ONE YEAR COMPLETED!!! WOOT! WOOT!

Hello EVERYONE! Let's start this celebration email off right and say HAPPY ONE YEAR MARK ELDER MORTENSEN! One year ago today I gave my Farewell Talk and was Set Apart as a full time Missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! What a ride this past year has been! The absolute joy I have felt as I've worn my mission name tag and served here in the Missouri Independence Mission.The incredible companions I've had and the people I've met and taught and the hard work and challenges that I've gone through. Whew! So much growth and so much goodness this past year! Tomorrow it is officially ONE YEAR that I started Home MTC. My life continues to be molded and shaped by my mission experiences and I know those will last a lifetime. This past week we had transfers and Elder Stevens completed his mission and he's back home in Idaho. My new companion, Elder Davis, is in quarantine in his last area, so President Ames had me take home the companion replacing...