After you have received your mission call you write a letter to the first presidency. In my letter I vividly remember promising to stay out 18 months. When I wrote that line "I will and promise to serve the lord the full 18 months" I felt the spirit overwhelm me. I knew it was right.
But I didn't, I couldn't keep my promise. I had broken a promise that I had made to myself, my stake president, and the first presidency. I had felt the spirit so strongly while writing the letter and when I was to go home early. These two events seem to conflict but I was sure with both of them.
So why then did I feel the spirit so strongly in two conflicting instances? I think that 18 months was a completed mission to me then. When I was writing the letter I was promising to complete my mission until the end. And I did, I completed it. It was just not 18 months as I had assumed completion meant.
Why am I telling you this? God keeps his promises and allows us to keep ours. And to illustrate that promptings are not always what we think
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