Colby's 2025 Year Recap

Colby's 2025 year recap (requested by mom for our Christmas email 😘) 💙...

This year has been nuts, it passed by so quick but also an insane amount of things have happened in the past 12 months. I started off the year halfway through my senior year, and the only things that I cared about at that point was the state of BYU sports and Rams football, the gym, the record of my fantasy football team, my friends, sports, and more sports. We went to Costa Rica with my parents and grandparents to visit Papa's mission, a senior trip to Moab with the boys, visited my dad's mission in California with my dad and Tate, and a Lake Powell trip with my uncle Chris and aunt Chaleh's family. Got my mission call to El Salvador, graduated from high school, got into BYU, and went off to the Mexico MTC for a month. Learned Spanish and got sent off to El Salvador to the city of Juayua and spent 4 and a half months there with a Peruvian and Dominican. Then this December I got transferred to Nahuizalco with a Guatemalan. This year I've seen the hand of the Lord change lives, and more than anyone's, my own. I have been converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ, changed by His Atonement, motivated by His infinite love and mercy, and I invite each of you to "seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written" (Ether 12:41), and I promise you will not regret it.

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