Called to Serve

Getting a mission call is a big thing! It really is. It's the place you are going to be living and serving for the next two years of your life! So, naturally, there is a lot of anticipation, nervousness, and imagining that happens when you start those papers. Once they're submitted, all that multiplies by 10! Are you going to go here or there? What if you go to Europe! South America! What if you have to learn a crazy language!? Those are definitely many of the topics of conversation.

My Cousin, Elder Taylor, in Brazil.

What really matters, though, is are you willing to serve with all your "hear, might, mind and strength"? I didn't get called to another country. I don't get to learn a new language. I don't get to experience an entire new culture. Was I a little disappointed? Yea, I was. But that was because I hadn't fully realized what my purpose was! If I had gone to another country I may have been able to baptize people and help them come unto Christ, but, would they have been the right people? Would they have been the spirits I had PROMISED to find, and testify of the Living Christ to?? No, they wouldn't have been. North Carolina is where God wants me to be. When that realization really hit me, I got REALLY excited. I was going to go find, teach, and baptize those precious souls!!! And now I'm doing it! I'm searching everyday; testifying left and right about Jesus Christ. Nothing makes me happier than being able to serve my Savior and my Heavenly Father by spreading the knowledge of their infinite, unconditional love.

So, while all my friends are off in Italy, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador,  Mexico, Germany, Hungary, and Denmark, I have the amazing pleasure of serving my beautiful brothers and sisters here in North Carolina. As we all, as missionaries and members, magnify our callings  wherever we are in the world, we are doing Christ's work; we are spreading love, joy, and peace to the lost sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father! How amazing is that!?

And what is the most important thing to remember? It's that God loves you. He loves you, is watching over you, and is thinking about you constantly! He is pouring you out blessings all the time.

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for god is love."

~ 1 John 4:7-8