Leadership Training

> family and friends, > > this week was incredible, the highlight was leadership training that we had in montevideo. we spent two days in the headquarters of the church where the mission home, temple, and church offices are located. we spent two nights in the hostal, and two days in meetings with president. by the end of the second day my brain couldnt handle anymore, at the end of the last segment i asked president if someone had filmed the training he said yes, and so i asked him for a digital copy because i didnt catch any of it. The food was amazing, all american food, by the end of the second day i was full. friday morning at 6 am all of the leaders divided into two teams and we had a solid game of soccer in honor of the world cup. all the missionaries of the south against the missionaris of the north.... it was intense. president was the referee. on the outside it was all smiles and laughs from the missionaries, on the inside it was bloodthirsty and pure desire to win. We won 12-5. i contributed to one of the goals with a awesome header. > > this coming week we have to train the missionaries based on the training we recieved, and we re pretty excited for that, ive learned i really enjoy teaching other missionaries. its been a blessing be able to work with the missionaries. > > this week, i spent most of my time pondering on the effects of self comparison. When we compare ourselves to others, we will find there is always someone, with more money, more confidence, better cloths, more intelligent, and if we spend our energy trying to become more like other people, or drawing our own self confidence based on being better than others, then we bulid on an empty foundation. We either are never good enough and cant accept ourselves, or spend our time constantly trying to gratify our vain ambition and selfish pride. the way of the Lord, is to base your self confidence in one question "what does Christ think of me?" and to constantly seek to build others. Seeking the aproval of Christ, and building others, fills us with joy, and oddly enough fills us with the confidence we were seeking the whole time. if we spend our time, focused on giving time and effort in the service of the lord, building others, we will be built, perhaps without our even realizing it. > > i love you guys, stay in the fight > elder myers >

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