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Spiritual Thought of the Week: Inspire

We were on our way home from an exchange in Laredo, and the Assistants did a little "comp study" with us in the car as we drove home. They asked us, "what do you want for your sisters that you serve?" so we gave some answers - for them to be successful, happy, to understand how to help others, etc. Then they said "what's President Maluenda's vision for us as missionaries?" and we remembered.. his vision is that we become great mothers/fathers/husbands/wives. Everything he does is so that we can become those people that the world needs. So we talked a little bit about how having the bigger picture can help us really inspire our sheep to grow to greater things, instead of just doing things because they know they should. It made a big difference! as we've had that in mind it's been a lot easier to understand what decision really is the best, and have the love to correct and help people grow to be better. and then, I realized that that's the trick of great leadership AFTER the mission (and this is where it applies to all of you) - our life here on earth is all just preparing us for the after-life, just like how the things I'm learning now are preparing me to be better after the mission, and that makes it worth helping others be better, because our decisions here make ALL the difference in where we'll end up. Pretty cool, right? It reminded me of a quote from 2 conferences ago, that said "permitamos que nuestro destino eterno sea el factor determinante de nuestras decisiones" - roughly translated, let us have our eternal destiny be the determining factor of our decisions.. Anyway, that's helped me a lot :) Hope it helps you!

Love you lots,

M

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Hermana Reynolds