Being a missionary isn´t all candy and sugar... it actually isn´t candy and sugar at all unless we go buy ice cream or something. :P President Riggins always tells me that the hardest kind of business is people business, working with people is SUPER hard, even for people people.
I´ve declared that the world would be a better place if people kept their promises and had the desire to help one another. After walking away from a house of a lady who basically messed up a big old plan of ours because she didn´t do what she said she was going to do I told my companion ¨When I get married, I don´t want a girl who´s drop dead gorgeous, that is, if she isn´t considerate, loving, and smart at the same time.¨
I then found myself declaring ¨I WANT A VIRTUOUS WOMAN!¨
I remember reading about Aristoltle difining virtue as:
¨a disposition to behave in the right manner and as a mean between extremes of deficiency and excess, which are vices.¨
-or, as my simple mind translates to be: Virtue is when someone acts as they should. Stop me if I´m wrong, I could be. I don´t understand Aristoltle all that well, the man blows my mind with his words...
The question comes with the idea that virtue means that we should act as we should: How should we act?
In 3 Nefi 12:48 it we read:
¨Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect.¨ (see also mattew 5:48)
and in 3 nefi 27:27
¨...Therefore, what manner of men ought ye to be? Verily I say unto you, even as I am.¨
Therefore, how are we to be virtuous? We need to be like christ. How can we be like christ? Study the scriptures and try to develope his atributes in ourselves:
Faith, Hope, Love, Charity, Knowledge, Patience, Humility, Diligence, Obediece, ect. (See Preach My Gosple chapter 6)
In Preach my Gosple it explains that virtue is not only our actions, it´s our thoughts. God knows who we are inside and outside, and we will be accountable in the last days for who we are, not just what we do.
I remember the book To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. In that book the question was if Aticus Finch was the same in his own house as he was in the courthouse. I think that we ought to ask ourselfs the same: are we the same in our own house as we are in public?
or better yet: are we the same in our minds as our friends think we are.
Virtue is importaint. For me, what matters is who you are, not what you do.
I could keep going, but I think I should stop there. I´m out of computer time anyways.
Working with people takes its toll, but for the most part I´m alright, I haven´t gone crazy yet. I did hit a depression point last week when my pen drive got stolen out of the cyber.
I lost all my pictures ...again. I´m uploading what I have to Dropbox right now, as I should have been doing all along. I´m sure there´s a lesson to be learned about procrastination and repentance in all this. (see Alma 34:33 repent ye!)
You guys are saving the pictures I´m sending home, right? I hope so because... that´s all I´ve got right now.
I´m doing good now though, we had to go over some icecream theorpy but I´m glad to say I´m back on top. :)
Things here are great. Thanks for all the support.
Love you all!
-Cameron
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