The Perfect Missionary  

(Finland – Week 12)  

24 March 2015

Moi moi! 

It's almost been five months since I went into the MTC! Crazy how time flies! 

My companions made cinnamon rolls this week with improvised flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and frosting. They were absolutely delicious. Shout-out to my dearest mother for an impossible-to-be-undelicious cinnamon roll recipe. Also shout-out to my parents for teaching me how to clean a kitchen. I remember Dad telling us to do chores through the scriptures, "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man" (Luke 2:52) "Favor with man kids, that means you have to clean the toilet." I clean the bathroom here every week Dad. 

This past week I finished up my twelve weeks of training! Thus I am now a perfect missionary. No mistakes, fluent Finnish, 100% confident, and always led by the Spirit. Haha, no. That will never happen. I still make a lot of mistakes, last night I swapped "to meet" and "to kill" (and that was not the first time I've done that), I still am working on exact obedience, and I'm still not where I want to be at the end of my mission. But all of that is exactly ok. My trainer always told me to compare myself to who I was, not who I want to be, because my ideal isn't realistic quite yet. One of my favorite things that I learned in all this training is that the Lord has already invested a lot in me, and in each of you. We all have bodies, life, and a chance to do and become great. We already have so much confidence from the Lord that we can achieve these goals. If you're anything like me, you hate doing something wrong when you know you've done it right before. But imagine, if you were already perfect, where would the joy be in the rest of your life? I would be scared to try anything new because I already had perfection in my sphere. So don't worry about being perfect right now, and be confident in the Lord's confidence in you. Think about that, the most powerful, supreme, loving Heavenly Father has faith in you, an imperfect-bound-too-mess-up-again being. That's a lot of love right there. Go do great things, He's got your back. 

1 Corinthians 1:27 "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;"

Also as an important side-note: check out these socks, and sing the Finnish anthem whilst looking at the epic flag and BLUE sky. 

Much love to you all! 

Sisar Mendenhall