Well, it's finished. I've got one last night of proselyting
and then I begin the process that leads me to the land of never-ending
Preparation Days. This week, being as true to form as the mission can be, was
filled with appointments falling through. It actually feels great having this
week with no farewells, no ado, just work it until it's done. I tried to just
slip away into the background and I was glad that it wasn't announced in
sacrament meeting. It was a wonderfully uplifting and inspiring meeting. The
speakers spoke on choice and accountability, forgiveness, and repentance with
the meeting being finished with a powerful testimony of the Atonement given by
the last speaker.
We had interviews with President and Sister Bernhisel this
week, and everyone in our district found out their transfer news almost a week
early because of it. Every companionship (except the zone leaders of course)
will be training. The new district leader will be one of the Leland Elders. It
was an interesting district meeting that day because it didn't have that somber
feeling that the last district meeting of the transfer usually has. Maybe
because rather than going with the traditional "God Be With You Till We
Meet Again" I decided that we should sing "We Are All Enlisted"
as our closing hymn. It kept an energetic spirit in the meeting. We'll have
most of the district at transfer meeting, which will be quite fun.
In one of our lessons this week, we were teaching a brother
who hadn't been to church in a while. He spent a lot of the lesson telling us
how much he loved the church and how Joseph Smith was his hero. You could
imagine our surprise when we finished the lesson and to close his prayer he
said "Thank You Sir" and then started getting up. It caught all of us
off guard. That was surely a first for me.
I love North Carolina so much. There is nothing better than
the experiences I've had with the people down here and I will forever have a
love for the South and especially all of the wonderful Southerners. There has
been nothing better, however, than coming to know in a very real way that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God, the Savior of the world. I cannot express enough my
gratitude for my mission in helping me to gain that knowledge. I hope I can
continue to build on the things that I've learned out here because I know that
I'm not perfect yet (or even anywhere close). My mission has taught me how I
can work on that and especially how I can pattern my life on the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
The South will rise again.
Love,
Elder Perryman
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