This is Not Goodbye

This is my last post before I leave to serve a mission in Asuncion Paraguay for a year and a half.  I will first go to the missionary training center in Buenos Aires, Argentina to learn Spanish until the beginning of November and then I will go to Paraguay.  But this is not goodbye, because I don't like final goodbyes.   And I am not dying or anything, just going on a mission.  But even if I were, I would not say any final deathbed goodbyes because that would be assuming that there was an end to that relationship.  And I believe that there no final goodbyes, no ends to relationships.  I believe in a gospel of infinity and eternity.

A leader of my church, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf said . . . .

"In light of what we know about our eternal destiny, is it any wonder that whenever we face the bitter endings of life, they seem unacceptable to us? There seems to be something inside of us that resists endings.

Why is this? Because we are made of the stuff of eternity. We are eternal beings, children of the Almighty God, whose name is Endless¹³ and who promises eternal blessings without number. Endings are not our destiny."

I am leaving to go share this glorious message of everlasting life and eternal happiness with others because I have seen how it has shaped and improved my life, and I want others to experience this same happiness.

I will see you all soon!

Love,

Sister Liza Jarman