This past week. Wow.
And I'm not talking about the early hours.
I love going to the temple. It was totally worth taking care of obnoxious children without all their toys.
Somehow, it so happened that I ended up spending a good deal of time with the sister missionaries this week. It was so cool to see them share the gospel and the light of Christ! By the way, sister missionaries serve for a year and a half. They completely give up everything for that time so they can fully focus on bringing people to Christ. It's a major commitment.
I also got to hang out with an amazing Spanish girl who is about to put in her papers for her mission. We were both in charge of children while the parents were in the temple. We bonded very quickly- she even said that being with me was like being with her sisters! We had a lot of fun talking and just hanging out.
These two things were the main catalysts in me starting to seriously think about going on a mission. When I was 18/19, I really really really REALLY wanted to go, but I was too young. I guess it just fell out of my mind, especially as I had a lot of other things going on.
And then last night, we went to a church meeting. I ran into the senior missionaries. I went to talk to the sister, and I heard these (or similar...) words come out of my mouth: "Are there any sister missionaries close to Braunschweig? I want to go with them and help." And just like that, we were on our way to find out from the zone leaders where there were sisters and if I could help them out on the weekends. Then we went to my host dad to see if it'd be alright, and he got waaay excited and asked if I could go on a mini-mission. I hadn't dared to ask about that, seeing as I thought there'd be no way I could take off from work for a week to go help the sisters. Yeah, I do have a month of vacation, but I thought I used that all up while they were on vacation back in August. I guess not... So now it's all in the works. I'll spend a week, probably later this month, with the sisters in the city over and see what it's really like to be on a mission.
I think I do want to go on a mission. So I'll prepare, and if something else comes up, then ok. It never hurts to study the gospel :) I don't have anything else to do come July 24th anyways. Hopefully they'll send me to Germany...
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