Hello Everyone!
I thought I would start this off with sharing why I wanted to personally serve a mission. I think you could ask a lot of people the same question of why did they feel/want to serve a mission?
It may not have been something super easy to figure out, but it was something that they felt was for them. The thing is. though, everyone goes through their own path to get to this conclusion. Some are the same but most of the time it's an unique experience.
With me, it all started when I was a little girl. We lived in an area that had more sister missionaries than elders serving. Two specific sister missionaries would visit my family all the time, and I loved them SO much! There was just something that made them so awesome to me! I realized later that it was because they were examples of Jesus Christ/serving him, and the Lord has his powerful light he shines through all his missionaries that serve him.
Because of those two sisters, I grew wanting to serve a mission, but I just didn't know when that would be down the road. It was so far away at the time. I just knew that at some point it would work itself all out by the time I could possibly go. (Let me tell you that I didn't realize how much that would be true.) In October 2012 General Conference, it was announced the big age change for boys that they could go at 18 instead of 19 and girls at 19 instead of 21! When the age change switched, it then hit me that I needed to really start taking this mission decision seriously with it being more around the corner.
Looking back now, I don't remember a specific day but moments where I knew that serving at the new mission age was the window I needed to go in. The best way I could explain that I knew it was for me was when I was back in Young Womens and one of my leaders said that once she made the choice to marry her husband, she kept recieving revelation even to this day that she made the right choice. I would say that it has been the same way for me.
Like I was saying at the beginning, everyone that considers a mission gets to their answer in different ways. I have found that to be more true as I hear from my friends how they got their answers.
The picture above is a group of girls that all recieved their answer to serve and have gotten their mission calls. Two of them had given their farewell talk the same day of the picture!
Something also that has been a huge contributor for me are the examples I have all around with friends that are giving up a year and a half or two years to serve a mission. I know that even though we will not be all together physically, we will be in spirit - standing as one force gathering the lost sheep of Christ's fold.
I feel that I'm a part of this huge work to bring souls unto God and bring the spirit into their lives. I know that without the Holy Ghost, my life would be completely empty without his guidence to carry me through every part of my life. As missionaries that is the purpose of why we go and preach God's word, to bring the spirit in and let it testify that what we teach is true!
So once I put in my papers to serve, the waiting began! I would soon be finding out where I was going to be assigned. Each day I would go to the mailbox to see if my mission call had arrived . . .
When it came to waiting for my call to come, it was sometimes really
hard. And after awhile, it felt like it never was going to come!
Alright! I knew that it would come eventually, but I didn't know it would be exactly a whole month to the day for it to come!
I didn't realize the support I would receive from those
that came to see me open my call and also those that are excited for me
to serve! It really means a lot to not just have it coming from my
family, but all my friends that I hold dear to me. Not everyone was able to make it when I opened my call - and I missed them being there. But these are some of my dear friends who could come!
And now for some more friends who are such great people!
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| A Dear Friend Leaving For A Mission As Well |
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| A Friend Who Always Knew How To Brighten A Situation |
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| To Find Adventure |
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| Another Wonderful Friend Leaving For A Mission |
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One Of The Girls I Showed Before That Made The Choice To Serve.
Her Farewell Was That Day. |
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| A Terrific Friend Of Support |
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| Dance Partner And An Example |
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| Creative Mind And Wise |
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| This Is A Friend I Never Thought I Would See Again In This Life... Or So I Thought... |
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Well, I Guess I Was Wrong. She Had Moved Away When I Was Little,
But It Just So Happened That I Bumped Into Her While I Was At A Friend's
Mission Farewell. She Was Serving A Mission Here, Where I Live, Herself.
It Was A Great Reunion!
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| Friends Of My Laurel Class From Church That Shared Their Love |
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| A Friend Whose Sense Of Humor Makes A Person's Day |
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A Best Friend That Welcomed Me Right In When I First Moved Where I Live Now.
She Is Someone That Is Also Serving A Mission and Comes to the MTC 20 Days After I Enter
The MTC. |
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Words In Ways Can't Express The Relationship I've Grown With This Person.
He Has Always Been One That Accepted Me For Who I Was
One Of Respect For Me Serving A Mission.
And One That I Can Always Count On. |
There are so many others and if a person finds that they are not on here, know that I love you just the same as these others! I just didn't have a picture handy while trying to put this blog together quickly. I am SO blessed for the life I have, and I want to give back to God and find those that don't feel this way about their life. By bringing souls unto Christ, they then gain the light and blessings in their personal life, like I have in mine. I am so excited to serve my Father in Heaven to find his lost sheep and to bring them unto him.
Until Next Time,
Motra (Sister) Bezas
