1.27.14

ALMA 26:36

THE OZ PRINCIPAL voy a explicar

Thanks for the stories from President Hinton! I'm going to use the one about the bird house and his son. I am also writing a girl named T.V. She has been preparing to be baptized and she told me that she gave her testimony in conference or something. She said she’s going to BYU I before she serves her mission and says she’s having some problems with her mom. Her mom goes to CCV and doesn't want to sign the paper so she can be baptized. Honestly this girl is awesome and i would do anything to have an investigator like her. She wants to be baptized and i told her that if she had any problems or questions she could go to you because you're AWESOME with young women and helping them achieve their goals.

Also, this week we were able to have interviews with Pte. Smith and he was talking about the OZ PRINCIPAL...a book that he wrote (that you have to buy and read it and tell me the awesome things it says about being successful). I'm going to rant for a little bit...he is so awesome! His book is like one of the most known books in business and he’s a millionaire. NIKE had to pay him millions to use the slogan JUST DO IT because he owns that phrase!!!! Anyways...he was talking about all the problems that we were having here in ARTIGAS. People were saying, siesta sucks, its 126 degrees, Carnival is coming up, vacations, the lideres are gone, ward doesn't want to help and blah blah blah...he wrote all of them on a white board towards the bottom of the board and drew a line above them. He said, “Now...these here are reasons for why we are not having success. Some can be excuses but others are just legitimate reasons...there are so many people that are really good at figuring out the problem. You guys are all really good at figuring out why there isn't that much success in Atrigas and that is AWESOME. But some of you are BELOW THE LINE THINKERS. How do we become ABOVE THE LINE THINKERS? You ask yourself the question...WHAT MORE CAN I DO? There are a bunch of people who are good at pointing out flaws and problems, but there are very few people who figure out what they can do TO SOLVE the problem.” (When i heard this, i immediately thought about DAD and i...we are good at finding the problems and complaining about why things suck, but we rarely try to solve the problem) He said, if you want to be above the line, you have to SEE IT (see the problem for what it is), OWN IT (realize that it is your responsibility and that you are a part of the problem) SOVLE IT (figure out what you're going to do to solve the problem) and DO IT (don't just talk about what would solve the problem... do something about it and actually work! ) He talked about that and i just thought it was amazing...and so true. My companion E' Mar has been saying...well, we don't have many people in the church because everyone is on vacation...and i was getting frustrated cause i hated that excuse. I asked myself...WHAT MORE CAN I DO? There are still people here in Artigas that we are teaching that are not going to church. Until EVERY SINGLE one of them go to church, VACATIONS can NOT be an excuse for me...I explained this to President and he loved it. We also got the chance to go out and teach with him because he served in this area when he was here on his mission. He thought it was incredible how I teach and really loved how I want to have success. I asked him if we were allowed to read his book and he said of course not but your parents will love the book and really it will help their lives...as long as it doesn't interfere with their lecture of the scriptures!

Time’s going kind of fast...it is pretty crazy how I’m 1/4th of the way done... but seriously, the only thing i want is for the people to go to Sacrament Meeting. Thanks for the comments and really PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send me stories about tithing and how it has been a miracle in your lives. I know DAD would love to write me an email about an incredible spiritual experience about tithing.

Thanks love you!