Called To Serve

Dear Elder Howell,

You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the New Jersey Morristown Mission. You should report to the Mexico Missionary Training center on Wednesday, March 4, 2015. You will prepare to preach the gospel in the Spanish language.

I've reached that point in my life where I now have the privilege to serve The Lord for two years of my life!! I am beyond excited. There will be no other time in my life where I am able to dedicate 100% of my time, ALL the time, to this gospel. It really is a blessing.

If someone had told me a few years ago that I would be serving my mission in New Jersey speaking Spanish, I'm not going to lie, I think I would be pretty disappointed. However, I can't even begin to describe the immense joy and gratitude I felt as I read that first line of my call. "You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints," and that's when I knew that I would be completely fine with wherever I was called to. 

I am honored to be called to serve the people of New Jersey, and I can't imagine I could have been happier with anywhere else I could have been called. The church is true. I testify to you through this run-of-the-mill blog that Jesus Christ lives, and that Joseph Smith saw Him and The Father in a vision in 1820. This is fact. And now I get to go tell everybody the joyous news: "God loves you! You are His child." 

I am so excited to serve. 

"For the fullness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved." (1 Nephi 6:4)