I am about to go on another transfer! This will be my third area that I will be traveling to. I am leaving behind Stephen and John, two young men who I have been teaching since I first got to Telecom 2. They are great young men and I have come to love them very much. It is hard to have consistent meetings with people here because of weather, work, rain, sickness, culture and so many other reasons. So, discussions and lessons do not always go by quickly. It has taken me my entire time in Telecom 2 to help Stephen and John progress to baptism. They are now ready but I will not be here for their big day. That makes me sad but I have to remember that it is not the event as much as the rest of their lives that matters. They will now have access to the gospel and to eternal families! That is the important part. But, I am sad to be missing their baptisms, anyway. I guess Heavenly Father has new things in store for me. I do not know where I am going but will report to the mission home on Wednesday to find my new area and new companion. I will not be district leader this time around but that is all I know. I will simply do my best to make this next area a good experience for me and my companion. To be honest, I need a bit of a break from the difficult times here in Telecom 2. I will give it my all, no matter what. I promise.
Recently, I have been reading letters sent to me by dear friends (Benny Benson, and my mother). Both have given me ideas that I believe overlap and have influenced me to be a better missionary. Benny talked all about the importance of doing things with real intent and sincerity, while my mother mentioned things about reaching our personal bests. With these two ideas, I have come up with something cool and new to try to work on as a missionary. In life we are all faced with challenges everyday and every moment. We have to face them. There is no way around or under, only through. When we are trying to improve ourselves it is easy to set goals and even have people involved to motivate us. But it seems that each time a goal is set there is a time limit that we set as well. I seem to have a limited amount of motivation available within which I want to meet my goal or I tend to fizzle on the goal if it doesn't happen fast enough. This is not good at all. I have done this far too much in my life. Too often we have all found ourselves lost in our own ideas wondering what we can do, once we think of something we give limited work to it, or get frustrated or move on too quickly to something easier or more within our reach. I have come to a better understanding on mission. When I wake up in the morning, I can just do my studies, go out and just wait for time to tick by until I can rest again, or I can go out planning on using every second, or I can go out and actually use every second. I have witnessed and experienced moments of a sincere drive to accomplish something only to lose interest too quickly and before God has a chance to work miracles through me. Do not let this happen to you, take time and motivate yourself to follow through completely with whatever you have been inspired to do. Make sure that as you step forward into the light of each day you are driven and have real intent on reaching your personal best. If you do not face each and every sunrise with a real desire to do better then the previous day or week or month or life time, you will not reach your new found purpose or goal. Do not let your personal best stay the same for too long. Change it daily if you can even if it means only by a moment. Show to yourself you have improved measure it and see how far you have gone and you will be surprised to see just where you may be able to reach. Love you all so much, Ghana is warm and rainy right now but I am about to go into my second Hamitan (the hottest time of the year) wish me the Spirit so I do not die. Talk soon
Love, Elder Edison
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