After taking him home I went up to my little brother Joaquin's cemetery to ponder. I got out of my car and sat on the winter/spring grass (aka the dead and the new grass coming in)
The sun was setting and I was playing beautiful hymns on my phone. I looked down after a few minutes and my phone was at 1%. (Don't you hate that??) I hopped back onto my feet and plugged my phone into my car to charge. I saw my scriptures and journal in the back seat and felt I needed to grab them. I pulled them out and say back down and my brothers headstone. I decided I was just going to read where I last left off in the Book of Mormon. Have you ever heard those stories where someone pulled out their scriptures and the wind blew it open to a page and there was a verse that they needed to hear?? Well that's exactly what happened to me. As I opened my scriptures to where I had last left off the wind blew and opened it to 1 Nephi chapter 21. In purple were some words I had highlighted from a few verses. I first read the words read "...go forth; to them that sit in darkness: show yourselves"(1 nephi 21:9) then I looked up and read "....and my God shall be my strength."(1 nephi 21:5) and last but not least I read "..for by the spirit are all things made known.."(1 nephi 22:2).
So now you may be asking yourself well.. What does that have to do with anything?? For those of you who don't know I've ALWAYS had the desire to serve a mission. From the moment I walked into my high school seminary classroom. The moment I gained my own testimony of our savior Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father. I've recently set in stone that I will be starting my papers to serve a mission! And these few verses I read today confirmed to me that I was doing what I needed to do.
Now some of you might be asking well why Desi? You're a girl you don't need to serve a mission.
That's exactly it. I WANT to serve a mission. I just love the gospel so much and all the joy and comfort it's brought into my life ..I don't know how I'd ever survive with out knowing that we have a savior who loves and knows us perfectly and that he died for us so that we as imperfect human beings could repent and return home again. I love knowing that. And I want do share that with others so they can know that as well. Just like in Lehis vision. How he partook of the fruit and how he wanted his family to partake of the fruit as well because it was so great! (My exact feeling) I would love to share with others about our loving redeemer. Ok ok you get the point tehe.
I believe in Christ ~ xoxo