Saying "Good-by" to some of my Favorite Investigators...and Friends!

Channing is scheduled to be baptized on October 3, 2010 by her husband, Jesse. When you are married in the temple...I will be there!!!

Jessica was my very first baptism. She came to say good-by and to introduce me to her new daughter, Makayla.

I love the Lopez family! All the kids were baptized and Christina is my very dear friend.

Saying good-by the the Salinas family was very hard (notice the tears). I love Esmerelda, Juan, Daisy and Brenda. Juan is preparing to serve a mission...he will be a wonderful missionary!

My final baptism was Maria Cuellar. She taught me about the powers of prayer and that the Lord truly does answer our prayers.

I love ALL those I was called to serve. You have been a great blessing to me. My life will never be the same because of YOU. Thank you!!!

I feel so blessed to have been called to serve a mission in McAllen Texas. I know this is where I needed to be for the past 18 months. I know that Jesus Christ is my Savior. I’ve always known that. I’ve always had faith in Him, but I have come to realize that He can play a bigger role in my life if I let Him. I’ve come to see answers to prayers and have recognized the biggest miracles that I could have ever imagined. I have also witnessed the smallest and simplest of miracles and these small miracles blow my mind even more.

I know that God loves me so much. I have felt of His unconditional love. I’m grateful that He has used me to help other people, that He loves me enough to humble me, to bring me down on my knees so I can repent, that He has guided me to those specific people that I needed to share my testimony with. I feel like the sons of Mosiah in just looking at all those people I have been able to teach and bring to baptism, and I do not feel like they are few at all, and I rejoice in all those souls because to me, I feel like they are many. They are great to me. They mean everything to me. Even if it was just one, I would still feel like there were many.

I know that this church is true...that it is not just a church but that it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That it really will change you if you let it. I am so very grateful for this and so very grateful for my Savior, Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice of the Atonement that I can be clean, and I am grateful for that because I am so far from being perfect. I have so many imperfections, but I am grateful that He chips away at those imperfections day by day and smoothes them out so I can be more like Him...so I can be more patient, loving, submissive, gentle and kind. My mission has meant everything to me, and though I am sad to leave, I am excited to go and be Krystal again...to be me, but my mission has meant so much and I am going to miss these blessings that you can only get as you serve the Lord full time. These blessings are some of the greatest tender mercies that I have seen in my life. I know that God loves His children because He loved them enough to send me here. I am grateful that I have been an answer to so many people’s prayers, that I have knocked on their doors at the time that they needed me the most, but not me, they have needed Him. I am grateful that I have been able to open my mouth and say the words that He would have me speak. I am grateful that I have been an instrument in His hands. Now that I know what that feels like, I will never be the same, there is no way. I know it is true, and there is no greater blessing in my life that I could have ever had than this experience...and it has changed me.