Keep Your Eye On The Ball

We had a pretty good week. I was thinking a lot lately about my whole mission. There are some good lessons you can learn just looking back and figuring things out. But probably the biggest thing that I noticed was that I wasn't really trying my hardest any more. I became less diligent, only worked out for 20 minutes in the morning instead of 30, didn't take studies as seriously or just got distracted in studies reading something that wouldn't help our area. They were all pretty small things but definitely make the biggest difference. So I've taken a hard look at myself and decided some things need to change. Small, simple, and easy changes but ones that can improve everything so much. I guess I just looked at it as a life lesson too. I'm super scared of getting home from my mission and loving the gospel for a while then just kind of slowing loosing sight of what matters most. I think it happens to the best of us. We just get distracted with friends, school, family, career, etc. The trick is catching ourselves when these times come around. The world really does distract us from what really matters, and that's the gospel. Sometimes it gets pretty hard to hang on the the iron rod. Sometimes we even have to hang on upside down but as long as we keep a grip on what matters most, our lives will work out. But just finding out and realizing our lives aren't in order doesn't do much if we don't do something to change it. The first and pretty important part is catching yourself when you aren't headed down the right path best the second and most important is doing something about it. We can't just expect everything to just work out if we ask Heavenly Father to change it. We need to put in the effort needed. It's something I need to do a lot more of. I took a hard look at everything I was doing and have been trying to change a lot of it for the better this week. It take constant effort but it something I really need. So I'm trying to become a better more consecrated missionary by look at myself every day and deciding what I need to work on and if what I was doing was the most important in my life. This gospel and my mission are the most important things right now. I love this gospel and what it does for me. I love my mission  and what it has done and is going to do for me.