See You Tomorrow Fam!

Hna Showalter coming to you live with one sad/happy email.

It was the best week ever (it always is as a missionary) but especially so because Viviana got baptized!! She was so so happy to follow her Savior and the spirit was so strong at her baptism. When she got the gift of the holy ghost she came back down and was like "I feel warm from my head to my toes. I cant describe it!" We had a lesson last night with her and the elders and her brother (who came and wants to get baptized now!) and she is going to work towards the temple. We also got to see former invs of mine and we now have a standing invitation to visit Chihuahua Mexico. They said they would be baptized too but just need a little more time. I love Eden and Jesus. Basically it was the perfect way to close my time as a missionary.

This week was filled with a lot of miracles. We were able to find 3 new people to teach and see a lot of progress with those we were teaching. It was really cool to see the Lord bless us for our service.

We got to go to the temple with our mission president and his wife and all the other (18!) departing missionaries. I've never been is such a full session but it was really cool to have that time to just reflect on the service that I have given. We also had departing interviews with our mission president and man I needed them. Sometimes I just feel like there was always more I could of done, more I could of given or said. I told President Wheeler this and he just looked at me and said " Sister Showalter, I cannot wait to stand before the Lord and tell Him about what an incredible mission you have served. You have been a rock for me here." I definitely cried a little bit at that.

But if I have learned anything on my mission it is that we can never do enough. We aren't perfect (like duh sis Showalter only took you 21 years to figure that out) But that is why we have a Savior. His grace is sufficient. His grace makes us strong and raises us above our weaknesses.

The greatest thing I have come to know on my mission is my Savior. He has been my rock. I have loved being a missionary because everyday I got to testify of Him. He is the light and life of this world that is often times filled with darkness. I thought coming on a mission would repay some of that debt but if anything my debt is even greater.

This is my second last day as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is my second last day wearing His name on my tag. But I will always carry His name over my heart. I am not who I was when I got on the first plane to Mexico City. If I had known then what I know now I would have ran to that plane as fast as I could. I am not who I was because my Savior intended for me to be even more.

This is the last invitation and promise I will leave with you all.

"Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God." Moroni 10:32

I know my Savior lives.

To the Moon and Back

Hermana Showalter

lots of pics of my week