Mission Prep and opportunities

   So last Sunday was my first week at mission prep. I took a class last summer that was a mission prep class but it seemed that the class was dedicated to listening and this class now is dedicated to doing! It was amazing! We gave a “discussion” on Heavenly Father and his love for us. It was only about 10 minutes long but it was filled with the spirit! Something our “investigator” aka one of the teachers, said about us was something that has stuck with me all week (Today is Wednesday)  She said “ they may not have known exactly what to say but I knew they were telling me what they knew to be true and they said it out of love!" That’s when it hit me fully. I am in love with people I have never met ever before and that I am in love with a place I have never seen. That’s when I realized that in just 30 days I will be given the opportunity to turn in my papers and be assigned a place I have never been to before and that I will be assigned a group of people to love and serve for 18 months and the rest of my life!  Now I know I want to serve!

   I was discussing my mission in a meeting with a teacher and she laughed stating that she couldn’t understand how I could belong to an organized religion. I laughed with her but in my heart I know that I could never be anything else. I know I am a Mormon and that’s never changing. I can’t change my heart when it comes to my religion. Maybe there is safety and peace because I have been in the religion my whole life, but it’s also safe and peaceful because I know in my heart it’s true.

    I then had the opportunity to discuss the Book Of Mormon and the Word of Wisdom with a coworker who was interested in what I was planning to do after graduation.

   In all I found myself very happy to discuss the topics and it really made me see where i lack self confidence and where I could definitely brush up on dates and general knowledge that a lot of people keep asking me. (Soda/coffee/ and tea are all big ice breakers around here!