"How do you prepare to leave a place and a people that you have loved with all your heart?  In a way, you don't - you just keep working and loving and helping in every way possible, and when the plane arrives, you get on and go.  I suppose it's a little like leaving this life.  You love and work and help as much as you can for as long as you can and then you leave." - Elder John Groberg

So first off, no, I can't believe it. It still isn't hitting home.  I had my final interview with President yesterday, and we talked for a good while.  He spoke of college of marriage and of life itself. We talked of temple attendance and the importance of it.  We talked of many things, and at the end he expressed his love for me and the desire he had to always be involved in my life. I love that man. 

I look forward to drinking milk and opening presents, but first comes dinner.  I'm going to assume that you don't want me to spoil the secret, so I won't until I get home. It's really weird to be writing my last email. I'm going to print off the talk and study it and seek for inspiration. I hope that I can give my homecoming talk well. It will be weird to talk in English. but I'll do the best I can, and hope the Lord will use me as an instrument. I love this work. 

By the way, I do still know your phone numbers. It's ingrained in my brain and it will be hard to forget, so you aren't allowed to ever change your cell phone number.  I wont miss any planes, don't worry. With 2 hour layovers you would have to try to miss your flight, so know worries about missing flights, and I'll call you asap. 

I'll be sure to leave most of my clothes here for those who need them, no worries.  I have some members running around and finding souvenirs, so yeah I hope I'll have enough to fill my bags. Yep, I hope you like what I got you.

So, here we are at the end of 2 years.  I have learned a lot. I love this work and I look forward to applying in my life all the things that I've learned. I love this work and I really am happy for all that I have been able to learn. I love this work. 

          

I love that quote from Elder Groberg, cause it really describes my feelings.  There really is no way to prepare for it.  I hope that one day Kaylee will receive this opportunity as well. I love this work and I love this church and I want to give more. I never want to stop serving the Lord. I want to be on the Lord's errand. I want the Lord to know that if he needs an errand run, Tyler Brown is there to run it. I want to be his servant forever. I hope to do it.

I know that this church is true. I know that Christ is my Savior and that the atonement, which he performed, could only be performed by Him. As it says in There is a Green Hill Far Away, "There was no other good enough to pay the price of sin. He only could unlock the gate of heaven and let us in." I know that Christ has given us the opportunity to accept His grace through the church that was restored by Christ through Joseph Smith. I know that he was and is a prophet of God and that Thomas S. Monson is God's prophet in these days. I know that this work, to which I have given the last 2 years of my life, is God's work and I know that He is guiding and directing it. I want to give more and I will give more. I love you and am grateful for goodly parents that God has given me. I know that God knows and loves each of us individually and that in and through Christ our Savior we can return to live with Him again. 

Love, Elder Brown (soon to be Brother Brown)