"What are your plans after high school?"

“What are your plans after high school?” If you had asked me that a year ago, I would’ve told you I was going to leave on a mission in September. I was a devout attendee of my stake’s mission prep, and connected everything I learned in seminary, church, and my scripture study to my mission. I would randomly think of my mission, dream of my mission, picture myself on a mission, and it gave me butterflies and even sometimes brought me to tears, because I was that excited to be on such a spiritual adventure, to introduce people to the Savior who I knew and loved, and to do God’s work. I began working on my mission papers in May. Graduation was approaching, which was something I’d always looked forward to, though it didn’t turn out exactly as I’d always imagined, seeing as I had E. coli for the two weeks prior, and was still feeling very ill, sitting in the Maverick Center in my cap and gown with the rest of my senior class. I survived high school though!! I was on top of ...