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It's Good to be Home

 


Missions are hard. You give your whole self every single day for a long time. You have to do scary things like talk to people you don't really know and have major changes in your life every 6 weeks and tedious things like create workshops plan. Yesterday, Sister Maxfield and I were both hangry and trying to plan a lesson and just started laughing at ourselves cause we were struggling so hard!

But there are also times of complete, full joy that I can't even describe that makes everything else so worth it. 

Cindy got baptized Saturday morning, and it was one of the most wonderful things I've ever been a part of. She's gone through a lot to get to where she is now and has a lot of hard things yet to come, but she is truly converted to Jesus Christ and cares more about following Him then anything else. There is such a light about her! After the baptism, she said she felt this weight lifted off her that she didn't even know was there. In church, she bore her testimony, and she said, "It's good to be home." 

Christ is home and His church on the Earth is home. He wants everyone to come to Him. My favorite scripture in the Book of Mormon is 3 Nephi 9:13. It's Christ talking to a group of people who have been going through a lot of hard things and not making the best choices. But Christ says to them, "return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you." 

I'm so grateful for the joy I've felt as I've come closer to Him.

Love you all!

Sister Liberty Johnson









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