Hola everybody!!!
How is everyone doing? I am doing spectacular...
Just enjoying some hot and then all of a sudden cool weather. Seriously the
weather here is soo bipolar! But everything has been good.
We went to Monterrey for a meeting with the
mission president to talk about all that has been going in the mission. We
learned sooo much!!!!! I learned to make better goals and to be a better
missionary J. Haha! We first learned of the importance of working with
members; it was very helpful for us because we are kind of struggling with
having the members help us now. We learned that we need to have the members
look for the investigators. Our focus right now is to reactivate members and
help them come to church. So we are working with the bishop and getting members
to church, and while we do that, it’s ideal that the members are bringing
investigators to church. That is the plan, because the members will find better
prepared investigators for us if we work in that way. So it’s a really cool
idea, in the perfect world… Of course the people aren’t perfect and so we are
struggling a Little. But we are going to keep working at it. So it’s in the
process.
We also learned of the importance of
fulfilling goals and not just having dreams, but making dreams happen. There is
a 4 step process. It goes like this:
1) Vision 2) Goals 3) Plans 4) Accountability
So Vision is like saying that I am going to
lose 50 pounds, or just having the dream. It really can be anything that we
want. Goals are what we are willing to sacrifice and now putting a pathway down
to achieve the dream or vision. Goals can be big goals, like every week I will
lose 5 pounds so that in 10 weeks I lose all 50. Now the third step is what
EVERYBODY struggles with, is fulfilling the goals and going with the plans. But
the truth is if we plan specifically for every day or even every hour, we can
actually fulfill our dream. But the last step is super important as well, we
all need to be accountable to somebody like in the example to the 50 pounds, to
your trainer, family member etc. And for accountability you should plan how so
often are you going to report and to whom.
President Walker said that if we actually go
through this process with everything, we will make our dreams come true. One
person that we should be accountable to is God as well with everything so that
he blesses our plans with success. Wow I learned sooooo much that day and to
tell you the truth, that night I just collapsed on the bed spiritually and
mentally drained... Haha! Very good day, that
day.
On Wednesday night, while we were at the
mission offices, the Libertad stake center is right there and there was a stake
activity. I saw a lot of familiar faces that day from Lomas del Pedregal (my second
área). Oh it was sooo cool; I was sooo happy to see them! It was awesome.
Everything is good, Phone calls on Sunday at 6
pm our time here, I will call Mom first and then Dad and Mom second at 630 ok?
We will talk for a Little short time, but you guys can last 6 more months to
wait for ALLL the mission stories that I have. We will have to connect my
camera to the TV when I get home and just go through all the photos. It would
take like 2 hours because I have a ton! But it’s all good.
I love you all and be safe! Work hard and
fulfill your dreams!!! I hope my letter helped some of you to achieve your
goals and make your dreams really come true! Love the work, invite everybody to
go to church as well! J
Love,
Elder Justin Powell
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