My experiences as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Fiji!: Center . on (*) the . Savior = JOY

Hey! It's Elder होवार्ड. How was your week?
I really hope it was great. I wanted to see how you're doing, and to let you know what I've been up to. Aaaaand, Can you share with me one meaningful insight that you feel God wanted you to learn from this past week? Could you share that with me? I would love to hear about that, and it's good to think about. Weeks can pass by so fast without a deliberate meaning, can't they? I notice that on the mission here in Fiji. I love learning from insights like that; because I want to live a life of deliberate and flourishing progress one week at a time. :)

Let's both do it!

It's been a year now(if you're counting months,) and you'd better not forget about me!! Hahah. Time flies and so soon it will be another week. Let's put our heads together and see what insights we can use to make this week EVERY HAPPY THING it can be.

We just barely had the opportunity to hear from the living Prophets who communicate with the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Did you like what they said?? Frankly, I haven't actually heard it yet, because Fiji is a little behind. Maybe you heard it already. I'm looking forward to it!

Here's the juice of my weekly report:

This week has been quite an adjustment for me. I love it! The work is really challenging and demands every minute of my every hour, and is literally non-stop. We are truly looking to the Savior as He personally is raising His expectations of us and we are rising up to the offer He extends to us to rise to higher levels than before; hastening the Lord's work.

He is opening the way for us to open the doors to Exaltation and Joy and the best that this life has to offer for others. It takes a lot of work.. but, it is Heavenly Father's will and we give ourselves non-stop fully to it, because it matters more to us than anything else--anything else.

Challenges never stop. And so we aught to realize that because of that, we might as well make all of our challenges joy and growth and fun, because in the end when we face and transform our burdens is the only time they can then fulfill their purpose: to positively transform us.

We were created to have joy! Not despite, but because of all the opposition. We must deliberately live our lives and grow and shift and mold to grandeurity God designed of us. Now. Simply by looking away from all the dark, and looking to Christ the light--and keeping our eyes there on Him.

Here is my new Daily Planner I designed after saying a prayer and going to work. It is like our life... we are given a white sheet, and all we are expected to do is say a prayer and go to work, and He'll provide the outcome grandly if we Center on the Savior. We just have to make sure we are good now and getting better. That is all we have to try to do in the moment we are in, day to day.

Let's live our lives deliberately, serving for Him... and without even realizing it, becoming like Him.

Life is Good!