November 13, 2012

BABY JACKSON IS PRECIOUS!!!!!!!

I was so thrilled this week to hear about babay Jackson coming into the world!!!! :) He is beautiful! and BLONDE???? (Jenny he's the baby in my dream!!)

I hope everyone is doing well, thank you for all the wonderful letters this week I sure needed them! :)

 

Okay before I tell you about all the wonderful life lessons I learn't this week I wanted to CHALLENGE YOU to participating in a little comitment of mine :) ( As most people know missionaries LOVE giving out commitments) So! I wanted to extend one of my own to EVERYONE who reads this blog. I ask that you please take it seriously, and take your time to think about what you write before you respond. I promise that by taking the time to do this you will find more joy and happiness in your life. That whatever you are struggling with will be made easier as you strive to seek out Christ in your life.

Okay! My challenge to you is to for this next week

1)At the Begining of every day say a prayer of gratitude express to Heavenly Father all of the blessings you have been given and strive to recognize even little things that you've been blessed with.

2) THEN ( this is the big challenge so pay attention) I wan't you to pray for the opportiunity to witness a miracle during your day. Now, it takes a little more than that, because I want your to anxiously seek out ways that you can be a miracle in someone elses life as well. ( SO you might not know first hand what the miracle was, but even smiling at a stranger on the way to work could be a miracle in someone elses life that day). I promise  you that as you pray for the opportunities to see miracles and blessings in your life, Heavenly Father will show them to you. I'm concerned that too often we don't see the small simple miracles that happen in our everyday lives that build our strength and increase our Faith.  

3) Report Back! In your prayers that evening look back on your day and think about the miracles you've seen, or how you have been a miracle in someone elses life that day. Then WRITE IT DOWN!! I want to hear about your experiences at the end of the week so please START TODAY and do this for 1 week. Every night write down your experiences, and then at the end of the week either Dear Elder them to me, or snail mail them. ( What ever works) I promise you that by participating in this activity you will feel Gods love and spirit more abundantly in your life, you will be happier, and anything that has become a burdwn which seems too difficult to bear will become lighter.

 

 

WHAT A CRAZY WEEK! Haha ( did I ever mention how much I love the MTC?)

I really do learn so many amazing lessons here that I wish I would have really understood growing up. This week changed my life. It finally clicked! I feel like my whole outlook on life has been completly backwards and I am excited to move forward with determination and hard work to ackomplish all the things Heavenly Father needs me to do.

Throught my life I've always been satisfied with adequate performance. If something was too hard, I would try it another way. Or if I didn't like to do something, I would just do something else that I liked to do. I've been constantly allowing myself to justtify everything I do hoping that someday miraciously I will wake up and be this Great Missionary, or Outstanding Pianist, or Amazing Mother, or Martathon running Grandmother. ( You know what I mean?). Anyways, I re-evaluated the way I go about doing things and realized that I am a HUGE procrastinator. How often do I say " Oh it can wait till tomorrow", or " Next week forsure I'll commit to doing that every single day". I look at who I want to be at the end of my life ( or my mission) and think " Oh yeah, someday I'll be that great thing" - "At the end of my mission I will be this wonderful spiritual giant who is perfect at speaking Korean" or " Next year I'll be in better shape" or " I'll make my bed after I get ready, or clean my room later today". ( do you kind of understand what I'm trying to get at?)

 

But It's RIGHT NOW. RIGHT THIS SECOND that wil change your life. If we wait to act upon or decisions to change, or to do something IT WON'T HAPPEN!!! Making the commitment to change and do something in that VERY second is what will make the difference. That is what will change who I am on my mission. Saturday Nov 10th at 4:45pm is when the switch flicked in my head and I finally got it. I realized that right then and there at that every second I had to make the descion tobecome a real missionary. To change. To do WHATEVER it took at that every second to be the missionary I want to be at the end of the mission -Right now.Today.

It's no longer about me, or how many excuses I can make up for not being adeuate enough, or smart enough or good enough. It's about making the sacrifices I need to inorder to make this mission about HIM.  My mission isn't about me, and nether is my life's mission. When we finally can take that big step backwards and look at the big picture you'll see that this trivial day to day things in the long run will not matter. That this life really is all about finding happiness, finding joy and peace, understanding your purpose and potenital, and then helpping others find that aswell.

 

As I've been struggling with the language and my abilities to speak, my teacher sat me down on Saturday and said to me;  You haven't been called to learnt he Korean Language, you've been called to MASTER the Korean Language- SO STEP UP TO THE CALL. God wouldn't have called you to do this unless he knew you could do it! If learning the Language means you have to make some sacrifices THEN MAKE SACRIFICES! Do what ever it takes because if you let the language get in between you and your purpose- your goal of helping the Korean people find that Happiness and Joy that you have found through living the gosple then you are not fulfilling your purpose!!!! Make the decision right now to do whatever it takes to reach that goal- to filfill your purpose. If a Mountian is holding you back from reaching it, then by all means start this second to CLIMB THAT MOUNTIAN. Stop being okay with mediocor efforts and start sacrificing. Missionary work is about working hard and I've been callled to do things that are hard- But Heavenly Father has proved himself time and time again, that as we put of faith and trust in him, we can ackomplish hard things. SO set goal! and work through the hard day, and sacrifice whatever it make be to reach that Goal!   

DO THAT! RIGHT NOW! Whatever the change you know you need to make- whateve the sacrifice is- Do it. Right here right this second. I don't care how many excused you can make - I could give you thousands of reasons why I can't learn Korean. BUT I've been doing it wrong my whole life. It's time to take action, to so whatever it takes to become the person we need to be. If you are struggling in  your relationships, or your job, or with anything- Especially is your relationship with God is lacking, or non- existant. I know that as you start right now to climb your mountian you will be blessed in more ways that you could possible imagine. Life is hard, we have to work for the things we want most. We have to become the person we want to be at the end of our lives to day- and make the changes now to becoming that person.

 

This week I am giving up my English. My sacrifice starts right now, and I will continue to make whatever sacrifices it takes to master this language. No more messing around, God called me to Open my mouth and thats what I'm going to do. ( only this week you will only hear Korean coming out! )

 

 I love all of you so much! I look forward to hearing about your Miracles

<3 Sister Sulz