What's next?

Here is what I wrote as a comment to my blog over three and a half years ago, while I was still at BYU in the Masters of Linguistics program:

Mary Bonham said...

In reading my past post about my ASL story, I am reminded that this experience of going to BYU is also lead by my Heavenly Father. I really am not sure why I am going for a Master's degree, but I do feel God has a plan for me and this is part of it!

May 27, 2013 at 11:01 AM

My Master's degree is finished. It's been a year. My thesis is popular throughout the world. It has been downloaded over 4000 times in 41 countries. It is on the BYU scholar's archive top ten list and has been for a year.  I look back and read my feelings of wonder at WHY I was lead to get a Master's degree, and I stand all amazed. It makes me so happy that I continued through the degree, even though it was sooooo difficult. I knew the Lord was leading me, so I kept the faith and finished...finally. What a testimony to me that Heavenly Father was again at the helm of my life, steering me in the direction He wanted me to go.

I have gone back to interpreting. I feel, as the apostles of old, that "I have gone back to fishing." I love interpreting...that isn't a problem. It is a joy to be back in the interpreting world! In the back of my mind, though, I wonder...'What is next?"

One enjoyable thing I am doing is working several times a month on translation teams for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The LDS Church translates church-related materials into over a hundred languages. I work with American Sign Language, ASL. It is wonderful to be part of the work of spreading the gospel to all nations, kindreds, tongues and people!