Exciting!

K-so I am getting excited! I have picked new templates for both of my blogs, I have found free pictures from the net of places on my trip. So I have been able to add some things to my scrapbook blog...How much more fun can one person handle! This blogging thing can get addictive!
So I was writing to my aunt Cindy on facebook, explaining to her what I do at the hospital. And I decided to copy a part of it here. It helps to paint my feelings well. "It really is fun, and I love the patient care. At times it gets really stressful, but over all, a job that has touched my heart. Some of the most spiritual experiences in my life are taking care of the patients, and seeing all of their facades fall as they rely on me to help them out during what could very well be their lowest moment in their lives. And then when they pass on to the other side, a hollowed moment. I am truly blessed to have a job that brings things into perspective for me and help me remember what is important."
My Bishop has helped me to understand the love of Christ through actions of service. Through different experiences that I have had, whether being the giver or receiver of these acts, I have felt closer to my Savior than at any other moment in my life, except in the Temple. I think that when we see others through the eyes of Christ, we see their worth, and remember that they too are daughter/sons of God....at times I find that difficult to see. But when it happens, it is truly humbling.
I remember the night that I received my mission call to California Roseville Mission. I felt that the air had been knocked out of me. I was severly disappointed. I wanted to go foreign. I wanted to speak a different language, and none of my wishes had come true. As I knelt in prayer that night, pleading with my Heavenly Father for a change of heart, I had an experience that I will never forget...I sang "I’ll go where you want me to go, dear Lord, Over mountain or plain or sea; I’ll say what you want me to say, dear Lord; I’ll be what you want me to be." (Hymns, no. 270). I had a distinct impression that told me, "the people in California need you as much as any one across the ocean. They are my children, and I love them". I felt so humbled, and ungrateful at that moment. I asked for forgiveness. From then on I decided to study the area out so that I knew as much as I could about it. I am grateful for that experience, and I truly saw so many people from different cultures, languages, and religions. We taught Muslims, Paegans, Sieks, various Christian faiths, Messianic Jews, and Budhist. In fact, in one discussion Sis. Zielke and I taught an Egyptian Paegan, Catholic, and Athiest! What a diverse and fun mission!