JOHN 10:10

"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." JOHN 10:10

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

On my mission I lived for writing weekly emails home. All week I would think of exactly what to say, then after nightly planning and before bed time I would write a little bit of the well meditated topic on my math-like grid paper because normal lined paper doesn't exist in Chile. I even re-taught myself to write in cursive through those email drafts and progressed to the point of it nearly being legible. I would write and re-write and then read and re-read some more.I guess I had nothing better to do during those times when I should have been writing in my journal.

I miss writing. I miss trying to be witty and spiritual and entertaining. I miss getting compliments on having written the "best missionary emails ever". Seriously though you guys, people said that to me. Although now with Hayley out her emails definitely trump mine, but what can you do? Unlike Hayley I wasn't as blessed as much with writing but rather in the looks department, so I guess it all evens out in the end. 

ANYWAY, whilst still on the mission, during some of those writing frenzies, I vowed to start a blog when I got home. I chose one of my favorite scriptures John 10:10 and even came up with some blog title ideas such as: "living life abundantly," "abundant living" and a bunch of other lame reworks of that very same concept. At some point I decided on "the abundant life". Now here I am, maybe a year later, following through with the missionary desire of my heart. A new blog. This one dedicated to bettering the world through the very moving experiences of my life along with my extreme cleverness.

As a missionary I wrote an email home every Monday. My final draft was all written, folded, and ready to go Sunday night so that no precious P-day time was ever wasted. I feel as if I will continue writing a weekly report Sunday nights. Now I won't be writing about street contacting, lack of baptisms, or sketchy meals; instead I will write about post-mission life, about being home, going to school, working, and trying to be the good Mormon I taught others to be. We'll see how it goes. Bare with me.

Here's to the abundant life.










Todo mi misión me encantaba escribir a mi familia cada semana. Toda la semana yo pensaría en lo que exactamente iba a decirles, luego, después de planeamiento cada noche, yo escribiría  un poco de lo que había planeado en el papel que es tan distinta ahí en Chile.  Yo escribiría y escribiría de nuevo y después leería y leería de nuevo. Supongo que no tenia nada mas importante que hacer en esos momentos cuando debiera haber escrito en mi diario.

Yo extraño escribir. Yo extraño  ser chistosa y espiritual y entretenido. Yo extraño escuchar de mi familia y amigos que yo había escrito “los mejores correos de todos los misioneros”. Pero realmente ustedes, personas me decían eso. Aunque ahora mi hermanita Hayley esta en la misión y sus correos a la familia son muchos mejores, pero yo, no como ella, no fui bendecida tanto para escribir pero mas para ser bonita, así que todo esta justa al final.

ANYWAY, cuando estaba en la misión, durante un momento de escribir, me prometí que iba a comenzar un blog cuando regresara de la misión. Yo escogí una de mis escrituras favoritas Juan 10:10 y en cuanto a este escritura pensé de muchos nombres que podría dar a mi blog. Me quedé con “la vida abundante de señorita walker”. Ahora aquí estoy, casi un ano después, por fin comenzando mi blog. Un blog dedicado a mejorar el mundo a través de mis experiencias increíbles y mi ingenio.

Como misionera yo escribía a la familia todos los lunes. Mi reviso final del correo siempre estaba escrito, doblado, y listo domingo por la noche así que no perdiera nada del tiempo precioso de mi día de preparación. Creo que voy a seguir escribiendo un reportaje los domingos por la noche. Ahora no voy a escribir sobre contactos en la calle, la falta de bautismos, ni comida rara sino voy a escribir de mi vida después de la misión, sobre estar en casa, ir a la escuela, trabajar, y tratar de ser la buena mormona que enseñé a los demás que deberían ser. Vamos a ver como me va. Sean pacientes.

Aquí vamos con la vida abundante. 

3 comments:

  1. Yay! You really are the best writer!

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  2. I love it. I have missed your missionary emails, and this is great. You are a great writer. Very cool.

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  3. Although you are a distant second to me, you are definitely better looking than Hayley.

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