Six Months into Our Mission

This week we celebrated six months since we entered the MTC. As I look back over those months, my feelings are that they have been both far better than I had expected, filled with spiritual experiences all drawing me closer to my Father and Heaven, and far harder than I expected, because I have become so involved in the spiritual struggle for the hearts and minds of our Father’s children. They are months filled with love for the missionaries we have come to know and cherish, of being personally blessed by an apostle, and of memories of my youthful missionary experiences.

Would I recommend a mission for other couples? Absolutely!  My testimony has grown to where many things are no longer based on faith but have come to be a knowledge. I have felt the Spirit’s influence in almost everything I do. And though we have had some failures in reaching some people, who were afraid to make the change, we have also had incredible moments when we could see what we were teaching come alive in the eyes of those we taught.

To be sure, we have missed our children and grandchildren a great deal, but much of what we do here in Mexico is done with the hope of blessing their lives. The memories of what we have done here and the people we have come to know and love so dearly will stay with us for the rest of our lives and beyond the grave.

To those of you that venture to read this I share my testimony. Our Savior awaits you, personally. He knows your name and through the quiet feeling of your heart, he is calling you and guiding you. There is live after death. If you have fears, lean on my knowledge. You will see your loved ones again. Life will go on forever.