Durango Week Twenty Three

Hello, friends!! This week has been a week!!!!!! It was the final week of the transfer and we found out that I will be LEAVING Durango!! I'm headed to Farmington 2nd Ward with Sister Darlington (who was also trained by Sister Withers!!). It has been a great final week in Durango, CO. I am sure gonna miss this place, but I'm excited for Farmington. I feel like in Bloomfield I adjusted to missionary life, but in Durango I became a missionary. I'm excited to see what Farmington brings because I know God knows exactly what I need 100% of the time!!

This week was President and Sister Adams' last and that's pretty sad/strange to think about. But the New Mexico Farmington mission is starting a whole new chapter and I couldn't be more excited! President asked us to email him our testimonies this week so since I don't have much more to say about the events of the week, I thought I'd send it to you too:

The past 10 months have been a roller coaster. An absolute roller coaster. But it's been the greatest roller coaster I could have asked for. I decided to serve a mission because I love the Lord and His children and wanted to serve them, but I never could have imagined what I would get in return. I thought I had a pretty strong testimony when I came out, but it has grown exponentially, especially the past 3 transfers. I've had people ask me some really good questions about my faith that I've studied and pondered and now feel even more sure about. That's the amazing thing about this gospel and this Church. It's all TRUE. And truth cannot be disproved. The more I study the Bible, the more I know that the things I have been taught ever since I was a little girl are absolutely true. I know that the Bible is the word of God and I know the Book of Mormon is its perfect partner. I know God speaks to His children today and Jesus Christ leads His church through a living prophet. I know that the heavens have not closed and the day of miracles has not ceased. I see that more and more clearly each day.

But the most important thing that I know is that Jesus Christ lives. I know that He stands victorious over death, sin, heartache, pain, hopelessness, despair, and every other trial we face in this life. He is victorious. "He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more death." (Mosiah 16:9). I know He is the Light and that even in my darkest hour, He can guide me safely through if I just trust in Him. Nothing is more precious to me than my testimony that Christ is my Savior and that I  am "encircled about eternally in the arms of His love" (2 Nephi 1:15). There is no better place to be in the world than wherever He sends me because I know He will be there with me.

Farmington, here I come!!

Lots and lots of love,
Sister Bohman


Great things to read:
- "Precious Gifts from God" by President M. Russel Ballard
- "It's All About the People" by Bishop Gerald Causse