I hope everyone had a great Christmas!! I love spending the holidays with my family. It's so nice to be down from college, have time off work, and just sit by the Christmas tree and relax!
But I have a confession.
This will be my last Christmas with my family for the next two years!
I've decided to serve an LDS mission!!:)
If you would have asked me three or four months ago if I wanted to serve a mission I would have said no way, that's not for me. I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life; I had a plan and I was determined to follow it. It seemed simple at first - go to USU on a scholarship, maybe transfer somewhere else when my scholarship was up, major in speech sciences and Deaf education, work hard, get a job, and meet new people. It was the perfect plan! Or so I thought.
If i've learned anything over my eighteen years of living it's that the second you think you have life figured out... it changes. Life has a habit of doing that. Sometimes that change can be hard, but - more often than not - that change brings aspects into your life that you didn't even know you needed. After moving to Utah State my life was great! I had a scholarship, I was doing well in my classes, I loved my apartment and my roommates, and I had a pretty great job for a college student. So why was I feeling like something was missing?
My roommate had been talking about serving a mission, and it became something we talked about often. I think those conversations are what planted the seed in my mind. My life was on a good course, but maybe there was more in store than I thought. Maybe there was more planned for me than I had planned for myself. Maybe I was just too stubborn and set in my ways to see it.
So after a lot of prayer and council from family members, my bishop, and friends I will be putting my papers in in April of 2015!:) Here is to a new year!:)
Happy New Year!
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