Men's Hearts shall Fail Them

If you would like to know what I learned this week, watch this video.



This week, I hit one year on the mission, and exactly five months left on the mission. It was kind of a roller coaster. It’s really weird to be two thirds done. Five months! That’s like tomorrow!

So I started kind of panicking a realizing that I only have five months left to take advantage of living every day completely focused on the Savior and on helping other people and on teaching the Gospel. I realized that I only have five months to be the kind of person I wanted to be by the end of my mission. But then I had a really awesome talk with my district leader, Elder Brady, Elder Fausett, and Irma Walton and then the elders gave me a blessing. The whole thing talked about how Heavenly Father wanted me to recognize the progress I’ve already made and just continue the way I’ve been working and with pure desires. I really had expected to get some constructive criticism because I’ve been pretty distracted this past week and not super focused on my purpose. But that’s why we have the atonement, so we can move forward.

A few days later, I found that video, and felt like I needed to apply it. Instead of an airplane crashing toward earth, I’m on a mission crashing toward its end. I found a lot of peace from the video, especially when it says, "Don’t demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference" So that’s what I’m trying to do, because really things are going well with the work. We have a girl named Madelena marked for baptism on the 24th and she is incredible. We have seen more people in church than in the last seven weeks, we have had more lessons taught and we’ve been finding new people. The quality of our work has increased so much. So it’s not perfection, but improvement that matters.

Also, this week I got to do a division with our coordinating sister, Irma Wilde, whom I knew in the MTC and we had an absolute blast. It was actually on my one year mark too so that was really fun. The closest we got to being able to celebrate was McDonald's and some candy, ha ha ha missionary life.

This week really has been great and so many of our investigators are starting to really get answers to their questions and recognize the truth of the gospel and the love God has for them. Ahhhh I love the mission! it’s so amazing

I love you all, and please pray for me to make it through these last five months as best as I can!