ready or not here I go

Now don't get confused by my plaque. I will be serving an 18 month mission not a 2 and a half year mission. It was so fun to hold this today and see it hanging in the case that I have walked pasted for years and years.

 Two and a half years will be the space of time in which I haven't seen my sister.

Hermana Haley Frodsham will return from her mission in Nicaragua this coming October. 

Ready or not the time is here. I had my "final interview" with the stake president and come Tuesday at 7pm I will be a missionary. The church is true and I'm excited to join the army of missionaries bringing light and hope to the world.
Loves to you all,
soon to be
Hermana Frodsham

Farewell Fun

I spoke in church last Sunday on discipleship and was overwhelmed with the love and support from my family and friends. Thank you for coming, calling, texting, and snap-chating me. I feel so blessed to have so many incredible people in my life.

I have been given much. Where much is given, much is required. I'm excited to work hard and look forward to the next 18 months. But before then I have one busy week ahead of me before I report to the MTC June 4th.

Here are the links to the conference talks I used. If you have a few minutes they are a great read.

James E. Faust

Jeffrey R. Holland

Linda K. Burton

I didn't do well at taking pictures with everyone. If you have them, send them to me :)

A portion of my talk in which I shared a summary of my decision to serve a mission. This probably isn't what I ended up saying but you'll get the general idea:

In the General Women’s meeting Sister Burton asked the question: what does it mean to you to be a disciple of Jesus Christ?

That question is pretty easy for me to answer at this point in my life. When my told my sister Haley (who is currently serving a mission in Nicaragua) what my topic was she said this “Think about what it is going to mean to be a disciple of Him 24/7. There isn't a day for 18 months where you don’t wake up with the same purpose, find the lost sheep. Love the people.”

It wasn't really in my plan to serve a full-time mission. Even when they lowered the age in which girls could serve I still wasn't really sure that was something I was gonna do. A year ago as I finished up high school and watch some really close friends and my sister receive mission calls I kinda caught the wave. The idea of a full time mission felt more appealing to me than it did before but I didn't want to serve a mission because that is what my friends were doing. It took me a really long time to get answer.

I went away to the most incredible year of school at Utah State University and it was there that I grew up enough and strengthened my testimony to the point that I was able to receive an answer about serving a mission. I started my mission papers the very first week of school and worked on them until January. It was a pretty bumpy 5 months. I never got a big smack you in the face kind of answer. Instead it was gradual. I would little by little work on papers and I would feel good about it. Then I would doubt and pray and again feel good about it. And then before I knew it I was holding a white envelope with my name on it.

I receive my mission call in January 15^th and working on mission papers was just a warm up compared to the ups and downs of the last 128 days that I've had a call. I can’t count to the times I've asked my Father in Heaven if He is sure. What I've gained from the last almost 6 months with a mission call is that there are never unanswered prayers. Every time I kneeled in prayer in some way or another I got the same answer. There are a lot of people here though that don’t know it who delivered those answers. So I might be scared but I’m holding on with everything I have to the answer I got and am taking this road on the path of discipleship.

I know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true. I know that I have a Father in Heaven who loves me. I know that living the way my parents have taught me makes me happy and that is way I am going on a mission- Because being a disciple of Jesus Christ matters.