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P.S. Thank you for all of the support!!!!!!! :)
This is me when I was six years old. Actually, maybe I was four here. Whateva.
Around this time in my life, I was looking at an old photo album from my mom who served in Korea. She is white p.s. I remember looking up at my mom and saying to her "I want to go on a mission." Maybe that's actually a lie, but I am pretty sure that is how it happened.
So all of my life, a mission was in the plans UNTIL I got to college. I went to the most amazing most magical place called BYU-I! (Idaho) I saw a ton of married people and babies at the same time that my desire to serve the Lord in the way I was supposed to was growing. By that I mean being WHERE He wanted me WHEN He wanted me to be there. DO I STAY HOME AND GET MARRIED?! DO I SERVE A MISSION?! DO I HAVE BABIES (After I get married)?! And so I prayed, and I prayed hard.
My answer didn't come as a huge manifestation. I didn't get proposed to. I didn't all of a sudden know that I was supposed to serve a mission. INSTEAD, I received my answer "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, and there a little..." (2 Ne. 28:30) I would start to tear up when someone started to talk about missionary work, when I watched mission call openings on Youtube, and when I looked at longer skirts... but for reals. I felt that peaceful and warm buttery feelings on the insides that going on a mission was what I was supposed to do, and still feel the Holy Ghost testifying to me that this is what I should do.
ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT GOING ON A MISSION? ooorrrr HAVE YOU DECIDED NOT TO GO ON A MISSION?
I love when sisters stay home and get married instead. I also love when sisters serve a mission for the right reasons. Like I say "The only thing better than every sister serving a mission, is every sister doing what they should be doing." Not serving a mission does not make a girl any less. YOU ARE SOOO AWESOME! Sister Beck came and visited the school once, and said that every girl should PREPARE to serve a mission, because we are all life long missionaries anyways, right? Maybe your choices aren't between staying home and potentially meeting a hubby and serving a mission. Maybe they are to further your career, travel the world, or maybe you don't even have another set option. I have a strong testimony in Heavenly Father watching over our lives very carefully. He knows us, and He knows our needs. I plan on traveling and holding orphans and seeing places and having a family, but right now it's mission time. Pray about it and see. Maybe the Lord needs you somewhere else right now, or maybe He needs you at exactly where you are thinking of being. If you are planning on serving a mission, I am sure you will ROCK ITTTT! If not, I am sure you will ROCK ITTTT too :) Have the best time of your life either way :)
-Joyce Tran :)
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