Country roads.....take me home!!!

For this last transfer, I've really avoided thinking about going home and now that I have 4 days till i hop on that plane, it's becoming a sad reality. How do i leave behind this place and these people that i have come to love so much? In a recent email, my papa said " I know that when you are released and you take off your tag for the last time you will feel almost lost without your identity as a full-time missionary. But you will never be released as a disciple of Jesus Christ, and you will serve him the rest of your life". I am grateful that I don't have to have a name tag on my chest to follow christ or to be a missionary. 

I have recieved SO much as I have been on my mission. But the thing that is most important and dear to me, is the testimony that I've gained.

So, since this email goes to all the people most beloved and close to my heart, I want to share my testimony with y'all of the truths that I have learned over the past year and a half as a full-time missionary. 

Every day of my mission, I have testified of my savior. When I speak his sacred and holy name, I speak the truth. His atonement is for everyone. It can change people. It can transform people. I know that because I have seen it in myself and so many of the people I have come to know and love on my mission. Heavenly father hears and answers prayers. Jospeh Smith saw God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon was written by inspired men and it has power to soften hearts and heal sorrowful souls. It is true. God has a perfect plan for each of us. He loves us and wants us to return to him. The small and simple things are the most IMPORTANT things we can do to stay close to our father in heaven. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the answer to your problems. Jesus is the Christ. I love him. This is His church. 

The longest, hardest, most exhausting, year and a half of my life. 
The greatest, most amazing, life-changing, year and a half of my life. 

I wouldn't trade a single day.

"These were days NEVER to be forgotten"

For the last time... all my love, 
Sister Brinton