Daily Schedule

Each area causes me to stretch and grow in such different ways, one of the big ones is seeing that I want to keep my thoughts focused on the gospel and Christ constantly, so I need to build that habit now and keep it up after my mission.  It has gotten me to try and see how to put others first and what my priorities are.  I really loved conference and the reminder that I am a son of God, with great potential if I am just willing to put in the faith and effort.  I feel more confident in some things, and that's when I start seeing other areas I can improve on.  Rules are always changing, some lessons I have only taught a handful of times, and being on time is still hard but its so much fun to learn every day.  Recently I have been going over the Book of Mormon again in my studies with a focus on the Atonement and thinking about what things I can apply to the people we are working with.  This has placed me in Mosiah and I am loving King Benjamin so much!  Daily schedule is 6:15 wake up, 20 minute run, 2 minute plank, 8-10 minutes exercise, a 5 minute shower to conserve water, iron my shirt, shave and do my hair, eat cereal if there is time, mission prayer at 7:55 and start studies at 8.  10:15 we finish studies and then we go out trying to work with potential investigators and less actives until lunch at 12.  At 1 we head out again and we probably bike for 20 minutes or so to get to a different area of our ward and go to appointments, its funny to see how some people take us seriously and some people don't.  We just knock the doors we want to try, talk to people we see, until its time to start heading for dinner, which ranges from at our apartment to members, usually with the other missionaries in the ward.  We try to keep dinner to under an hour and then we hope that people will be home now that its after 6.  Then we come in before 9 to try and plan for the next day in 30 minutes and then prepare for bed and try to remember to write in my journal.