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Happy Monday family and friends,
I
can`t believe that this day is here... The last email that I will send
to all of you from here in Peru as a missionary... I`m entering the last
week of the most wonderful experience that I have had in my life..
It
has been full of ups and downs just like a roller coaster.. the saddest
of times and the happiest.. when I have been the most unsure and the
most sure.. the most scared and the most secure.. The mission has
prepared me.. and I have never been more grateful..
Sitting
in this chair in the local internet reality is washing over me as I
realize that it really is coming to an end.. I don`t want you to think
that means that I am not going to work hard this week, just that you can
all know that the moment that for me was so distant and so surreal is
finally becoming reality..
I thought a lot
about what to write this week and decided that the best thing I could do
is let you all know that the mission has changed me.. Why do I say
that? Because I think it is the most important thing that has happened
in this whole journey. I am not perfect.. still very far from it, but I
have come to understand that, accept it, and try my best to change.. I
don`t have a single doubt in my heart that we can all change and really
become like our Heavenly Father through the atonement of Jesus Christ..
there is nothing that brings me more joy than that knowledge.. A few
verses in Alma 26 have been brought to my mind that I feel sums up about
how I feel..
17 Who could have
supposed that our God would have been so merciful as to have snatched us from
our awful, sinful, andpolluted state?
19 Oh then, why did he
not consign us to an awful destruction, yea, why did he not let the sword of
his justice fall upon us, and doom us to eternal despair?
20 Oh, my soul, almost
as it were, fleeth at the thought. Behold, he did not exercise his justice upon
us, but in his great mercy hath brought us over that everlasting gulf of
death and misery, even to the salvation of our souls.
I
sometimes wonder how God has been so merciful to have snatched me out
of my fallen state.. I wonder sometimes why He did not just exercise his
justice... but he answers in Alma 24
14 And the great God has had mercy on us, and made
these things known unto us that we might not perish; yea, and he has made these
things known unto us beforehand, because he loveth our souls as well as he loveth our children;
therefore, in his mercy he doth visit us by his angels, that the plan of salvation might be made known unto us as well
as unto future generations.
Because
God loves my soul.. He did not want me to perish so he let me come to
the knowledge of every single thing I have learned here in Peru.. He
listens to our prayers.. no matter how insignificant we think they are,
He forgives us no matter how far we think we have fallen, He picks us
up. He loves us even though the world might hate us. He Can and Will
change us, we must only give Him our will.. He will make us into the
person He wants us to be. He Lives. I know with all my heart that He
lives and that He loves us.. And I will not boast of myself but of my
God, for in His strength I can do all things, therefore many mighty
miracles were wrought in ME for which I will praise his name forever
(Alma 26:12.. changed a little bit). Thank you for your support while I
have been here serving the Lord.. I love you all so much!
Hermana Imbler
