Week #74: está brava la cosa
Yo everybody! Hope it was a good week for everyone. My week went well as I finally had surgery on two of my toes to take out the in grown toe nails hahaha! Surgery went fine and was quick and easy and now Im fine and working like normal again!
I went down to the capital on Thursday to get the surgery done with another missionary (elder Parry) from my zone who was having the same thing done as well. After the surgery, we weren't able to walk much until Sunday. Elder Parry and I had a lot of time to just sit around and talk and not do much for a few days. No missionary really likes that haha...we just about went insane from boredom! But, after talking with Elder Parry for a while, I feel like I came to understand something a lot better.
We both were getting a little frustrated with the past few weeks in the mission because we've been traveling so much and doing so many miscellaneous things, that weve lost tons of time in our areas. For those who don't know, Im serving in Argentina right now, and while thats awesome, we have to travel a lot and it takes lots of time, just because buses only go so often. So the past 2-3 weeks, we haven't had a full day to work in our own area. We got frustrated and we felt as if we were being restricted from doing Gods will because we weren't able to just focus on the people we are teaching and going out and serving people. After some complaining, I realized that it was pretty dumb of us to be saying those things because it was all completely out of our control...and in fact we still were doing Gods will.
Sometimes we beat ourselves up over our circumstances and outside forces that mess things up, but we forget that God just wants us to do the best we can and He will take care of the rest! I think we often times complicate things that are out of our control, and it ends up just messing up things even more. We dont need to worry so much about the results of all of our actions. Instead, we should worry more about the effort and drive we are putting into becoming a better, more Christ-like person. God will give us what He sees fit, and we're not in the place to complain about it! If we do our part, we will be blessed. Whether it be in this life, or the one to come!
