Have a vision!
This week I learned something that I wish I’d known in the beginning of my mission, that was to have a vision. In the mission conference this past week, President talked about having a vision and making our goals in accordance with that vision, but it hadn´t ever hit me like it did at the conference on Friday. The spirit really helped me learn. I feel like I really learned something that I needed to apply in my work. It was amazing, I felt like my eyes had been opened. Since, the beginning of the mission I´ve been working with people and trying to teach them the things that they needed-doing my best to teach as many lessons as I could and still be an effective teacher. I knew we were there to try and help them prepare for baptism, and we always marked dates with them, but I still didn’t have “the vision.” I was there teaching them the lessons they needed to learn and doing my best to prepare them for baptism-trying to make them understand. However, I should have had a vision of what that person needed to become, shared that with them, and tried to help them get there. I also realized that this vision can be applied to more than teaching investigators - it should be applied to each of us every day, every week, every transfer. For example, we have a vision for the transfer, then each week we look at where we are in reaching our vision. Then we plan what needs to be done that week to make progress and make goals in accordance. Each day we plan what we will try and do during the day to achieve what we have planned for the week and make goals in accordance. In the creation of this vision, planning, and realizing these plans, we must pray and ask continual guidance from the spirit to help us achieve what God really wants us to achieve. Elder Maier
