Buenas Tardes Everyone!
So it really hasnt been until now, while reading everyone's emails that Ive realized this is probably my last email home.. The truth is It doesn't feel like Im going home. It feels just like any other week on my mission. Just like all the other weeks on my mission where now that I think back on , Ive never wrote anything about going home because if you told me now that i was going to go home in a year i would believe you. Time has just flown by.
In our last Zone Conference they asked me to go up for the "What the Lord has taught me" time that is for any missionary going home that month. I was the only one in my zone... When I got up I had no idea what to say. The lord really has taught me so much and im still being taught every day that the first thing I said was, " I dont think im really going to know everything the Lord has taught me till I go home"
Elder Uchtdorf gave a talk where he says, something along the lines of, "a succesfull mission is reflected in the returned missionary years after they have returned from their mission".. Its all about who Ive been able to become right? oh boy.. I still feel like I have a lot to learn. Its a good thing The church of Jesus Christ is all about progressing every day. We will never get to a point during this life where we will know everything and have nothing else to learn... how boring would that be? Im so grateful for the Lords perfect plan that helps us progress little by little every day. Im only at the beginning.
If anything throughout my mission I have learned not only what my role and potencial is as a daughter of God but I have come to feel and experience the love that our brother Jesus Christ has for each on of us. He loves us more than we can imagine. I have never felt, seen nor applied his atonement in my life as much as I have the last 18 months and let me tell you, the atonement is not just for repenting... its there for every single emotion or need we will ever have. He's gone through it all and is still with us every minute of our lives, compasionately comforting us, encouraging us and laughing and crying with us. HE is the center of Gods plan . And he should be the center of our lives. ( thats when we really start to progress)
I am so grateful for everything and everyone God has blessed me with, Im grateful for this experience I am having here in Spain. I still have many more minutes here and you know what that means... theres still time for many many more miracles to happen. I love you all so very much!!
Con muchisimo amor ,
Hermana Hair
Here's a poem that my mission president sent me. I really liked it and think we can all apply it to our normal lives as well... not just the mission.
enjoy:)
Hoe to the End of the Row!
Bill Brown made a million,
Bill Brown, think of that.
That boy you remember,
As poor as a rat.
He hoed for the neighbors,
Did jobs by the day.
And Bill made a million,
Or near it they say.
He worked for my father,
You’ll maybe recall.
He wasn’t a wonder,
Not that, not at all.
He couldn’t out-hoe me,
Or cover more ground,
Or hoe any faster,
Or beat me around.
In fact, I was better
In one way that I know.
One toot from the kitchen
And home I would go.
But Bill Brown always hoed
To the end of the row.
We used to get hungry
Out there in the corn.
You talk about music,
What equals a horn?
A horn yellin’ dinner,
And tomatoes and beans,
And pork and potatoes,
And gravy and greens.
I ain’t blamin’ no one
For quittin’ on time.
To quit with the whistle,
That ain’t any crime.
But as for the million,
Well, this much I know.
Bill Brown always hoed
To the end of the row.
- Anonymous
