"Dear Sister Gopinath:
"You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Singapore Mission. You should report to the Provo MTC on August 17th, 2011. You will prepare to preach the gospel in the Malay language."
So, I screamed when I saw "Singapore" and I screamed when I saw "Malay." (The Singapore Mission also covers the country of Malaysia.) Of course it was somewhere I never actually considered.
I will be teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ in a largely non-Christian land... in a land next door to India, the land of my fathers. I keep going back and forth between being so joyful/peaceful/optimistic/grateful, and being an overwhelmed nervous wreck. "Nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted" (2 Nephi 4:19). I trust God. He knows what He's doing.
Greater happiness than I have yet experienced is waiting for me. Challenges lie ahead, as well as many miracles.
I am so lucky. I get to be a MISSIONARY. This is something that's so meaningful to me already, and something that I'm sure will continue to become more and more meaningful to me.
This will be the adventure of a lifetime.
I LOVE your blog background. Soooo asian...
ReplyDeleteLike you. You will be the most asian person in our family when you get back. ;)
Hahahah. Even more than Dad?
ReplyDeleteP.S. I like my blog background too; thank you. :)
Hmmmm I don't know. We'll have to have an asian-throw down when you get back to see. :)
ReplyDeleteAn Asian throwdown! HAHAHA! I don't even know what that would look like, except that it would be incredible.
ReplyDeleteIt WILL be incredible. After all, I DO have 18 months to prepare for it. :D
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