June 22, 2011

Dearest Family in the whole wide world....AKA...MY FAMILY!!!

From the title you can understand that I am trying to endure to the end. I don´t think that it has actually hit me yet that I am ending the mission, this thing that I have looked forward to all of my life and now I am done. Wow, I just can´t believe it.

This scripture in the subject title was shared by President Watkins in a zone leader council a few months ago and is very interesting. Moroni did not think that he was going to live more but the Lord had more prepared for him to do. Moroni kept going forward and wrote some of the most inspiring and impressive chapters of the Book of Mormon, the sacrament prayers, faith, hope and charity, baptism of children, and the famous promise that has led, changed, and touched millions of lives, including mine.

I am excited to see you too, and it will be sad and hard leaving all of this paradise here in Spain. I think and believe that the mission is the closest you can get to the Celestial Kingdom. I love missionary work and hope and plan to do that throughout my life. That makes this transition easier, knowing that I can keep doing and participating in this sacred work, forever, for the rest of my life. How exciting! Once a missionary, always a missionary.

So anyway, it will be great to see you soon. I love you and I know that I have bugged you a bunch already, but just to make sure that you don´t forget to bring those multi vitamins that Elder Cerro asked for. It was his birthday the 21 of June, this last Tuesday and I think that it would be great to be able to give him that as a present for his birthday, even if he has to pay for them. He would really enjoy that. I love you very much and travel safely. Don´t forget to buckle up!!!

Love,

your favorite missionary...Élder Driggs