Life's Mission

Through much of my life I've had some misconceptions as to what my life’s mission was. Most of those misconceptions centered around my employment. Early in my life I thought I was supposed to be successful entrepreneur or possibly a great leader of the Church. I made changes in my career and locations where we lived with those ideas in mind. Later on, I decided I was supposed to be a writer. In the latter I did find a great deal of personal satisfaction and still do. It is a wonderful outlet, but I don’t know that is a life mission or purpose.

Two years ago my wife and I decided to go on a mission for the Church. As “matrimonios” we were allowed to choose where we would go and what we would do, but we decided to leave it in the Lord’s hands. He sent us to Mexico and to the Chalco Mission.

Last night we had a baptism for a very special woman named Magdalena. She is the matriarch of a family and a woman filled with goodness. Members of her family had been baptized, but she had resisted for more than five years.  She listened to us. While I watched her being baptized by her son, my heart burned within me. My heart burned throughout the baptism meeting, and I felt the Lord’s approbation. I knew I had accomplished part of what I had been sent here to Mexico to accomplish. A couple of weeks before her baptism, I told President Crickmore about her. He said that Magdalena was someone we had been sent here to find and to teach.

Maybe there are other things that I have to accomplish in my life, but I know by leaving it in the Lord’s hands, he has helped me to accomplish part of what I was sent here to do. I have helped Him bring his children unto Christ here in the Chalco Mission, just as I did in the Veracruz Mission forty-four years ago.