June 17th

Well here we are... a week after my birthday and I don't feel any older. :) I hope that it is a good thing. I think the mission is going smoothly. This last week mu jia has been blooming. I've found as we reap sow and continually do what God asks of us we the work turns into the miracle ground we always pray for. We have some awesome Investigators. We had an awesome opportunity to teach a Mister zhou yesterday. I met him on the street with his girlfriend. He gave me his number but at that time he definitely had interest in one thing... it happened to be girl from the green island by his side. Well I called him up and he said he would love to meet with us. A little shocked I set up a time and finished the phone call in the usual Elder Reynolds " bu yao tai shui, hao bu hao" Well last night we met with him and He was GREAT. The spirit was super strong and At the End we shared about baptism and asked if he would be willing to prepare to follow Christ's example and... at this point he said "I'm willing. What date and when?" we almost started laughing. He was so willing to learn about Jesus and see if he really could get an answer to prayer. It was amazing. Well as always it's summer here and　ＢＵｒＮＩＮＧ  Hot and sweaty. :)

 

 

My thoughts:

 

I've found That no matter what I do I can only end up where God wants me. In short God still has his destiny for me. I'm learning as each time you've given more then you thought you could, you reach a point of understanding... one where you know all you've given is not enough. It happens regularly to me throughout me life and now I'm getting the pattern down. Goes like this

 

1. we make a goal

2. we accomplish, fail or miss the goal

3. either way, failure or success we realize we didn't do all we could and can actually do more.

 

Step 3

This is what I wanna focus on. No matter if we have success or not, the truly mature realize after success that they still can do better. That's why every Olympics world records are broken. That's why every year fortune five companies exist. It's all because someone understood after success still comes a realization that the accomplished goal was not the end nor the top. Bad can get good, good CAN get better, better Can get best and best can always get closer to perfect.  Now this may seem simple enough and yes we may all agree this is a true principle, but I want to ask one question. When was the last time you accomplished something? After you accomplished whatever it was did you think you could have done better? Sometimes I find myself so overjoyed in the fact of accomplishment I miss the great learning process that the best of the best use everyday. It all comes in the words "what could I have done better, Even form what I did well." I find I need to ask myself this more. I made a goal of everyday asking myself this andFINDing an answer. I encourage all to do the same.

 

"Never let success be your ultimate failure." Because I promise one be learning about failure from success brings a whole kind of successes all waiting for YOU.

 

 

Thanks  for all your love