Monday, August 31, 2009

It's official...!

So as alot of you know I was thinking of going on a mission, or in other words I wouldn't go on a mission but I got the very distinct impression to go on a mission back in July. Well basically I figured out what happened, back in July I got the very distinct impression to go on a mission. And after a few days I got all confused about it for a month or so and anyways kind of what it was was that I was previously planning to buy Marianne's car from her so that she could go and not have it sitting around our parents house. Well the thing is that it was like the perfect situation because it was going to be a really good deal for a car and I would buy it right after I graudated and everything. So anyways I ended up telling her that I wasn't going to buy it anymore and so she was going to give it to someone else and the thing was that she was going to wait though until I decided that I wasn't really going to buy it. (and really go on a mission) So psychologically I really wanted to buy the car and not go on a mission, even though I didn't really realize that this was the case. (yeah that sounds wierd but sometimes that happens you do want to do something in the back of your head but you haven't figured that part out yet) So anyways, I was over at Janae and Richards like a week and a half ago and they asked me if I was still going to buy the car? since they want to buy it if I don't because their car just recently broke down. And at first I said that I didn't know and then after a little bit it suddenly came to me that I really don't need that car and they really do need it alot more since it's edging on fall/winter in Cache Valley and they can't just bike around with little Jaylee in the ice and snow. So I went back and told them to buy the car because I can keep riding the bus if I needed too. Well, as it turns out the very next day I was on facebook and my nice friend Jessio wrote to me and was quoting these scriptures and all of this relating to going on a mission and then it was also the Oquirrah Mountain temple dedication that weekend and guess what once I forgot the car it was very easy to make a decision. Or in other words I wasn't confused anymore and I had the very distinct impression to go on a mission again and it hasn't left since then. So I am going to start filling out mission papers this week because just so you all know I have another story for you all.

Back in the day when I was attempting to move off of Darwin Ave I got the very distinct impression to move to Anderson. So I went and as things turned out I was in a freshmen type ward and I really didn't like it all that much, but I did have some cool roommates and so it was okay. But I did wonder more then once why I got the very distinct impression to move to Anderson when I was how old? So anyways, Holly my roommate from Anderson and I decided to stay roommates this year, but we also decided to invite a girl we met named Julia (she lived on Darwin last year we just randomly met her at a party). So as of right now we are all roommates, and guess what? Julia for the last year has been in a graduate program that she does not like at all, but she's just staying in it because she doesn't know what else to do. Actually that was as of last week, so Holly (the one I met in Anderson) started talking to her about how she's doing pre-med and all of that and very quickly Julia had decided in just a few days to drop her program and do pre-med. As of last week she completely dropped the graduate program and got into all these biology classes a week late. And now she is going to finish this semester and move back to Provo and go to BYU with her brother, which is where she should have been doing all along except that her graduate program was only at USU. (the only University in Utah that had the graduate program anyways, it's probably at other Universities out of Utah) So anyways the moral of the story is that if I had not followed the instinct impression to move to Anderson and I'd stayed over by Darwin I would never have met Holly. I would have met Julia but not Holly and to this very day Julia would still be in that program she didn't like, since the only reason why she dropped it was because she didn't know much about the medicine programs and it was because of Holly that she found out who the advisors were and pretty much just got someone to convince her to drop the graduate program even if she'd already been in it for a year. So the moral of the story is that due to this experience I will never ever again ignore a very distinct prompting to do something. Which means that I am going on a mission even if I'm how old? Because I will never ever ignore very distinct promptings again, especially in this case where I've had the same very distinct impression to go on a mission several times.

2 comments:

Eric and Caralee said...

I can certainly relate, if I had done things the way I wanted I would have never met Eric!

Jessio said...

YAY!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so proud of you, Jeanne! You're amazing! I've learned that lesson for myself over and over throughout my life. When the Spirit speaks, you've just GOT to listen!