Day 48.

Today, I had the privilege to say goodbye to a good friend of mine who is leaving for his mission on Monday. Saying goodbye to people, especially someone who you consider close to you, is hard to do. We feel heartache for the one who is leaving us but we know that someday we will see them again. I wonder what it must have felt like for God to give us His son. When Jesus left the Heavens to come to earth I wonder what His father felt. It couldn't have been easy but He knew that Jesus was going to return to Him after He had saved all of mankind. Just like we have friends that leave their homes to serve a mission for the church and bring others unto Christ, God must have felt that way too, proud, joyous, happy, anxious. God must have felt just like we do when our missionaries leave us because Jesus was the greatest missionary of them all and He made His Father very proud just like our missionaries make us feel.