My decision to serve a mission has been a long time coming. . . I just never knew it. Up until about five months ago it had always just been a thought in the back of my mind, locked up and put in storage to open at a later date. That day came last October when the age for women to serve a mission was lowered from 21 to 19. All of a sudden I found myself digging up the key to that box. All of a sudden I was old enough to serve. When the announcement was made I was in the category of not yet old enough for the previous age but now almost a year older than the new girls. I had so many excuses of why I shouldn't go. Lists of reasons why I wouldn't be good enough or why it would interfere with my other life plans but let's be honest. . . I was scared. The moment the age change was announced I knew it was an answer to my prayers. It just took awhile for my decision to sink in. I started praying to know if a mission was the next step I should take and the feeling of peace was overwhelming. It was the first time in a long time that I had felt completely sure about a decision I had made.
It is truly amazing the way Heavenly Father prepares us to be able to make such monumental decisions. I have been preparing for this next chapter without even knowing it. :)
P.S. In all three years of going to school out west I had never had the chance to go to general conference in the conference building in Salt Lake.
until the October 2012 General Conference
my bff Aubree had connections aka her lovely mother in law :)
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