New Mission Status

Wow, life is crazy these days. People I guess are realizing now that the world is soon coming to an end. Obviously it won't be December 21, 2012. There are many reasons why that theory is wrong, but that is a story for another day.
I will one day be going on a Mission for my church. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is pretty soon, I am down to less then a year and a half when I am 19 (Mission Age). So some things I do to try and get ready for my mission are; Read the Book of Mormon, go to church weekly, go to the Temple when I feel I am worthy enough, and last but not least I go out with the Missionaries who are in my stake now quite often and help them teach lessons!
Something new about the mission they are in now is though, exactly one week from today it will be totally different. I among a couple other thousand people will be apart of a new mission, but not any mission. The Smallest mission for the LDS church in the world! Pretty cool huh? It will consist of Murray, Midvale, and... Taylorsville? I can't remember the third city but I do know it is Murray and Midvale for sure! Here is the crazy thing, we go from having two missionaries in my stake to six! Ah! That is weird! I didn't think we had that many baptisms for that to happen! Apparently I was wrong, and we do, but now it's time for the Active members to take part of the Mission. We can't just sit here and waste the Missionaries time and let them come and have no one to teach. "Boy, mom the mission is great! I just sit here and study the Book of Mormon, because we have absolutely NO one to teach!" No! That will not happen, I am going to step up and try and be a better missionary myself! There are some people in my ward who are not members/ less active members. Well I have started my mission today! I am planning on asking one of my fellow priesthood companions to come with me to his best friends house and invite him to come to church on Sunday! Hopefully he will say yes! Then there is a friendly old couple across the street from me who I believe are baptist, they are so nice! The man is an author well he wrote one book at least, and we got it for Christmas a couple years back. Apparently it is quite hard to read my mom says. So, I have decided to  take on the challenge today (even though I am not big on reading) and I am going to read this book in the next month or so, so that sometime I can bring it up and strike a conversation! Maybe get into a little bit of religion talk? Who knows. I am just excited to start and help the work of the Lord.

I took this picture of the temple last year for Mother's Day.