Thanks Mom!

Mothers are somehow given an extra sense. They just seem to know exactly what you need to hear and exactly when you need to hear it. Now, without bias, my mom is the best there is. And at just the right time, she said just the right thing:

 "We know it would be so easy to give up and come home and be where you’re comfortable and secure.  But I commend you for pressing on—every day.  I know you get tired, frustrated, and feel homesick; but I also have read your emails that have taught me and strengthened my testimony.  I have seen you grow stronger, not only in your testimony; but through the trials and challenges that you face.  You keep coming out on top—as you forge on with faith every, every day. As I look at your missionary chart with all the little black dots that represent every day that you have been gone, I realize that they are not just trivial little dots.  They represent days of sacrifice and hard work. Days filled with time on your knees, and time in tears.  Days of frustration, loneliness, fear, and homesickness.  But also days of understanding and learning, days filled with faith, satisfaction, and even jubilation!  Those dots are sacred to me and every day I place one on the chart, I feel great  pride and incredible love."

Sure love you Mom!!