It is the time! Can you believe it?? I leave for Cabo Verde tomorrow!!!!! My excitement is off the roof.... Wow. I am going from winter to summer in just a few hours.
So I am excited for that. I know it will be a long flight but that means I have a long time to practice my missionary skills and talk to everyone. I can't wait to talk to people... real people. Not just missionaries.
Well... now that i think about it... i have talked to one real person while here at the MTC. She is a lady named Leah. She comes to the MTC to get taught. She is so amazing. I will send a picture hopefully. But she is not of our faith. But it has been amazing talking with her and seeing the similarities that we have and what we believe in together.
This last week was great. I expected it to be not great because everyone was so ready to leave and not "enduring to the end." But surprisingly we really did a good job of learning all we could until the last second... I am still trying to learn all i can. :)
We had a last testimony meeting as a District on Sunday before people started departing. And I didn't really know what to say... I was just listening and taking it all in and then all of the sudden it was my turn to stand up. I usually think about what I am going to say before hand... But this time i didn't. I was a little nervous but then it just came to me. I then bore my testimony on the truth that Joseph Smith is a true prophet. In all honesty i think that testimony was for me more than it was for anyone else. The promise that your testimony grows when you share it is truly real.
The first week in my mission i remember listening to general conference and hearing how important it will be to gain our own strong testimony of Joseph Smith as a profet. I got a little discouraged because i thought to myself that i didn't feel i had a rock solid testimony about it. And i felt bad that i will be going to Cape Verde... and Telling all people about the message of the restauration and i don't have a sure testimony of joseph smith. So my goal for the MTC was to gain one. And finally on the last sunday i stood up and i bore testimony of it. And i think that is when it finally clicked. I referenced Doctrine and Covenants 6:22. The one that talks about casting your mind upon the night when you knew for a surety that something was true. Doubts will come... But i need to always remember the times in my life when the spirit was soooo strong i couldn't deny that This church has the fullness of the gospel. And that made it clear to me that i already knew joseph smith was a true profet... I knew... I just needed to remind myself and stand up and bare testimony of it with a strong firm statement. And so i bare my testimony to you all now that i know Joseph smith was a true profet. He restored Christ's church again upon the earth. he gave his whole life to this church and this gospel and i know he saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in the grove of trees. I know all this to be true.
I know this gospel is true. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ upon this earth. I love it. So much. And tomorrow i will be in the world and i will be a representative of him among so many people. I hope i can live up to this calling. I am so grateful for the opportunity to declare this gospel.
I love you all so so so so much. Sorry this email isn't so detailed. I had a great week. Next week will be full of crazy adventures i am sure.
Love
Sister Johnson.
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