Chamado para servi-Lo, rei da glória celestial.

Published on December 6, 2012

I have been called to serve in the Brazil Vitoria mission. I will report to the Brazil MTC on Wednesday April 10, 2013. I will be speaking Portuguese, and it is anticipated that I will serve for a period of 18 months.

This feels so unreal. Like I'm in a dream, or something. I have been waiting for my mission call all week, well actually all my life, and it finally came today. I let it sit for a little while, and then I took it down to my bedroom to open it alone. I said a prayer and asked God to help me know that this is where He needs me to go. And I feel like it is. I feel like I should be terrified right about now. In 4 months from Monday, I will be in a foreign country where no one speaks my language. I will have a few weeks to learn a new language and how to teach people in this new language and then I will be sent out on the streets of Brazil, with a companion, to teach people about the gospel of Jesus Christ. I should be terrified. But I'm not. I am excited, and nervous, and have had a good deal of second thoughts today. But every time I have one of those thoughts, I realize that God has called me to the Brazil Vitoria mission for a reason. And it is my privilege to find out what that reason is.

I will very soon be a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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