Staying Positive

I have learned over the past few months that your worst enimy that can pull you down is yourself. The only way to make it through in the mission field is to keep a positive attitude. Although, it is true that there are many things that need to change or that you just do not agree with the most important thing is that you do not dwell on them and complain. If anything, you need to see if there is possibly anyway that you can help change them. There are so many struggles as a student missionary that if you do not keep a postive attitude you will have a horrible time. The way I look at it is that we all chose to leave home and come to the mission field and if I am going to chose to hate every moment of it then the whole thing is a waste of time. Plus, keeping a postive attitude makes you feel so much better and after a while you begin to see things in light of your new attitude. All of a sudden everything around you really doesn't look that bad and you are actually enjoying yourself :).