This is not Anziano Nathan Eads' last post. It is his last post from Italy and his next post will come when he has returned home.
If your gone, well maybe you need to come home. There's an awful lot of breathing room, but I can hardly move . . . (Mathbox Twenty)
Okay, so here's a slighlty more serious email. Bear with me, it might be a long one.
Well, I honestly don't know what to think or feel right now. I'm kinda in the middle of a lot of emotions right now, but at the same time, my thoughts have never actually be clearer. I'm at peace, and honestly, feeling a little wise right now.
I'm sad about leaving, but I feel like it is time for me to go. I've done a really good work here and I'm content with what has happened. Overall, it's been fantastic.
I've always have seen trials in my life, but I've realized that those trials that I've had, they haven't been because I've been a bad person, or because I'm being punished, but these trials have come for one overall purpose. That purpose has been change.
I talked about that in my dying testimony. I talked about how these trials are the things that change us, and they are the things that put us through the refinier's fire and move us closer to our Savior.
The trials we encounter in this life, and the ones I've encountered in my mission have been the things that have made me more like my Savior, and what permit all of us to learn, to grow, to become better, and to become comfortable in the prescence of God.
The things that happen help us to find out who we are and who we can become. I'm more of the person I always thought I was. I'm quiet, thoughtful, wise (which is a huge surprise), and honestly, in some ways, I see that I've become the person I've always wanted to be.
The mission has been great, it's been something I would change for the world. I'm happy.
Love you guys again!
See you next week!
NaNa
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