my decision to serve a full-time mission

I have been called to serve in the California Anaheim mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I am to report to the Missionary Training Center on April 10th, exactly 2 weeks before the end of the Winter Semester at BYU. On Monday my Bishop approached me about my decision to try and finish the semester early and informed me that I could extend my call six weeks to finish out the semester and spend some time with my family before leaving. It surprised me how much I felt that he was implying that maybe that was something I should do. I called my dad and told him how conflicted I was because I still didn’t know if most of my professors would even let me take the finals early, one had already said no, and I was trying to decide if it was worth it to move my report date back although I felt really confident in finishing out a semester before my mission. I was pretty discouraged. My dad simply told me that moving my date back was something to seriously consider and look into. Honestly, I couldn’t understand why I would feel so good about putting my availability dade to lave on my mission earlier when submitting my papers to later feel so confused and stressed-out about it now. It didn’t even hit me until after I had received my call that maybe my professors wouldn’t let me take my finals early. Why would the leaders of the church feel inspired to put my mission date on April 10th while at the same time so many people were informing me about pushing my date back. I knew that God had a plan and that everything was going to somehow work out but it currently wasn’t when I had felt so good about my decision. Then in my New Testament class we read Acts 1:7 which explains that it is not for us to know the timing of things, God knows the reason and timing behind all things. My professor explained that this scripture was an answer from the Lord about questions of timing.  I had literally been sitting though that whole lecture worrying about my other professors and what I was going to do. That scripture brought me so much peace knowing that right now, I don’t understand why I am supposed to go to California on April 10th, but I was called to serve a mission on April 10th so I am going to work as hard as I possibly can to get to the MTC on that date. Maybe it won’t make much of a difference if I postpone my mission for six weeks, I would have more time to prepare and could spend more time with the people I love before I left but the time that I am called to go is in April. I am excited to serve and although I won’t be able to go home again before my mission, I feel SO MUCH peace about that date to report. I know that is when I am supposed to go. I don’t have to question the timing of my mission call, the Lord and the Lord’s servants know that my date to report is April 10th. I don’t know why, but the Lord does and that is good enough for me.