Jan 6

I officially have 6 minutes to write this... now 5.

So!  This week was crazy!

It was Pday, then district meeting and double exchanges (which means 2 days of me being the only one who could speak Spanish in my companionship), and New Years!  AH!  So exciting (well... not really.  It was just a normal day haha), and then Weekly Planning, Saturday, then church. 

And here I am again!

This transfer has BY FAR gone the fastest in my entire mission.  Probably because I love my companion more than everything.  She is just so wonderful!

And the holidays were perfect.  Thank you everyone for contributing to my happiness this Holiday Season!  It really was perfect.

So this last week I have had the opportunity to really think about this past year of my life.

It started off at college, with the plans to eventually go on a mission, I was working and involved in Women's Chorus... just kinda living life!  Then my dad died, and that put everything on hold.  I stopped thinking about the world- I stopped thinking about things like school, work, friends, everything.

And I started doubting going on a mission.  But then the confirmation came.  I knew I had to go.

So I did everything to just get out in the Vineyard of the Lord as fast as possible!

I got my call, the semester ended, I went to Ohio and Arizona to see all my family before I left,

And now I am here.

Can you believe it?  I can't.

This year has been the craziest of my life, but I have come to know my Heavenly Father more than I ever have before.  I know that He loves me.  I have an unshaking testimony of Missionary Work and Obedience.

11/12 months of this next year will be spent on my mission.  It is so strange to think that.  It seems so far away, but on the same note, I cannot imagine myself being home.  I think I have finally adjusted!  I love this work more than anything.  This is the greatest decision of my life.  It is hard, so hard.  But it is so worth it.

The Gospel is worth it.

This next week will fly by again (I am going CAMPING!!! Don't worry, you will get full details next week), and then the transfer is over.

So. Crazy.

There is just not enough time in this work to waste.  And I am grateful that after my mission I still get to serve and share the Gospel.

Stay strong everyone!

Make 2014 the best year of your life thus far, because I know it will be in mine!

Love,

Hermana Bryant