Isaiah 2:2, Top of the Mountains

If there was a scripture I could use to sum up my mission, it would be Isaiah 2:2-3

2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, when the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

In one district council recently, my district leader shared this scripture. We talked about how accurate we found it was. Having served in Utah, or as the scripture says, the "top of the mountains," I can say that all nations truly do flow here. I have talked to people from Iraq, South Sudan, Turkey, Guyana, Canada, Brazil and all parts of Europe. I have taught people from Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, El Salvador, Uruguay and Paraguay. I have baptized people from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. I have seen that they come here, whether they know it or not, to learn more from the Lord and to be taught in his way. 

I love my mission. I love Utah, even if I didn't before my mission. I'm grateful for the opportunity I have had to see the hand of the Lord so present in this work. I am grateful for the new creature I have become because of my mission, and if you are thinking of serving a mission, do it! You will never get an opportunity like this for the rest of your existence. I love Jesus Christ, and am grateful that he could take me from where I was to where I am now, and I share all of this in his name. Amen.

- Elder Seth Jardine, Glens Falls Ward, Utah Salt Lake City West Mission