In my personal study I was reading the fourth missionary talk and pondering a lot about what I need to do to improve my missionary work and my attitude towards the work. I even talked about it in my farewell talk a bit, about changing the intents of your heart and giving your desires to the Lord. I seemed to have an idea that you can do it like a flip of a switch, easy. Just give yourself to the Lord. no problem.
Changing the intents of your heart is hard, it can be a real challenge. And its a process, it really does take a lot of change. But what is the purpose of our time here on earth? to change!! Saying that its in your nature or its just the way you are, is never an excuse. The atonement and the plan of salvation is tilting everything in our favor, with help from the Lord and sincere prayer, we can be like our savior, and be able to live up to our divine potential that we each have received in the pre existence. Nothing we can create ourselves will be better than what the Lord has created for us.
A barrier I've always had is that I never had good grades, I never thought about myself as a smart person and that has limited my ability to progress, I was constantly limiting myself. But I am a daughter of God, I was born in this gospel to progress, and help others to progress.I am a daughter of a King and therefore I have no limits to what I can become. If I want to be loving, caring, affectionate, AND smart. than I am going to work to become that. I never got good grades in school because I didnt allow myself to. This is a life of no limits. This is a time where we can learn to become like God.
My challenge to everyone this week is to think about the barriers you each have and about how you can overcome them, and what steps you need to take to become the person you want to become. Because most of the barriers in life are mental
ones that we have created ourselves.
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