"Catching the Wave"

Well as most of you all know I tend to be very ecstatic about the topic of "Missionary Work"--very ecstatic. By reading my blog you could find something about my excitement here HERE heeeeerrrrreee or here or maybe here HERE!!!! here here,here! HHHHHEEEEeeeeeRRRrrrEE and here well, pretty much everywhere.

I love Missionary work.

Many of you know that I am planning on serving a full-time Mission at the age of 19, but there is much more to the story then that:

A fear came over me last summer, a fear that comes from growing up that I could not shake and it scared me. I almost felt that if I had the option to run off to Neverland I would, however you can't hide from fears no matter how much you wish you could. I was blessed with the opportunity to attend EFY during July and I learned to study more with a purpose and my purpose at that time was to know what I was supposed to do about college. I said a quick prayer asking that I would be comforted about my fear. I remember looking up  the first scripture which was Joshua 1:9

"Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."

I sort of shrugged it off not thinking much of it, yeah it was a good scripture but what did it have to do with me?
Next I turned to Doctrine and Covenants 25, the whole section was wonderful at that moment but the verse that stuck out particularly to me was verse 2:

"A revelation I give unto you concerning my will; and if thou art faithful and walk in the paths of virtue before me, I will preserve thy life, and thou shalt receive an inheritance in Zion."

and part of verse 9:

"And thou needest not fear...."

And lastly, I found my pocket-sized "For the Strength of Youth" I skimmed through it and turned to the back "Go Forward With Faith"


It hit me, I didn't need to fear, Heavenly Father had a plan for me and I needed to have faith in His plan and in His timing.

October 5, 2012:
As many of you well know I was down in Ceder City with my Chamber Choir for the Utah Shakespearean Competition, it was my 18th birthday  and it was a wonderful one. But the greatest present arrived the following day.
October 6, 2012
I was blessed to go to watch General Conference with the members of my choir when this announcement was made:

                                              (sorry for the quality, but it's still just as powerful)
I remember the shock that ran over me, I was overwhelmed with joy and tears and looked at two of my closest friends, Melanie and Delanie, both who were also crying. I then looked around at the other choir members and drama students that had come with us. All of our lives were changed.
The moment President Monson said these prophetic words I knew that serving a Full-time Mission when I am 19 was the right thing for me and I would be 19 in exactly a year.

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Within two weeks of the announcement my friends had started a group for "Preach My Gospel" study every Sunday. I had submitted for Summer Term instead of Fall Semester at BYU. Everything in my life began to change.
It all felt like a wonderful dream that I never wanted to wake up from, but it became a reality as soon as my  friend Kyle opened his Mission Call and then the stone began rolling--over 80 boys from my school now have their Mission Calls!

Now, me. It has taken me a long time to decide when I was going to submit my Mission Papers. Will I only be attending Summer Term before going out to serve or will I wait until after Fall Semester? Good question. And honestly I don't know. But I can tell you that I know I am going to begin working on my papers very soon and that this coming July is when I am supposed to submit them. I couldn't be more excited for anything.