Co že? (What?) --The Hardest Day of my Mission -- 13 March 2017

Ahoj,

Let's just start out with, "I am so thankful."  Like my heart is overflowing with

"The Last Supper"

happiness. I have had the best mission for me. If I didn't trust Heavenly Father before the mission, I trust him 100 percent now. He is so wise, so all-knowing. I feel like He knew exactly what and who I needed.  

Some of the missionaries ask what is like having to go.  I say "Like torture." Because you are like so torn in between two worlds, two peoples, two lifestyles. I think I will be able to say this Wednesday will be the hardest day of my mission. 

But on the other hand, it was so so so wonderful looking back on the setting apart blessing I received and to see every blessing fulfilled. I just couldn't help but cry realizing how merciful God has been to me. I truly felt like D & C 84:88 has been what I have felt on the mission.

And whoso receiveth you, there I will be also, 

for I will go before your face. 

I will be on your right hand and on your left, 

and my Spirit shall be in your ¨

hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.

I have witnessed so many miracles I could never ever deny the existence of God. I know He is there. I know He just waits till we let Him take control and that is when we start to see success, that is when we feel that pure joy, and that is when you understand the great and beautiful plan of our loving Father in Heaven.

This past week my sweet Sestra Peterson and I were able to travel with Sestra Kunčikova to Prague to get here Patriarchal Blessing. She is sooo darling. She is 67 and still rides her bike everywhere and seriously and been a huge source of my happiness in Pardubice. She told us not too long ago that we needed to come over and she had a question to ask. She said, "I have been praying like I do every day, but I need to receive my Patriarchal blessing, and I need to do it now and with you two. So we got permission to travel to Prague. We didn't know if we would be able to listen or not, but she wanted us in the room. But she said she did that so we can be witnesses here on this earth and for the eternities, for the blessings she received.  I can honestly say it was the most beautiful blessing I have ever heard. Such a bright future she has ahead of her. So many blessings I didn't even know would be possible. I truly realized how merciful and patient God is for his children and how eternal and wide is His view. Wow. It was such a source of hope and brightness for me and my view on these people. Sestra Kunčikova told us after that she has been a member for 21 years and she has been waiting 21 years to receive her blessing so that we could be there. I thought it was interesting that Sestra Peterson and I were born 21 years ago. I am just so so beyond grateful that everything else in the last 21 years has allowed me to serve to be here, where I needed to be. 

I know that our Redeemer lives and that is how I feel God's great love for everyone. Jesus Christ did something that we could never do for ourselves. I know change is a possible thing. I think back to Tim Brown and Kiki. They are so different. Even I truly feel like a totally different person. I know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is real; it works; and it is made specifically for us. It's the connecting factor to God, family, friends, nature, anything. It has been the utmost honor wearing Christ's name physically on my heart. And I know it will always be there spiritually.

I am so thankful I can be a missionary forever and feel the spirit forever like my mom wrote me today. I feel like this last month I have already received more revelation for investigators in the future. Wow! I just love everyone. My dad said my heart can stretch enough to hold that love for the people here and everyone who has been a part of my life before that. 

I guess I will see you soon. I can't even believe it, and I am so excited (:

-- 

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself...

S Láskou,

Sestra Baxter

Sestra Baxter returns home from her mission 

Thursday, March 16, 2017.

Her homecoming will be at the Paradise 4th Ward Chapel,in Paradise, Utah 

on March 26, 2017 at 11:00 am.