This week was a roller coaster. My companion and I are finally meeting middle grounds and I've just fallen in love with the person she is. We had the most beautiful baptism on Sunday and honestly I've never been so happy for the people who are progressing here in Morristown. Although there are always beautiful moments in the week there are also hard ones as well. After a long day my companion and I hopped in our car and I looked down at our phone to see we had missed two calls from....MY DAD. I immediately recognized the number and my stomach dropped. I knew this meant something had happened...I called him back and as I talked to him he told me uncle Chad had passed away..he passed the phone to my best friend since birth,Lizzie..and all I could hear was her crying...sobbing..gasping for air. My heart shattered to hear her in so much pain and the fact that I couldn't wrap my arms around her to comfort her KILLED me. It was a really hard night..although my perspective about that night really changed when my investigator told me that in jail all they get is letters saying that there family has died. And it really gave me a whole different view.....I AM SO GRATEFUL that I was able to hear her voice and tell her how much I loved her, I AM SO GRATEFUL that we've had the opportunity to be born into the gospel, that we KNOW he has a better calling up above, that God is REAL, that it isn't the end..that they WILL see him again because they are sealed as a family. Isn't that so beautiful? Isn't that something to rejoice about? My mission president called me and said "yuh know, I'm always a little bit envious of those who get called home back to heaven..I want to go, I want to be with God right now." He is the BEST mission pres. But seriously, what a blessing.
I am so grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. That it has been restored here again on earth! I am so so so happy. It fills me with so much love. What a blessing it is to be a member of his true church. To be his representative here in Morristown, NJ. I am grateful for his constant guidance. I testify of his unconditional love..He lives and He is SO GOOD.
