The Mish

The where, when, and why.

Okey doke. So maybe the real reason I felt it was necessary to have a blog is because it provides an outlet for all my thoughts, both the meaningful and the pointless. My thoughts have been all over the place lately because of my mission that is coming up. I can't even express to you how excited I am to go and serve. Absolutely it is kind of daunting and intimidating sometimes but when these thoughts come, I quickly replace them with thoughts of excitement and faith.

So the Where of the mission: 

Riverside, California

I honestly can't think of a place I'd rather serve than in the California Riverside mission. My only prayer before I got my call was that I wouldn't go somewhere freezing cold like Russia or Alaska. I told myself I didn't care where I went but I think deep inside I kind of wanted to have a crazy mission that people kind of gasped when I told them where I was going: somewhere foreign maybe. But when I opened my call and read where I was going, it felt absolutely perfect. I'm relieved I'm not going foreign and California is the best. My family lived in Redlands, California for about a year when I was 10 and I loved it! Some of my favorite memories are from Cali. My mission is in southern California, just north of San Diego and South of LA. It's also just about 10 miles south of Redland! I'll be right there! So exciting!

When? Well, I am leaving for the Provo MTC on July 17th! That is exactly 50 days from now and I still have so much to get done. It's sneaking up on me. My thought the other day was: If time is flying by right now, can you imagine how much faster time is going to go once I'm on my mission?!? 18 months will come and go before I have time to grasp the concept of what's happening! My goal for now and the mission is: Don't look forward more than you have to, but enjoy the moment and focus on the now. I know that sounds backwards from what the church teaches so let me justify it a little. It is always important to have a big picture in mind. However, for these 18 months that I am serving the Lord, I think it will be easy to look ahead at when I'm going home and how much time I have left. I don't want to do that or else the time will slip away from me before I know what happened. I want to enjoy each and every moment of my mission as best I can. That's the goal.

The Why of this post is the easiest part: because I love my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Because I love Him, I want to invite others to come unto him and experience the joy and truth that I have found in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Click here to learn more about me and my beliefs.