Finish!

As a missionary for the LDS church, we leave our families, friends, homes and hobbies for a 24 month period to go and share the good news! I now have 1 month left. When missionaries get close to finishing their service they can get what is called "Trunky". Home becomes a distraction, motivation lacks, and the cruise control button goes on!

It doesn't just happen on the mission either. There are many things in life that require hard work all the way through. Did you make new years resolutions? Does the word Senior-itis sound familiar? How much of your high school Spanish do you remember? Can you still play those songs you learned on the piano?

There are many opportunities wasted when we don't endure to the end. Here is a poem I recently memorized to help me finish strong.

 Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you;                                   

Beginners are many, but enders are few.

Honor, power, place and praise

Will always come to the one who stays.

 

Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you;

Bend at it, sweat at it, smile at it, too;

For out of the bend and the sweat and the smile

Will come life’s victories after a while.

—Author Unknown