Service With A Smile

So yesterday was my 21st birthday! Yay. Now I can officially gamble, drink and do all the things I don't do. Haha. It was a great day, my mom and I went shopping, and then last night I went to The Dark Knight Rises premiere with my brothers and my bff Mikelle :)

So lately I have been looking for ways to prepare myself more for serving a mission. I am taking mission prep as well as doing my fair share of reading. I figured I should start preparing myself now for the amount of reading I will be doing on the mission. My brother just put his mission papers in and shared this book with me which I just finished...

It was a quick read, but an interesting one. One of the main things the author suggested doing to prepare was serving. This has also been a theme in my mission prep class. Why didn't I think of this before? The term is "serving a mission" so why not do more service? The book especially talked about being an example first through service, people are more apt to listen to you if they trust you and you have a good relationship with them. A good way of doing this is serving them.

So, I am hoping to put this new-found knowledge into action and serve more. I am excited to be able to help those around me! :) Talk to ya soon!

Jesus Wants Me To Teach Sun...BEAMS!

Hey friends! It has been a good Sunday! Today I was called to be the teacher for one of the Sunbeam classes in my ward. (the Sunbeams are the kids that are 3-4 years old) I am so excited and today we learned about our families and why we should love them. It was kind of overwhelming in the fact that since I don't have kids of my own, I don't know exactly the abilities that 3 and 4 year-olds possess. I mean, they can color, but what else!? So obviously it was a day full of learning and overall, it was pretty good. I love these kids already, some of them I had last year when I taught nursery, but they are just great and love the gospel! I can already tell we are going to have lots of fun. I mean, its the perfect calling for me seeing as my mental capacity and attention span is pretty similar to theirs.

After I was asked to teach the Sunbeams, I started thinking about all the other things in my life that have and are preparing me to serve a mission. Most recently I had the opportunity to be an EFY counselor and it taught me so much about following the Spirit and about how much our Heavenly Father loves His children. It was an amazing experience for me and I hope to be able to take those things I learned into my mission.

These were my girls my first week and they taught me SO much. I love them all and they are just amazing spirits. Also, my freshman year of college I had the opportunity to work at the MTC for a short time. The MTC is the Missionary Training Center where missionaries go to learn how to teach the gospel and to learn a language if their mission requires it. I had the opportunity to interact with amazing missionaries and a lot of them have been coming home from their missions recently. Their love of the gospel and their example and willingness to serve is a great source to me for strength and has played a big part in my decision to serve a mission. I am so grateful for the time I was able to spend working there and for the amazing people I got to meet and now call my friends.

I can see how Heavenly Father has been preparing me for a while now to serve a mission. It is a great testimony to me to know that He loves me enough to do that for me and to remember me and what I need. I hope that I can take everything I have learned and am continuing to learn and be a better missionary.

New Journey!

Hey friends! It definitely has been a while since I have been on. I recently have made the decision to put my education at BYU on hold and leave everything behind to serve a mission for the LDS church. I am super excited about this and everything that comes along with it. I started my papers at the beginning of June and am working on them now. So, this blog is transforming into a pre-mission and mission blog for me. So, follow along to read about the journey! It will be fun!

I changed the title of the blog because I refuse to be a frumpy sister missionary. Thanks to a bunch of new rules for the sisters, I can put a little flair into my appearance and let my personality show as a missionary. So, there will definitely be posts along the way of how I am not becoming a frumpy sister missionary. So, thanks for reading and stay tuned! Loves!