...Was Getting on this
Plane and Coming Home to You´´
Well,
This is it.
My official last letter
as a missionary, and I can`t lie, the tears are pouring down my face as I write
this. This has been a super emotional, but amazing last week. Full of Goodbyes
and See you Laters, Lots of hugs, lots of kisses, lots of tears, lots of work,
and many memories that I will never forget.
This last week I had the
amazing opportunity to go to the temple and watch my wonderful Peruvian
Sandoval Family be sealed for time and for all eternity. There aren't words to
describe the joy that was felt to know that I had been a tiny part in helping
them get to that point, and to see them make that covenant together. This week
was also the wedding of the family C., that the Elders have been teaching
but that we have come to know really well as well, and then on Saturday they
were baptized, Mom, Dad, and son, along with our investigator R. It was
wonderful.
Yesterday both Hna
Ortuño and I gave talks in church, and then cried together last night as we
walked out of our last lesson as missionaries. Being a missionary is the
hardest, most exhausting, amazing, fulfilling experience I have ever had in my
whole life. I can`t believe how fast these past 18 months have gone, and it
seems surreal to me that tomorrow I will be released. It also seems surreal
that I will be in a different country, Peru has come to feel like home to me
and I will miss it so much, along with all of the wonderful people I have
met.
The gospel changes
lives. Of this I testify with all my heart. I am so grateful for the opportunity
my Heavenly Father has given me to have front row seats to the change in so
many people. But most of all I am grateful for the change that has happened in
me. I know that I am not the same Hermana Shelton that left home 18 months ago,
and I hope that I have become who it is that my Heavenly Father wants me to be.
Yo amo esta obra. Amo la
mision, amo ser misionera. Amo Peru. :) Se que esta es la Iglesia verdadera,
que Jose Smith fue un profeta y que por medio de el hoy en dia tenemos el Libro
de Mormon que fue escrito por estos tiempos para ayudarnos a volver a la
presencia de nuestro amoroso Padre Celestial. Se sin ninguna duda en mi corazon
que el Evangelio bendice a las familias. He visto la differencia que hace el
Evangelio en la vida de muchas personas, y he tenido experiencias que nunca
olvidare. Espero poder ponerlos en practica ahora que voy a ser misionera
retornada...je, que extraño. :)
(Translation- I love this work. I love the mission, I love being a missionary. I love Peru. :) I know that this is the true church, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that through him we have the Book of Mormon today. The Book of Mormon was written for these times to help us return to the presence of our loving Heavenly Father. I know without a doubt in my heart that the gospel blesses families. I have seen the difference that the gospel makes in the lives of many people, and I have had experiences that I will never forget. I hope to be able to put these things into practice now that I will be a returned missionary...ahh, how strange. :) )
I love you all. Thank
you for all the support, love, and prayers that have been sent my way, I have
felt them. I can`t wait to see you all soon :)
Les amo con todo mi
corazon. Nos vemos mañana!
Con mucho amor, y como
siempre....
Hermana
Shelton
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