Victoria returned home from her mission about a week and 1/2 ago. After being in Mexico for only one transfer, I'm truly amazed at how much she grew spiritually and in her Spanish. The MTC contributed to lot of that growth as well.
She had some amazing experiences that I feel like totally satisfy mission needs; however, some experiences led her to follow up through prayer at the suggestion of the Mission President to come home, at least for time, and take care of her health.
While she felt an extremely strong prompting to go on a mission, she felt just as strong a prompting to come home. She's continuing on her mission here as a service missionary and while it's been a little difficult navigating this completely new path, there's a lot of potential.
It's almost like the best of both worlds. She can still work with the full-time missionaries here, and believe me, they're all excited to work with her. She can also participate in any service opportunities, develop her own talents (like teaching dance and yoga), and work in the temple.
Her first Friday here, she attended Zone Conference with all the full-time missionries in the area and many different companionships from our area have reached out to her many times for help, including the Spanish-speaking missionaries with whom she helped with Spanish.
She can attend the Spanish Speaking Branch whenever she wants, Jason and I try to speak Spanish with her at lest once day, and next weekend she's going to the Spanish Christmas Devotional for all the Spanish speakers in our whole area (there's more than I thought!)
Her schedule still needs to be ironed out as there are so mnay avenues she can take and it's actually overwhelming, but with Thanksgiving this week, it might be til next week when things get figured out.
We're so happy to have her here for the holidays and for however long she wants to be. If she wants to go back to Mexico and feels ready, she can. She could also be reasasigned somehwere else if she waants to go back out full-time. It's really all up to her.
We'll enjoy her for as long as it lasts!
(Erik was sick when she returned home, but since his birthday is today, we'll get some good pics of them together. )
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