The day in the life of a missionary is the best! Every morning we wake up at 6:30 and say our morning prayers. We exercise from 6:30 to 7:00 and at 7:00 we begin to get ready for the day. At 7:30 we eat breakfast. Hermana Canul and I have a system where we switch off who makes breakfast every day. This morning it was my turn. We had french toast and scrambled eggs (both of which Hermana Canul has never eaten before.) From 8:00 to 11:00 we study, 3 hrs divided into 1 hour of personal study, 1 hour of companionship study, and an hour of language study. At 11:00 we leave the house and begin proselyting. At 2:00 we do what the call the comida, which is lunch, with members. The relief society signs up for days to feed us during the week and each day we eat with whoever signed up to feed us that day. There are tortillas present for every meal, it doesn't matter what we eat, there is always tortillas or the meal isn't complete. There are also usually beans as well and salsa as a condiment. I have learned to always just assume the salsa is hot and...about 99% of the time it is! I will usually put 3 or 4 little drops of it on my food and it's about the right amount of spicy that I can handle. My companion and everyone else we are eating with will put about 3 or 4 spoonfuls on everything. After lunch we continue working for the rest of the day. At 9:00 we return home and plan for the next day from 9-9:30. From 9:30 to 10:30 we prepare for bed, write in our journals and say our prayers. At 10:30 we go to sleep and the next day we start the day over again.
I love being a missionary. There are days that are hard, days that are long and times that I feel like I honestly can't go any farther. But through it all I have learned to trust in my Savior and in my Father in Heaven. When I work as hard as I can and trust in my Heavenly Father I always see the blessing that comes from it. Through all the long and hard days there are miracles along the way that out weigh any hard time and make it all worth it. We may have a day completely full of appointments and every single one falls through and we end up walking the entire day. But if we find 1 person in whose life we could make a difference or help in some way or another it was all worth it!
This week I have really been focussing on how we see things. We all live in the same world and live the same 24 hours each day, but we all see the world from a different perspective. I have noticed personally how my perspective has changed while I have been on my mission. The world around me hasn't changed it is completely the same, but my way of looking at it is different. We all have different experiences in life, different challenges and different circumstances that we may not be able to choose. What we are always able to choose however is how we look at them. 2 people can be facing the same exact trial but 1 of them may choose to look at it as an opportunity to learn and grow while the other sees it as a reason to be unhappy and lose hope.
There are several things in life we will never be able to change. But rather than spending our time focussing on these things we can't change we can focus on those that we can, one of which is our attitude. I remember something my brother said when asked what he did when he was put with a companion that he didn't get along with and how he dealt with it. He said, "Instead of trying to change them I focussed on how I would change myself. I could spend all the time I wanted trying to change them but it would never work. It wasn't until I focussed on how I could change that it made the difference."
By changing ourselves and our attitudes we don't change the world, but we change our world. By changing our perspective we have control over each day we live. It's only a bad day if that's the way we choose to look at it. Our lives are ultimately what we choose to make them.
I love you all! Choose to have a great week this week and make it happen.
Love, Hermana Peine
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