Mission Papers!

For anyone who doesn't know yet, I'm going on a mission! My papers are in and I'm expecting to get my call while I'm here. Hopefully it's here when we get back from our trip to Galilee (two weeks from this Friday). Making the decision to go on a mission and going through the process of getting my papers done while I've been here has been quite the experience on its' own but has played a major role in my experience here.
After being here a couple of weeks, I started having thoughts about going on a mission. These thoughts wouldn't leave me and stuck with me from the moment I woke up until I went to sleep each night, so I started fasting and praying about it. Since making the decision to go, I've had many confirmations that it's what I need to do and I'm so excited!
I want to share an excerpt from a letter I wrote and have in my journal.
"My perspective about so many things has grown too. I'm so excited to have the privilege to serve a mission. I know it will be hard but I'm excited for the chance to serve and grow. No matter where I get called to, I know I'll be needed there.
We can't share the gospel with the people here but I can't wait to share the good news this gospel brings, to the people of where ever I'm called to go. It's hard sometimes to be in a city where the people can't have the gospel and where the majority of people don't know and recognize that their brother, our Savior walked out of that tomb just down the road from where I'm sitting, that he suffered the atonement so that we could have hope for this life and the next. When ever I look over this city, I feel so privileged to even have that knowledge in my life, and I can't wait to share that."



Here are a few pics from when I finished my papers on line. yeah!