Oh Happy Day!

June 22, 2016 

The day I got my mission call

It was a Thursday and I was at work I really was hoping that it would be coming any day now

 (I'd been waiting 3 weeks already!)

I'd been texting my mom everyday bugging her to check the post, it was about lunch time and I hadn't heard from my mom so I didn't really think anything more of it,

I was working with a patient when one of the girls I worked with said my mom was on the phone for me. Instantly I started freaking out.

The rest of the work day was a bust Im pretty sure I was useless after my mom called me saying 

"IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE!"

I rushed home after work trying to compose my excitement and panic,

soon enough my family and I were all home 

and we were off too Waterton!

I honestly really don't remember opening my call, I defiantly was a nervous wreck trying to open and read my call but what I do remember is seeing England and being completely dumbfounded

so much so my family started freaking out because I was leaving them hanging big time...

I've been called to the England Birmingham Mission!

and well the rest is History.

Holiness to the Lord the House of the Lord

On May 4th I took out my endowment at the Cardston Alberta Temple.

Now for those of you who don't understand the goings on of the Temple I think this quote
from Elder Russell M Ballard will help explain things.

When men and women go to the Temple, they are both endowed with the same power, which is priesthood power. All men and all women have access to this power for help in their lives. All who have made sacred covenants with the Lord and who honor those covenants are eligible to receive personal revelation, to be blessed by the ministering of angels, to commune with God, to receive the fulness of the gospel, and, ultimately, to become heirs alongside Jesus Christ of all our Father has.

Now before we can go to the temple we have to go through an interview process with our Bishop and then with the Stake President this is to determine that we are worthy and ready to enter the Temple.

Before I took out my Endowment my Bishop told me

 that to be worthy does not mean to be perfect.

I cannot tell you enough how much this has helped me over the last few months

 since being Endowed. I have been blessed with the gift of being incredibly critical of myself and I find that I often compare myself to what I think perfect should be 

and yes sometimes this does help me in pushing myself to try and be better

 but most times Im a bit too much and its more damaging then good. 

But knowing that no one on this earth is perfect except for the Saviour

 is incredibly helpful to remind me that as long as I'm striving to be  worthy 

and to do my best at being obedient then I am welcome in my Fathers Temples. 

He never asked us to be perfect 

he just asked us to keep his commandments 

and follow the Saviour.