Hey
Guys!
My companion and I
have the baptismal goal of 6 for this month, and we already have 5 of the 6
planned and committed to be baptized on the 22nd of July, my last Saturday in
the mission. That week, we will also go to the temple with all the recent
converts of this year and last year. (We were gonna go this week, but it got
canceled because of temple remodeling and management, so we had to put it off
for a little bit later. That gives more time to our recent converts to look for
names. Luckily, I'll still be with them to go to the temple) In short, we've
got a lot to do, and not enough time to do it. Life goes by fast, especially
the mission.
I've never thought so
much about my life and what will become of my future as I have been thinking
about it this week and the past couple weeks. It's not that I'm worried or
anything, it's just the most prominent thought in my mind Much of my last couple
of weeks in the mission has been learning more about the basic principles of
repentance so that I can go home being the best person I can be. I haven't ever
felt such an itch just to be good. To be loving to others. To serve.
In the mission, as I
have read and served and learned, I have almost accidentally learned a lot more
about myself, even though that wasn't the initial goal. The initial goal was to
bring salvation to others. Before, I was a young high school graduate without
any real direction in my life, but now, I feel as if there is a clear path laid
down before me and a clear path that the Lord wants me to take. Actually maybe
the path isn't too clear, but the entrance to the path is, and I plan
wholeheartedly on taking action and moving forwards and upwards as I get back.
There were days when I worried that God was pleased with my service and that if
I had become the kind of person He wanted me to become on the mission, but I
don't worry about that anymore. I know, through revelation, that the Lord has
accepted my service (or rather, will accept my service after I finish in 3
weeks) and I know that i have given all my effort and my might in these last 2
years to His kingdom. I have learned and grown, but I should not expect the
learning and growth to stop here. If it does, I completely missed the point.
But it will not. We all, no matter where we're at in our life, we have to continue
growing upwards and onwards. And it can be a very joyful experience.
I am at peace with my
God and with Guatemala.
Elder Jeffrey Reed
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