Half Baked Missionary
Hollaaaaa from your halfway missionary!! Nine months ago tomorrow I waved goodbye to my sister and stepped on a Mexico City bound plane to prepare for the next 18 months of my life. Ohhhh all the things I didn't know haha. And many things I have yet to learn! Milestones have the effect of self-reflection, especially since the end of April it's been a year since I opened my mission call. A year and 15 pounds later(thank you Utah member dinners haha) I find myself speaking spanish in Wyoming with a dying companion(not literally- that just means she's going home soon) tracting the trailer parks of the desert. Lol. What have I learned in all this time? Wow sooo much. I have learned about grace, and that I am not here as a missionary to do this myself. I have a companion and God and the Spirit and I must work together with all of them! I've learned to have fierce faith and be bold with love in inviting people to make changes in their lives that will bring them e...