7/20/15. Last email.

Hello family and friends!

  At every beginning to a new transfer my wonderful mission mom would
greet us all by saying, "Today is the first day of the rest of your
mission!" She would encourage us to arise and be great, to stand tall,
to step into the light with confidence and to make this transfer the
best transfer ever. Today as I send my last email as a missionary and
try to write out my emotions and feelings I want to take the advice
from Sister Alba and be the best that I can be today, tomorrow and for
the rest of my life. I know that if Sister Alba could give me any kind
of advice today she would hug me tight and tell me, Hermana Hamblin,
today is the first day of the rest of your life.

 I am so grateful for my mission. I am grateful to my Uncle Scott who
strongly encouraged me to serve. For my sister Mandy and my brother
Rex and their examples of missionary service and their letters home
that were full of positive, spiritual uplifting experiences. I am
grateful for my wonderful mission parents, the Alba's. I love them so
much and am so grateful for the way that they pushed me and followed
promptings as they sat through transfer doctrine week praying for me
and my new areas and new companions. I am grateful for the interview
sessions that I had with them and for their patience, encouragement
and love. I love them and I will always have respect for them and look
up to them. I am so grateful for my mom and dad. For their faithful
prayers on my behalf. I have felt their love and faith in me as they
have written me week after week emails, letters and all. I am grateful
for my sweet trainer, Hermana Thompson. She is a saint. She paved the
path for me and for my new life as a missionary.

 My mission has been a stepping stone for me to better access the
Atonement. I have placed my life into the hands of my Heavenly Father
and he has shaped me, refined me and molded me. It has been hard and I
know that he isn't done with me yet, but now I am ready to take with
me the things that I have learned and apply that to life outside of
the CASRM. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father allows his imperfect
children to do this wonderful work. He lives! I have been blessed to
shout that message to the world for 18 full months of my life :)

3 Nephi 5:13

I love you all.Thank you for everything!

Hermana Hamblin




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