Today my dear, dear friend Lauren Claspell enters the MTC and starts her Anchorage, Alaska mission!
I am so very excited for her! I know that she will have a great experience on her mission and will love it so much. I also know that she will be an amazing missionary. She is so sweet and kind and genuine and her testimony and love for the gospel shine through her constantly. I know that she will be able to touch a lot of hearts up there in Alaska.
I am a bit sad that she is leaving and is not up here in Rexburg, Idaho to room with me again this semester. But once I put these selfish thoughts away, I know that she is going where she is supposed to be and doing what is right for her. I admire her courage to leave her friends and family and her life here to give a year and a half to the Lord as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
So good luck to you Sister Claspell! You'll be great and we will be thinking of you and missing you constantly!
