Well, it's my last time emailing home as a missionary. I hope you're all really excited to see me in a few days, because I'm so excited to see all of you! My mission has been so long, short, hard, fun, terrible, and awesome. I'm definitely returning as a very very different person, but a lot of me is still the same. It'll be so neat to see, hear, feel and think about so many things that I remember, but have forgotten. A whole new culture has become a part of who I am, that many things from who I was have been long buried and untouched for a while. I'm excited to watch you all bring it all back out of me :)
If you've been reading my emails from being a missionary in the Micronesia Guam Mission, maybe you've noticed that life out here hasn't exactly been sunshine and daisies for the past year and a half. I've gone through some pretty difficult times and there have been many things I really haven't enjoyed. But I learned that the gospel gives us joy. People don't give us joy, missions don't give us joy, food doesn't give us joy, work doesn't even give us joy. But the gospel, the idea that our older brother Jesus Christ, paid the price for all our weaknesses and faults and mistakes, and that through him, we are reconciled from our wrong doings to something greater, is what gives us really good joy. Sometimes we access that gospel through people, missions, food (maybe?), and work. And THAT (the gospel) is the very thing that makes those things joyful :)
So, no. My mission wasn't very fun most of the time. It was actually really really hard and I didn't 'enjoy' as much as I would have liked to. Sometimes it really just wasn't fun. BUT, I did find GREAT joy in seeing the Saviors gentle hand in my life. I came to know Him better through the things I experienced and I really learned what it feels like to be healed by Him. What a great reason to serve a mission!! I did it!! I really really did it! And you know what, missions are so different for every person. So just because my mission wasn't fun, doesn't mean yours will be terrible. Just because I learned "x" on my mission, doesn't mean you will too.
But hey, I actually did have some really fun times as a missionary and I got to experience some pretty great things. I lived on an island for 18 months!!! I know a foreign language or two! And I know more about who Jesus Christ is! What a great thing!
Thank you all for you're love and support as I've been serving the Lord. I hope to see you soon!!! I'm 'dying' in the mission. (To 'Die' Is to go home) But hopefully I go out like Alma 62:37.
Love you!! See you soon!
Sister Felt
That was a little longer than I thought it was gonna be. Well, last the best of all I guess!
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| Saipan Sisters |
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| Personal study at the beach on Saipan |
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| Painting rocks with a little girl who got baptized the next day |
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| Just a fun selfie in the palace of Sister Bagacina and Sister Hyatt |
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| Saipan Zone |
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