him so dearly and all that I want is to bring others to
him because as it says in Doctrine and Covenants 18 that´s what brings him so
much joy. I love my Savior and I love this work.
Come what may and love it.
Hermana Israelsen
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