For A Missionary

Blair Jordan Canfield,

I want you to know that I am proud of you. You will do great things. You will open spiritual doors to people who have been locked away for ages. You will open your heart and give your all and be the best you can possibly be. I am so glad you decided to serve the lord. You made a good choice.

You are intelligent, caring, inspiring, ready, courageous, and without a doubt, loving. Remember to always give of yourself to others. Christ did not create us to gain & not give. He gave us heart that we might gain strength, earn wisdom, and expand our knowledge, to our fellow brothers and sisters. So that one day, we might all return to him. You can't take your material objects with you to heaven. But you most surely can take your knowledge. LEARN do not hold back, when you teach others you teach yourself. All those years of Sunday school teachers and sacrament talks, when they say the talk was meant more for them then us, they meant it. Of course the people you teach will learn, but it takes time to gain a testimony so solid it will not break. You will continue to build that testimony your entire life. But this is a chance to have it grow expansively.

I know that this gospel is true. It gets me through every single day. I know that Joseph Smith saw God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. That he restored this church and translated the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is true. I have a testimony of that, eternal families, genealogy, and the temple.

Shelby Lou DeLong