Week #50 Emotions Overflowing

This week has absolutely just flown by!  It has been filled with flowing emotions for me.  Elder Soulier went home on Monday.  Elder Miller and Elder Cabrera are going home this coming Monday.  I complete a year in Chile today.  It is really a surreal moment for me.  Three of my four comps are going home right now.  I have an arsenal of feelings for all of them, but more than anything...I am just so thankful humbled by the opportunity I have had to serve with each and every one of them.  I have learned so much about my Heavenly Father and myself from each one of them.  They have all taught me very distinct things.  I cannot wait to see the miracles that they are a part of in their lives.  :)

Having a year in the mission now is very weird.  I feel that I have been here for four months..that each sector has been a month, but here I am...one year.  But, I also feel that I have come a very long way.  I have progressed in my personal conversion in so many ways I could never even of thought of.  I have come to a better understanding of who my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are and what they expect from me.  I understand their role in my life...and what I must do so that their efforts are not in vain.  I am very grateful for the opportunity that I have had to serve the Chilean people.  To serve with them, to rejoice with them, to understand them,  and most of all to love them.  

I am grateful to my Heavenly Father for my mission call.  I have come to the realization that there IS NO OTHER MISSION I COULD HAVE BEEN CALLED TO!.  This mission is literally perfect for me.  I can`t imagine this time anywhere else.  I still have a long way to go, but I`m well on my way to being the man Heavenly Father wants and expects me to be.  I find happiness in the scriptures, I find comfort in the scriptures, and I find answers to all of life's problems in the scriptures.   I so love assisting others in getting to know Heavenly Father better and progressing spiritually, mentally and seeing them happy through the  gospel of Jesus Christ.  

I really am at a loss for words.  Words can`t describe my feelings.

I am a disciple of Christ.  I am called to preach repentance unto the world.  I pray that my Heavenly Father would give me the strength to always remain humbly.  And to remain proud of this fact, to maintain the vibrance to share it with courage, the diligence to stay loyal to this call for the rest of my life, the optomism to put my faith in His will always in my life first, and the faith to doubt my doubts before I doubt the miracles of my God.  

I love the gospel of Jesus Christ.  I love our God.  I find happiness in things of righteousness.  This is who I am. I pray that each of you could come to desire this state of serenity as well and that you would take appropriate actions to achieve it.  This is my humble prayer, in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Con Amor,

Elder Joseph Nathaniel Jackson