Getting Closer (week 75)

This week was like "everything fall into place for Sister Seamons to come home" week.

Sister Ballard helped me a ton with working on my schedule for BYU and telling me what's up at that school cause she knows it really well. So many other things about coming home are being taken care of for me and I couldn't be happier or more grateful. I am so excited to see my family and friends and Utah, and what helps me feel even more excited, is to know that I really have served a good 18 months. They haven't been perfect but as they have come to a close, I've realized more and more what they've meant to me and how they have changed me.

I remember having no idea what I was doing when I was set apart and came to the MTC. Being a missionary was so foreign to me as I didn't have any siblings who went before me who could've told me what it was like, but the Lord helped me get to the point to have just enough faith to take that step into the unknown. It was scary. But the Lord has guided my path. He has ALWAYS been there when I have tried to give even the smallest effort. I felt like I received so many blessings this week that really just proved to me that God has never forgotten the things I did here, and will continue to bless me for them even after the mission ends.

I've been meeting with David more than twice a week for the past four months. Yesterday he received the priesthood, and next week, on my last Sunday, he will pass the sacrament. I feel like a proud mom. :)

Comfort, who has been sick for the past 9 months, was in the hospital for over a week, but has finally received the medications she needs. She came to church yesterday. My heart was so happy when I saw her there. She thanked us profusely for helping her in coming back to church and for helping her get to and from the hospital and then visiting her there. That was also one of those "reward" moments that have happened just when I have needed them.

Oh right...totally forgot to update you all on "J"... Well we had to postpone his baptism. We taught him the commandments, and he was like, "yeah, I'll have problems with these two, but they're right." So he knows they're true and they're good, he just needs more time to actually start practicing them. But he's already working on it. I'm actually glad we have more time to create more of a foundation for him in the church, cause like, he hasn't even been to church yet. We've (or he...) gotta work on that. ;)

I'm so happy to be a missionary! How I only have one week left to be so, I don't know. But the Lord seems to know what He's doing with my life, so I'm just gonna follow and do what He says, haha.

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1. Week. Left.

Sister Seamons

Exchanges this week basically consisted of serving an old woman in Chemnitz
and hanging out with the elders once we found out we missed our train! Haha.