Be the Best!

Sorry I haven't haven't blogged in a long time....we have been super super busy. This is going to be a short blog but tomorrow I will write one to catch everyone up on everything we have done in Africa this week.


So while we are in Africa we go to the local church, Watoto South, which is actually apart of the country wide Watoto Church started by Gary Skinner and his wife, both of whom are from America and came here to start an orphanage (sounds like....Sozo!) and now is one of the largest churches and orphanages in Africa.


Sunday God spoke through the pastor a sermon that really caught my attention. He started off talking about the the Saturday before's community project the church did and how he was so impressed and humbled by how many people came and gave there money and abilities just to help someone else out for an hour. How the spirit had just taken over the hands of the workers and used them to fulfill God's work! He kept going on and on about how much he loved just watching people serve, and then he came to His point. He said that no matter what we do in life, if we do it in God's name we have a duty to do it to the best of our ability and that we have no right to hold anything back! 


That made me realized that I don't have to be perfect at everything I try to do, I just have to do the best I can at the things I know how to do. When I'm in school, I don't to have a 4.0, I just have to try my best and if my best is a 2.5 then so be it! What my best is, would be serving and caring for other people, and that's what my passion is. I would much rather drop everything I am doing and help someone else, that fulfill what I wanna do. Its probably where some of my procrastination comes from....but I don't care. I love it and I would serve someone else before my self at anytime, and that what God has called me to do and that what my best should be. When I'm in the middle of Africa and am re-concreting a floor, fixing a door frame or teaching an English class I should do it all to the best of my ability. That door frame may not be 100% level or the floor may not be 100% correct (but today it was pretty darn perfect...haha) I much do it all at 110% and nothing less, because I am who my Savior is and my Savior did nothing under what He was capable of doing! 


We must persevere to be the best that we can be. James 1:4 says: "Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."


Work Hard and Stay Strong....He is always will you and will always give you the power and wisdom to do His work!