I made a breakthrough this week!
As you are all aware, before my mission I loved to exercise. I could have run all day and that would have made me the happiest girl alive. My favorite feeling in the world was that feeling of complete physical exhaustion after a long run or a hard workout. I'm pretty sure I was addicted to the "runner's high." When I first became a missionary, I really struggled with accepting that fact that I probably wouldn't have another "runner's high" for 18 months because any average person who has served a mission can tell you that no matter how hard to try to make it the same, exercise as a missionary and exercise as a normal person are very, very different. I really missed the feeling of just doing one more push up or running one more mile, then just collapsing after all sweaty and happy! But I have found a new runner's high on my mission that will have to do until I get home and I can spend an entire day at the gym! My new runner's high is long, hard, exhausting work. This week I was thinking back on the times that I have been happiest on my mission and those times were the days when I worked with all I have and gave the Lord all I've got, then crashed into bed, aching but satisfied. So I have decided that every single day when I go out, I will not go back into my apartment without giving away all of the Book of Mormons in my bag. I will talk to every single person on the street. I will love and serve the members and less actives and pour all of my heart into their well-being. And when we find investigators (and I know we will because they do exist in Coomi like they did in Jinhae and Pohang) I will give my whole heart to them too. I have faith that if I give God all that I have miracles will happen. So I can't slow down and just run 8 miles when I know I can run 10 or just talk to the people who seem nice or easy to talk to because I cannot judge who is prepared and who isn't. God is the only one who knows their potential. but I know mine and I can't just let myself fall below the bar. I can jump higher and higher so that my "bar" keeps getting higher and higher and I keep learning how to reach and raise it. I know I can do all things through Christ and if I trust Him it will all work out! If I don't give Him all I've got, then everything that I have given up to serve my mission, everything that I have put into the last 11 months, will be worthless. But I love god and I know that He will help me! Please pray for us to find new investigators and help this area!
사랑해요!!!
"I you love"
Sister Johns
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| It's Buddha's Birthday, so all of the Buddhist temples are decorated so pretty!! |
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| The lanterns all say "Happy Birthday Buddha! |
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