They Called Me on a Mission!

Well after a decision that has taken me over a year to make I finally got that big white envelope in the mail today! I will be serving in the Scotland, Edinburgh Mission reporting to the England Missionary Training Center on October 22, 2010! Words cannot describe how excited I am to be serving!

(reading my letter with my family)

But once the excitement and the phone calls died down a little I took the opportunity to read through my letter from the Prophet of the Lord again. And maybe they send the same thing to all missionaries I don't know but either way in that quite moment with my family listening as I read out loud all the nerves and the anticipation were gone and tears came as the Spirit once again confirmed to me stronger then ever that this was right and that Scotland is where the Lord needs me to be.

I am so so proud to be able to say that I will be soon serving the Lord and bring the Gospel to the people of Scotland. Heavenly Father has truly blessed my life and I am truly honored that He has found me worthy to be His servant.

Picture Perfect

Do you ever wish that you could go back in time? That you could somehow press rewind and go back and do things over...and most important do them differently? My little sister Rachel had her senior awards night tonight and as I sat in the audience watching the sea of people in Monsoon blue caps and gowns I couldn't help but wonder at the things I had missed. We sang our alma-mater and the tears over a school and life that I had resented for so long finally came. I was not a big fan of high school while I was there and I always used to blame it on the people that were there because well, they were/are the main reason I never liked it there. To me they were dumb and immature and I had my church friends so I didn't need them. But tonight I have realized that I was wrong. It wasn't everyone else that made High School so disagreeable...it was me. Tonight I realized that if I had tried a little harder to make more friends, to be involved, to have school spirit, then maybe, just maybe I would've been the one crying as a closed that HUGE chapter of my life.

Tonight I realized that there are no do overs. You can't rewind and live your life again just because it didn't turn out the way you pictured. Though not for the first time ever tonight I realized again that life isn't like the movies and if I keep sitting around and waiting for life to be picture perfect I'm going to miss out on those moments that make life perfect.