I'll Be Gone in Obregon

This is a blog of Allie Rawlings on her mission to Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. This is Allie's farewell talk she gave in church on November 26, 2017 prior to leaving for the Mexico Missionary Training Center on November 28, 2017. As many of you know, I’m speaking today because I leave for Mexico in two days and like thousands of other young adults, have put off schooling and other opportunities to spend the next eighteen months as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly shortened to the LDS church or nicknamed the Mormons. As an LDS missionary, it will be my great blessing to share the good news of the gospel and to teach anyone who will listen about the principles and doctrines that have brought me so much joy and happiness in my own life. But, if you look at this as a more general picture, that’s not why I’m speaking today. I’m speaking today because I decided a long time ago that I wanted to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, that I want...