"When you get your mission call there is a "To Do List," of things that a person should do to help them better prepare to be a missionary such as read the scriptures for a half hour everyday, and study from Preach My Gospel, well the Church really needs to add one more thing to that list: "Get dumped." Our investigator broke up with us last night! My very favorite investigator. He's been struggling quiting smoking, but keeps saying that he is committed to he's date. We get out of dinner, and we have a voice mail. It's from our investigator. I don't think anything because he calls us multiple times a day. Then we hear the message, and he says "Hey Sister Smith, and Sister Worthington. I went to church with my friend today, and I just wanted to call, and say thanks for everything but I think I'm going to go to he's church now. I learned a lot from you. Thank you." He broke up with us over voice mail! He doesn't even have the nerves to do it in person! (I would have been hysteric if he would have texted). I calmly tell my companion to roll up her window, and then proceed to scream. I just yelled at the top of my lungs. Of course we had places to be so I am just yelling in the car about "He won't even get in the Celestial Kingdom now! He can't have access to the Atonement, because that dumb church doesn't have the Priesthood! The Authority of God! The AUTHORITY OF GOD!" So that was the hysteric stage. Then came the angry stage; "Sorry, that you have to quit smoking to be baptized, really we are sorry that that is so hard to quit smoking but guess what I am sure it was really hard for the Savior to suffer for your sins! I'm sure it was really hard for him to die on the cross so that you'll be able to live again." (Please note that I am not with my investigator but I am just unloading this all to my companion.) Then came the manic episode. I started laughing hard while fat tears just rolled down my cheek. Saying "No, one's ever broken up with me before!" At this my companion was "not even a boyfriend?" So now I'm off on a different tangent saying "I always knew I would go on a mission so they were always more into me than I was into them, I would just let things fizzle out, and plus I was always leaving: home to Canada, or Jerusalem, or my mission." Then I wiped off my tears, and am currently happily residing in denial. I will not admit that he dropped us. I'm convinced that we are just taking a break, that soon he will call us, and set up another appointment. Denial is a great place to be.
So let's talk about the reason why I had such a dramatic meltdown. Well mostly because I love him, and I know that it's only through the gospel of Jesus Christ that a person can be happy, but also because I knew why he wasn't progressing. It's a reason why all of us don't progress at different times of our lives. Why Junior High was the worst thing of my life it's because he had forgot that the Atonement takes work. It takes work to feel the complete joy that the gospel brings. It takes work to pray every day, to read your scriptures every day, to go to church each week, and it takes even more work when you are working to overcome an addiction. But the fact of the matter is it's worth it! It's worth it to repent so that you can feel completely happy, it's worth it to read the scriptures to receive guidance that Heavenly Father wants you to receive, and it's worth it to pray even for a couple minutes everyday to have the blessings of heaven poured out on you. There are numerous reasons why it is worth it, but mostly it's worth it work hard now so that after this life we will all be completely perfectly happy in the Celestial Kingdom all high fiving. (Is it wrong that the thing I am looking forward most in life is high fiving my converts in the Celestial Kingdom?) LOVE YOU"
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