Hello again everyone,
Well this week has gone a lot better than the last one, we're picking up the pieces of our areas and everything is going a bit better. Numbers are going up and the teaching pool is getting bigger!
So we spent Wensday and Thursday on our bikes in our HUGE area. It covers two stakes.... I think we probably covered over 20 miles easy that day. Spent probably 2 hours or so biking and sweating it out. We ran out of miles since we had to dive really far for about 4 days. It ate up about 250 of our 950 allotted miles. We had just enough to make it to the church and back the last night of the month so we drove that and when we got back we had used 950.00 miles, haha. That was pretty funny to me.
Friday we made pies for the zone. We met to do it for just the district but good ole Sister Green got a bit confused and gave us a double recipe and we ended up making 4 pies instead of 2. So now the zone loves us (as if they didn't already :P) and we all had some good fun with that. They turned out pretty good too, especially because we found half the apples in the fridge and had no idea how long they had been in there....
Saturday was really fun. We had a ward picnic at a park and did a lot of fun picnic-y things with the ward. They soaked the bishopric, ate a lot of hot dogs and water melon and did all the good stuff. We got pulled aside by the ward mission leader and for an hour talked to a man that was at family reunion. Bless the man's heart but the ward mission leader jumped from subject to subject and I'm surprised the man wasn't completely confused all together. Bro. Le'i is one bold and fearless missionary though for sure, no doubts about that. We got an address and the man wants missionaries over so it was a job well done.
Yesterday we had a good "break the fast" with the YSA ward and a good time at church as always. It's always good to hear people bare their testimonies. Some of the most powerful ones come from the people you really least expect.
So this week I've been thinking about goals and diligence and such. We've been helping a recent convert out a lot with some stuff but the thing is that he has almost 0 motivation. I mean literally none. He says he wants to do things but every time he tells "I want to I just have no motivation". This is obviously an extreme example but it made me realize something, we'll never get anything done unless we really want it. It's why people don't lose weight, it's why people never learn to play an instrument and it's why unmotivated missionaries don't get baptisms. If you want something bad enough you will find a way to do it. If you don't have that desire to do it then you never will. You desire needs to be so much that you're almost obsessed I'd say.
Going back to one of my favorite talks, M. Russle Ballard quotes a man and says:
“The longer I live, the more weight I attach to a man’s ability to manage and discipline himself. The longer I live, the more firmly convinced I become that the essential factor which lifts a man above his fellows in terms of achievement and success is his superior capacity for self-discipline.
“Education is a priceless aid to success, of course, but education is not the difference. The educated derelict is a common sight, and so is the man who has achieved resounding success without the opportunity for, or the advantages of, a formal education. It seems a valid conclusion that while formal schooling is an important advantage, it is by no means a guarantor of success, nor is its absence a fatal handicap.”
“For my part, I have concluded that the quality which sets one man apart from another—the factor which lifts one man to every achievement to which he reasonably aspires while the other is caught in the slough of mediocrity for all the years of his life—is not talent, nor formal education, nor luck, nor intellectual brilliance, but is rather the successful man’s greater capacity for self-discipline.” (Woodson is the man's name)
So there you have it. I know this work is the work of God. Have a good week and I'll write more then!
-Um no exercito de Deus
Elder Teela
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