August 13, 2015 ~ Anna COMES HOME!

It is crazy it has been 18 months already! It went by so fast and so quickly at the same time. The anticipation of waiting at the bottom of the escalators to see Anna was killing everyone! She had quite the group to welcome her. The whole Utley side practically, Sister Thomas, the DeBry family and the Bergquist family were there. 

Here is the last blog post Anna EVER made while on her mission. 

Going home next week~Thanks for your love and support! Y'all are great!!! 

What a week! I literally cannot believe how fast time has gone by. But this has been great. This morning, I pulled out my journal from the very beginning of my mission and I took a little walk down memory lane. That was a precious moment. As I read my thoughts and worries from 18 months ago.... it's amazing to see that all my goals and hopes for my mission have come to be true. The coolest thing was to read about little me and see just how much I truly have changed. That's what it's all about. When Elder Holland visited our mission, he told us "You are God's investigators. As missionaries, you are literally His investigators" He continued to tell us that we need to keep commitments, and learn and grow just as we want our investigators to keep their commitments, and learn, and grow. And if we do that throughout the course of our missions, our lives will change just like our investigator's lives change. It made me so grateful for the miracle my mission has been in my life. I will literally never be the same! And my life will forever be different because I've served a mission!

Here are some pictures from December 2014 till she came home. 

Pictures from her Homecoming!