Dear Family and Friends,
Yes, I am still alive. I have been pretty busy lately with working at McDonalds. But I really needed to give y'all an update, so I took the time to sit down and write this. My job at McDonalds is going well. I like the people I work with a lot.
If any of you haven't seen the movie The Kite Runner, you should. It is the greatest picture of servanthood I have ever seen. While it's based in an Islamic conitation it definately has a certain similarity of Christ's sevanthood. Watch it.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Dear Family and Friends (and maybe people I don't know),
Yes, it is true. I am a McEmployee. Working at McDonald's is not so bad. I thought it would be a good experience. I am a person that has to be completely sure of how to do something before I will do it. I guess I scared of failure. I think God is using this job to push me out of my comfort zone. The first day was a bit different. The person I was assigned to learn from didn't really teach me that much. So it was mostly me guessing and then someone telling me I was wrong. This is not really how I am used to learning. I usually learn by reading about something and then doing it. I'm not really a trial and error type of person, but I guess sometimes you have to learn to adapt.
Also I think God is trying to humble me. Everybody I work with has more knowledge about the workings of a McDonald's than I do. I doesn't matter much how clever you are, if you don't know it, then you don't know it. So, I am learning that I need to be humble. Just because I have taken Calculus 3 and can do 3D Calculus and parametric equations, it doesn't mean I know something as simple as how to fry up some more frech fries. It is dumb for me to think that I am "smarter" than anybody. It's almost ridiculous to think I had that thought.
I just want to throw some prayer requests out there.
The ministry here-
There have been some really cool opportunities to talk with people lately
Direction in my life-
I'm still not sure what direction I am heading career wise and life wise
The church here-
The Manti Pageant time drains the Ex-Mormons in the church.
Yes, it is true. I am a McEmployee. Working at McDonald's is not so bad. I thought it would be a good experience. I am a person that has to be completely sure of how to do something before I will do it. I guess I scared of failure. I think God is using this job to push me out of my comfort zone. The first day was a bit different. The person I was assigned to learn from didn't really teach me that much. So it was mostly me guessing and then someone telling me I was wrong. This is not really how I am used to learning. I usually learn by reading about something and then doing it. I'm not really a trial and error type of person, but I guess sometimes you have to learn to adapt.
Also I think God is trying to humble me. Everybody I work with has more knowledge about the workings of a McDonald's than I do. I doesn't matter much how clever you are, if you don't know it, then you don't know it. So, I am learning that I need to be humble. Just because I have taken Calculus 3 and can do 3D Calculus and parametric equations, it doesn't mean I know something as simple as how to fry up some more frech fries. It is dumb for me to think that I am "smarter" than anybody. It's almost ridiculous to think I had that thought.
I just want to throw some prayer requests out there.
The ministry here-
There have been some really cool opportunities to talk with people lately
Direction in my life-
I'm still not sure what direction I am heading career wise and life wise
The church here-
The Manti Pageant time drains the Ex-Mormons in the church.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Dear Family and Friends,
Well I said I would try to update this thing more often, and I have failed. I was informed that people back home really do read this, so now I have motivation to keep updating. It's such a blessing to know that people care enough about me and about what God is doing to read my updates (I'm smiling as I type this).
Things have died down a bit since the Pageant. It was such an intense two weeks of training, studying, praying, and talking to people that everybody who is a part of the ministry here had to take a rest last week. Things are back to the norm now. During that week I recognized one of the Devil's traps. It seems that after an intense time of spiritual warefare many of us don't know how to rest in the Lord. Actually, I think the problem is that we think we need to take a rest from the Lord. This is one of the Devil's lies. It's so easy to say "Well I studied so much last week, or I prayed this many hours yesterday, I should be good for a while." This is far from the truth. God sees our hearts' and knows our motives. God is the one who renews our strength. We should be resting in him and not from him. We can trust that we will strengthen and renew our motivation and our drive.
Well I said I would try to update this thing more often, and I have failed. I was informed that people back home really do read this, so now I have motivation to keep updating. It's such a blessing to know that people care enough about me and about what God is doing to read my updates (I'm smiling as I type this).
Things have died down a bit since the Pageant. It was such an intense two weeks of training, studying, praying, and talking to people that everybody who is a part of the ministry here had to take a rest last week. Things are back to the norm now. During that week I recognized one of the Devil's traps. It seems that after an intense time of spiritual warefare many of us don't know how to rest in the Lord. Actually, I think the problem is that we think we need to take a rest from the Lord. This is one of the Devil's lies. It's so easy to say "Well I studied so much last week, or I prayed this many hours yesterday, I should be good for a while." This is far from the truth. God sees our hearts' and knows our motives. God is the one who renews our strength. We should be resting in him and not from him. We can trust that we will strengthen and renew our motivation and our drive.
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