How Bad is it Wanted
This week was a rough one to say the least. It's alright it
happens sometimes as a missionary! You want to know the best part about it all
though? Somehow we are still so dang happy and it makes no sense. No sense at
all. I apologize for the short email in advance.
This week was filled with lots of days, if not all days of
our plans, not going to plan. SO many appointments dropped and so many
different directions taken. There were so many back up plans that fell through
too....How does that even happen?? There were a lot of hard days where you
couldn't help but just look around a say, well what do we do now? You have
those days as missionaries. You have days where no one wants to listen. You
have days where you literally get rained on all day and on top of that, you have
no appointments. You have those day where you feel as though you have had no
success. Or where you wonder if you are doing something wrong, or anything
right. Made fun of, laughed at, spit at, mocked, the list goes on. You are so
tired and so worn out. You have those feelings once or twice or maybe many
times a day that you would rather just give up or go home. It happens to the
best of us. But those moments don't mean a thing, because at the end of the
day, you are somehow happy. WHY? Well, your a missionary!!! How bad do you want
it? How many days could you go on doing that and still be a successful
missionary? Will you do the things you're supposed to regardless of success?
Will you still open your mouth? Will you still report to your Father in Heave each
night and thank Him for building you today? Are you willing to keep going? Good
news, it always gets better.
I love being a missionary and there isn't a single day that
I don't wake up and get fired up to go out and do the Lord's work. I don't miss
an opportunity to thank my God for the opportunity He has given me to do this.
I can't think of a better way to live a life than in the service of our great
God. There is nothing more rewarding. There is nothing more exhilarating. There
is nothing more humbling. Well, then it has to be true doesn't it?
Love you all!
Elder Thompson
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