I'm comin' home🎶I'm comin' home🎶 Tell the world I'm comin' homeee🎶
Well friends, this is it! I am headed back to my lovely Utah
in just two days!
This week has been surreal! It still doesn't really feel
real that in 2 days I am getting on a plane and will be seeing all you at
the end of an escalator! This year and a half has been magical. I have laughed,
I have cried, and I have laughed until I cried. I have made friends that will
last more than a lifetime. I have been at ultimate highs and ultimate
lows. But I would NEVER trade a single moment. I have come so deeply to
understand the healing and changing power of the Atonement. Change. Change.
Change. THIS is what I have learned the most of over the course of my whole
mission. Change is ALWAYS possible! I struggled so hard at the beginning
of my mission to forgive. I felt I could pick and choose who got the enabling
power of the Atonement. But I was SO wrong! Christ isn't just there for
some...He is there for EVERYONE. Every single person who has ever lived, Christ
came to save. But, it wasn't just that single moment, He saves us everyday. I
have been forever blessed and changed to see this first hand happen time and
time again here in the Canada Halifax Mission.
I saw this story this week and it
really touched me:
"I had a Church assignment
for three years and I taught religion at the county jail. Elder Holland came to
talk to us, and I’ll never forget what he said. He said, “If Christ were to
come tomorrow, we know the first place He would be is the temple, but we also
know the next place He would be is in a place like this.” There is hope and
there is opportunity for us. The Savior will literally save us. But we can help
be His hands. I think we need to do more like what Elder Holland talks about.
Be kinder, more sensitive to people’s needs, be more willing to accept them, be
more willing to help them. I think that’s what we need to do. While it takes an
entire village to raise a child, we believe it takes an entire community to
save one. And I think that’s the challenge to all of us—to be that one, to be
that person to reach out."
I think this is SO important! I
may be ending my missionary service, but I am NOT ending my church
service. I am going to change the world when I get back. one person at a
time ...so be ready (;
I cannot wait to just squeeze the
heck outta every single one of you!!! Thank you so much for going on this
journey with me. I have truly felt every prayer. I could not have done any of
this without you.
-Sister Hird (for the time
whaaaa)
Here are some pictures of my last
week!
p.s I died my hair and was going
to not send any pic so it was a surprise...but I want you to know who I am at
the airport (; Plus my funeral service was too good not to share
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| Goodbye to the Morphy's :,( |
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| We volunteer at the food bank and sister S made me jewelry out of some sweet potato roots... #realtionshipgoals hahah I am going to miss her!! |
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