She needs to sort out her priorities...1/19/2015

-Well put Ron

Friday was our interviews with the Mission President, President Taylor, so he can see how we're doing and know if there is anything he can help us with in our goals we are setting individually. My favorite part was during the meeting with all the missionaries and the training we received. It helped me to understand the importance of setting goals. Before my mission I had no desire to set goals or see what use they were. I never thought you needed goals because I thought if you want to do something then you just do it. Oh my teenage brain! It was unaware that if you actually set goals, follow through and do, you can accomplish awesome things! Now I know why they matter and how they actually help in doing things you never imagined you could do.

During our meeting with the missionaries in our area we counseled together on the things we wanted to accomplish. Or to put in terms that helped me: to start with the end in mind. We set out how much we could do as companionships in our different areas and compiled how much we could contribute to one specific goal. I now understand that when a group of people, or a church, have one goal in mind there is unity and peace that comes very easily especially when we each do our part. Just like any game, like baseball or football or kickball, when the players do their part the team with the most unity takes the lead.

Something else I’ve seen that has blown my mind is probably the simplest thing we can do to be successful in anything and that is the amazing magical-ness of organizing my Priorities. Priorities are to focus on what matters most. Just like what President Thomas S. Monson said!

Higher priorities were amazingly what I was lacking for the past few weeks when I put organizing my desk higher then writing in my journal or was getting a snack higher then finishing up my reading in the Book of Mormon. It would really make me feel like even though I did get something done I didn’t feel like I accomplished that much and it was draining.

So for now my priorities are as follows:

1. God

2. My Mission

3. Family/friends

I hope that this order doesn’t change in the future and It’s like a weight that has been lifted of my shoulders now that I know to ‘whom I serve’, because the way I see it with God as my first priority I always know the others will be okay.

Loving and prioritizing, Sister Baker