Week Seventy-One!
I’m pretty sure you know that I will only be writing like 5 more
emails after this. How weird is that.
This week I had a very interesting talk with my mission
President. He called and asked me when I wanted to go home. It kind of hit me hard, and was never a
question I had really thought about being a real option.
It led me to think of an email my dad sent when I had only 9
months in the mission. When I climbed
Huatapallaga and he explained that it is like the mission. You climb to the top and you get there and
you feel so good but you realize that you’re only half way done. It’s just as hard and long going down because you’re
sore and tired but when you’re all the way finished its so much better.
That is where I’m at. I
remember getting to the flat path were I could see the bus parked waiting for
me and just wanting to be there so bad.
I wanted it to come and pick me up and take me from there, almost to the
end, but not quite. But now looking back
thinking that was the part I was the most proud of, that I could finish even
though it was the hardest part. Harder
than the lack of oxygen, harder than peeling an orange at an altitude that I
never want to experience again, was the flat easiest walk to the bus.
It was the most rewarding because it would have been easy to give
up there. It took a lot of encouragement
from others but I did it. That is where
I am now. I don’t know how much I wanted
to tell President I wanted to go home early, but I knew the Lord needed me here
until the end, and He needs me to put my all into it and continue strong in the
work. So thank you everyone for your
encouragement.
I love you all
Hermana Peters
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