~ I'm gonna
be a Zone Leader!! 3/25/2014
From Elder Dallin Carlson
Subject: I'm gonna be a Zone Leader!!
How's everything going there? Everything's going
well here especially considering...IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TOMORROW!!
It's happening right on transfer day... but I guess I'll
just have to go at it with the attitude that I've been trying to have every
day... just decide that it'll be the best day of my life! It doesn't
matter if I'll spend half the day travelling and be in a new area and the members
can't do anything for my birthday... there's still the fact that I can
look at the transfer as getting transportation as a birthday present, I just
have to look at it as having a chauffeur instead of not having a Filipino License(yet?)
I really hope that I will be allowed to have a License, it would
make it so much easier for splits.... and besides that there would be the fact
that I'd have a Filipino License, which would
be awesome in and of itself.
But one awesome part of my birthday is that the Lord is
giving me a gift of trust, responsibility and leadership by having me be a Zone
Leader in Carcar, Cebu! Looks like I'll be hopping Islands again. I
didn't get to spend too long here, we found many people's houses in our areas,
and found much soreness in our feet...but it was needed to help my companion
learn the area, I'm glad to suffer any and all things needed for the Lord's
work.
One thing I wanted to mention here in my letter is an
interesting question that was brought up in District Meeting Last week when I
taught about vision and goals... the tendency is to make plans and then set the
goals according to your plans... we discussed this and we found that we need to
find the balance between setting goals (to make us stretch) and having names
behind the numbers.. Any suggestions on how that process should go? I
told the missionaries to seek the balance through the spirit and prayer,
continuing to self-evaluate with everything.
Which is what I will continue to do to the end of my mission and to the
end of my life.
Until next week,
-a missionary
and servant of our Lord Jesus Christ,
~Elder Dallin Carlson
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