Hey
Guys!
Life here's pretty
much the same. We're still in the coordination stages for all the cool things
we want to do our last week. It's a long process, but it's coming together
piece by piece. We're going to, on my last Saturday, have 5 baptisms, and then
we're going to go to the temple with all the recent converts to do baptisms for
the dead. There's a lot of coordination that has to be done, but it will be
done.
You know what I feel
like right now if you've been in my position before. 2 weeks before you go home,
you feel like everything is just a blur, but at the same time, you can't help
counting days and just waiting to go home. This week we got to know the new
mission Presidents, President and Hermana Christensen, and we had short
interviews with them. When they interviewed me, they basically just thanked me
for te work that I've done here on the mission and told me that when I get back
home, I won' t be able to find many people who really understand what I've been
through or the way I think.
I have no idea how
things are or what it will be like when I get back, but we'll see. You might
think that I act differently or weird when I get back, but that will be for 2
reasons:
1) I've been living in
a very different culture for a long time. It will take me some time to adjust
to being an American again.
2) Spiritual growth is
a purifying process. When gold is purified, the purest part of the gold stays
the same, but the little imperfections are slowly burned away. Much of the
mission has been a process of purification for me. When a person grows
spiritually, their personality and the inner essence of who they are basically
stays the same, but they become more intelligent, more profound, and more
focused on things that matter most.
I really don't have
too much to say. There are great things happening, we're gonna have 5 baptisms
on my last Saturday, I feel time passing by, and I'll be returning from the
unfamiliar-made-familiar country of Guatemala to the
once-familiar-made-unfamiliar state of California.
See you all soon! Time
goes by much faster than what you expect.
--
Elder Jeffrey Reed
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