My Mission Blog!

Hey y'all!  Welcome to my mission blog!  I wanted to start my mission blog before I leave on my mission so that I can share the experiences I have in preparing to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints rather than just the experiences I have after I leave.  While I am gone, I will be able to write emails home every week, and my mom will post them here.

I'll start out by explaining my blog title "The White Fields of Peru."  Libby and I spent a long time trying to think of a good blog title, and this is the best we came up with.  It comes from Doctrine and Covenants section 4.  Verses 3-4 say, "Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work; For behold the field is white already to harvest; and lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul;"  

This scripture is all about missionary work!  When I was in 9th grade, my mom and I attended a mission prep class taught by Jack Christiansen.  I wasn't intentionally preparing to serve a mission at the time, but President Christiansen is an amazing teacher, and I loved going to class.  At the beginning of every class we recited section 4 of the Doctrine and Covenants, so this scripture became an important part of who I am and what I believe.  It gets me excited about missionary work, and reminds me that there are individuals waiting to hear the message of the Gospel-- it is up to me to share it with them.  I feel like it is speaking directly to me, since I definitely have desires to serve God.  

If I would have known all of the amazing experiences that would bring me to where I am today in serving a mission, I would have began this blog a long time ago.  I would have started it on October 6, 2012 when this journey all really began.  Since I didn't start it back then, I will copy journal entries instead from those days that impacted where I am now: waiting to serve the people of Peru!

Happy reading!