Life since the call: 1 month

Wow. I had heard plenty of things happened after putting your papers in; such as: boys come out of the woodwork to ask you out, Satan tries harder to tempt you, etc. Well, I was really looking forward to the former thing. haha Although I had been going on quite a few dates since Christmas break, I wasn't sure how the mission call would be able to top the multiple dates a week I was going on, but until I got my call, I had completely forgotten about the latter one.

And that's the only one that ended up happening...

My dating life was on fire until I put my mission papers. Literally, as soon as my papers were turned in, my steady stream of dates turned into a trickle--during a drought. AKA not much was happening there. Well whatever, it's not like I was going on dates every weekend before this semester...and the slower life/more time for myself has been nice I'll admit.

The hardest part was definitely the loneliness I've felt (not because I wasn't going on dates haha). Even in a group of people, I still felt that way. Satan knows me. He knows what has worked on me before, so what does he do? Attack with what has worked for him before. Satan is no respecter of peoples, races, cultures, or religions.

A couple days after receiving my call, life just started falling apart. People that were a part of my life, suddenly decided they didn't really want to be a part of it anymore. And then it just kept getting worse from there. Life had never seemed so dismal. I was hitting a low in school and just about everything else it seemed. I still was happy, but more often than I had been before I was sad; I was filled with feelings of inadequacy and loneliness that I'd never experienced like this before.

When I was hitting this low, I just cried and cried and finally just called out to God to help me have Faith.

And then life started getting better.

It was still hard and Satan was working hard, but for some reason I knew that as soon I went through the temple for myself that everything would be better. And I just held on to that.



..........4 MONTHS have now passed since I got my call.

I realized that I never finished this post. So I just wanted to finish my thoughts really briefly...

So, as my temple date approached (it was March 29th)  and I was doing things to prepare, life just got better and better. After finally going, there was just so much peace in my life. My perspective became broader; I was happier, and life indeed has been so much better.

I know there is power in the temple!