jakemcgrathmission: The Great McDonald's Analogy (Week тридцять сім)

Well, as expected, another great week on the mission. Let's jump into it. For the third week in a row, Elder Lukach and I traveled to the great city of L'viv. This time, we were in L'viv to do another one of our monthly MLC's where we discuss our mission needs and create action items that are meant to help each and every missionary. This MLC went very well and we created three actions items that each missionary can apply and help them going forward. During this MLC, like every one, President Rizley will lead a segment, usually on how we can better magnify our assignments as leaders. Near the end of his segment, he gave an analogy that is somewhat funny, but is also very very true. He compared missionary life and missionary work, to a McDonald's fry scooper. He said that they were complete opposites and they work against one another. To quote him directly, "The McDonald's fry scooper is the enemy to an LDS mission. Here's why. When a worker at McDonald's uses this wonderfully crafted scooper, he/she has no decision on how much they can put in a container. The device is crafted where no decision making is necessary, just based on the size they put around the same exact amount of fries. This works really well for business, but not as well for missionary life and life in general. In life we have free-agency, we can choose what we want to do, when we want to, and how we can go through life. Just one thing I'd advise, turn to the Lord for help! Anyway, that was a great part of MLC and just a great analogy, hope you enjoyed it!

The rest of the week went really well too. On Friday, before English practice, we did a finding activity to help us get more people at our practice. Some things that we have done to do that is make massive chalk drawings saying free English and what not, just to get people's attention and interest in learning some of the English language. Another activity that we have done is "interviews with Americans" where people can just sit down and talk to us about English and who we are, then we give them a card and invite them to English practice. Really, we're just trying to get creative and find people in many different ways, if you have any ideas, feel free to shoot them over to us!!

Anyway, to finish off I want to talk about some habit that I've developed on my mission, at least to my own knowledge. This past Sunday, I had the opportunity to bear my testimony and it went really well. I went up and shared how I know this Church is true and we are lead by people who really can receive revelation to help us in these days. But afterwards, one member came up to me and said that I need to stop being so shy. Apparently, whenever I'm speaking or sharing my testimony, I like to shake my shoulders. haha I've never noticed it or anything but everyone else does. So every time I do that, the members and other missionaries make fun of me for it, super duper funny! Anyway, that was my week. Today we went out to the tunnel of love, super pretty and super greeen!!! Have a great week and talk to you later

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1 Nephi 1:1 read and ponder these verses. Look at the footnotes and you can further understand that our trials are only here to help us!