Perfectly Perth: It's Not About You

There is a song from the EFY 2016 playlist called It's Not About You. My Fav. All of those songs have amazing messages. What could be better? Brownies? Nope. Not even brownies. Go listen to them.

It's not about you. It's for those who are blessed by what you do.

This week was....interesting. Life is always interesting when you are working with people, isn't it? It also included me stabbing myself with a knife and threats to be arrested! So lets just say things can only get better!!
We are determined to work hard. I read a scripture about Aaron who worked with diligence daily. (Alma 21:23) The hearts of the people began to change. I know if I work with diligence daily, the hearts of the people in this area will begin to change too.

We held a chapel tour this on Sunday which was really successful! I love seeing people interested in learning. It's exciting!!

Today we will be having a cottage evening with our investigators at our ward mission leader's home! That should be good as well!

I love serving with Sister Parsons. She is a good, hardworking missionary. Even though we speak a different language, we still get along great! The other day she was telling me her brother had to drink shark cartilage to help the cartilage in his knee, and I thought she said shock cotledge and I had no idea what she was talking about!!

Or she says "lour" instead of "law". And "pour" instead of "paw". I'm constantly saying, "What?" or "Sorry?" or "Just say it one more time." Hahaha! It's lots of fun.

We taught a lady from Thailand this week. She related a story about a father who was a the table one morning, eating breakfast with his son. His son accidentally knocked over the father's orange juice and it went all over his nice work shirt. The father angrily stood up yelled at his son and stormed around trying to find a new shirt. He was going to be late and had his wife drop him off. Because he was rushing around, he forgot some important documents he needed that morning for his meeting. His wife had to hurry home and drop them back to her husband. His wife had a bonus from being a top employee at her job, and on this day, she was late to her job and lost the bonus. Meanwhile, the son couldn't focus at school and didn't perform well at his football tryouts after school, and he didn't make the team.

All of this happened because of the reaction to the spilt orange juice that morning. If the father had kept calm, simply cleaned up the orange juice, changed his shirt and told his son to have a good day at school, everything would have had a better outcome.

It is so important to have peace inside of us. Our attitude and our actions strongly affect those around us. We can be peacemakers, positive, helpful, and happy, and those around us will be too.

Read your Book of Mormon and say your personal prayers to Heavenly Father. I'm serious. Don't just look over that sentence and not do it. If you haven't done it in a few days, do it today. If you haven't done it since last year, do it today. If you just did it yesterday, do it again today. If you have never read the scriptures or prayed to God in your life.....do it. Today.

Love,

Sister Beardall aka "Sista Beeadowl"