Working at a Library for two years, you really learn your alphabet. Sorry, but those who haven't, you really don't know it inside out and backwards in the same way. But these skills are extremely useful for looking up words in a dictionary. Especially when you are competing with the Elders or Teachers. They didn't stand a chance...
The west campus is much more beautiful then main, except from here the mountains look like a green screen. Only on certain days with particular sunlight or clouds do they actually look real! I guess that just goes to show how far modern technology has come... But I still can't wait to hike up one! Thankfully Hermosillo has mountains
Missionaries really do have a different sense of entertainment, simply due to not having technology or other books around. This includes having elders who mime kill eachother, almost hourly. And sister missionaries who follow some ducks around for maybe a little bit longer then necessary. (That may or may not have been us.)
These random experiences are great though, because you can make basically anything into a metaphor for a principle or doctrine. Random things such as clouds, turbulence, and ducklings may or may not have taken up a few pages of my journal for this purpose...
I feel as though I have two main things that I have really come to understand though. First:
Work Hard, Try Your Best, Push Yourself. But I learn the most when you stop worrying about what I don't know.
As I came to this conclusion, I started to pick up the language SO much faster. I found that it just simply came easier and I was able to focus better. I also found that I was so much happier instead of being stressed out all the time. We have a quote in one of our rooms from president Hinckley that I feel sums this all up perfectly. It reads:
I feel as though I have two main things that I have really come to understand though. First:
Work Hard, Try Your Best, Push Yourself. But I learn the most when you stop worrying about what I don't know.
As I came to this conclusion, I started to pick up the language SO much faster. I found that it just simply came easier and I was able to focus better. I also found that I was so much happier instead of being stressed out all the time. We have a quote in one of our rooms from president Hinckley that I feel sums this all up perfectly. It reads:
"Carry on. Things will work out. If you keep trying and praying and working, things will work out. They always do. If you want to die at an early age, dwell on the negative. Accentuate the positive, and you'll be around for a while."
The other thing I realized was something I've always known. One of our teachers asked us to think hard about what is one thing we know will full surety, absolutely no doubts. The thing that is my rock, and where my testimony stands. The part of this gospel that I hold dearest in my heart and desire to forever grow and strengthen. So that I can look my investigators or future children or whomever it may be in the eyes when everything else is wrong and testify of is this.
God is very literally our loving Heavenly Father, and is there for us through it all. He is why we have what we have, and we can do what we need to with a smile on our face and a prayer in our hearts.
I know this is true. That's why I'm serving a mission and desire to share this gospel, because that has brought me greater strength and joy then anything else to be found on this planet.
Hermana Crawford
The other thing I realized was something I've always known. One of our teachers asked us to think hard about what is one thing we know will full surety, absolutely no doubts. The thing that is my rock, and where my testimony stands. The part of this gospel that I hold dearest in my heart and desire to forever grow and strengthen. So that I can look my investigators or future children or whomever it may be in the eyes when everything else is wrong and testify of is this.
God is very literally our loving Heavenly Father, and is there for us through it all. He is why we have what we have, and we can do what we need to with a smile on our face and a prayer in our hearts.
I know this is true. That's why I'm serving a mission and desire to share this gospel, because that has brought me greater strength and joy then anything else to be found on this planet.
Hermana Crawford
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