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The Best Day In My Life

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January 18th was one of the best days of my life. It was the day that I decided to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was the day that I decided to change and become that person that my Heavenly Father wanted me to be. It was the time where I would be facing the real test of opposition in my life and worldly life. As the months went by, things turned out to be great! I had the opportunity to serve in The Church and in my community but as the year came to an end, my year mark as a member of The Lord 's Church drew closer. I was getting worried because I was always told by my leaders that I should think of the opportunity that I had to serve a mission. It wasn 't something that I ever thought of doing because I always felt …show more content…

I spent 6 weeks learning the language but at the same time I had lots of struggles . I spent 6 weeks learning the language but at the same time I had lots of struggles to learn the language but, I went out there with confidence that all will be okay because I had a promise from the lord. Twelve weeks into my mission I started to have problems due to a birth defect that I have I was born with a deformed leg which had me unable to pros light full time for a time. Then the worst came when I was told that the best option that I had was to was to have surgery to fix the problem or go home to recover and come back out later. At that moment I felt hopeless and felt like I was a failure to the lord and my family but I pressed forward and endured the trail I always said to myself that ' 'The lord qualify those whom he calls"and I knew that he qualified me because he called me to this work.

As my time went by I had the opportunity to serve with other missionaries all over the mission as I was recovering. Then the option was made to change my mission and that I needed to be in an area where missionaries were able to drive a car. I was sad to leave but I left with a joyful heart because I got to serve the Dominican people that I got to serve them for the period of 14 months. My new call assignment was to serve in the Trinidad Port-of-Spain mission for the last ten months of my mission. I arrived on the 3 of August 2016 to my new

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