Guess who got some beautiful mission pictures taken :) Courtesy of Katie Wells Photography! She is a miracle worker! Haha thought I would share a few!
Well. Here we are! By now you have probably learned that I am going out to serve in Reynosa, Mexico. Crazy to think I would have killed to have that knowledge just a couple of months ago and now it is everywhere! K. So, I just started this blog and decided it looked blan so I figured I would write about what has happened so far. K.. don't hurt me. I am starting all the way back in Oct. of 2012. I love those days in life that sneak up on you and change your life forever-in a good way haha. October 6, 2012 was one of those days for me. It was General Conference and not gonna lie... I usually didn't pay attention very well.. especially for a Saturday Session but for some reason I was up that morning watching. I remember this day a little to well. I was watching with my mom and this is what I saw: I remember just crying. Crying a lot. I remember I went outside and sat on my porch to really think about what had just happened. Was this a calling for me? Could I really pull this off? I am not very good at doing anything what makes me feel like I could make this happen. All these thoughts. I took a second and just prayed. In the middle of my prayer I had this memory come to mind of writing in my journal about missions. It was one of those memories that you can't remember if it was real or a dream it was so long ago. I went to my room dug up my old middle school journal. Rummaged through all the entries about boys and friends until. I found it. No. I found Them. I had been up what? maybe 2-3 hours. How had I ended up here? I was lying on my bed reading these entries about how I really wanted to go on a mission some day. How I just felt it. Being a 14 year old I didn't get to deep but I recognized the feeling. I wondered over and over again, will that be something I can do when I am 21 cause I really don't know how life can be put on pause. Wow. Well I feel I should take a second and thank 14 year old Kelsy for keeping a journal. and well 14 year old Kelsy, this is current Kelsy. You got your answer! This was not the only decision that made me want to serve but it is definitely a day I will not forget in the process of everything. I felt it should be documented. K. I am skipping to the Call. Almost a year later. August 14, 2013. It came. It finally CAME! I know every missionary has had THAT feeling. Overwhelmed with excitement, anxiousness, nervousness, happiness, all of it! But then the best happens. You open that call and know that it was just for you. then the only thing that I was feeling was love. It's funny to me that a place that I had never, ever heard of was suddenly the thing I loved the most in life. I knew nothing about it and then within a matter of moments my heart was wanting to give Reynosa everything it had! I had a familiar feeling, like the one I had when I was 14. After that day I started to realize that I didn't leave until January. That was 5 months away. It was more than fine with my though since I had a job, family, friends, and holidays to occupy my time. I want to write about two exciting things that have happened during my wait and then I will wrap up this extremely long "summary" of my pre mish life! No.1: My friend Cobair got baptized! My friends and I caravanned down to where she's at for college which is about a 5 hour drive (Yes, we went there and back in a day! Woo!) It was an amazing, amazing experience! I seriously loved every minute of it! No.2: I went through the temple on September 11. I absolutely loved going through with my two brothers and my sister. Something you will learn about me fast is that I love my siblings more than anything. They are all the very best! ooof! That was a lot for today! (I already sound motherly...crap.)
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