Blog Conclusion

Serving in the snow on Sakhalin Island.

           This project has been challenging in some ways, but has had great benefits.

            It has been frustrating to me that the project seemed to constantly be evolving.  We started off knowing we need to make a blog and follow five other blogs.  About half way through we found out that we needed to have five followers.  Some people had well over five followers, while others had well under five.  This put the under-followed people in an awkward position of having to ask classmates, who were already following five blogs, to follow their blog also.  At the end of the semester it was implied that a lack of pictures would be detrimental to one's grade.  This evolutionary aspect of the project was really frustrating to me.

            On a positive note, writing this blog has helped me personally.  I dedicated this blog to my younger brother, who recently got his mission call to the Scotland/Ireland Mission.  I wanted to share some missionary experiences and lessons I had learned that I wish I had known at the start of my mission.  At times I have struggled with feelings that I wasn’t a good enough missionary, or that I wasn’t successful enough as a missionary (my efforts were wasted).  Writing this blog has given me an opportunity to reflect on my mission.  Ponder experiences that I have had, lessons I learned, people I helped, and miracles that I saw.  Doing this has helped me to believe that maybe I wasn’t such a failure after all.
            It has also been really cool to read other people's blogs!  I've learned fun things about my class mates that I'm sure I wouldn't have known otherwise.  It has been especially cool to see spiritual sides of people that I haven't seen in class.  

One of my most treasured missionary moments.

            So while there have been frustrating aspects of this project, in the end I think it has really helped me personally, and it has been cool to get to know people in the class better. 
            My intended audience was my younger brother and those about to serve missions, as stated under the blog title.  The required blogs are "Confidently Humble," "The Ethos of Elder Cook," "World of Research," "Ultimate Bonding," and this post.  I would recommend for you "Conquering Doubt With the Shield of Faith," and "Spiritual Insights From Ultimate Frisbee" because they talk about things that have happened this semester, but you can feel free to read any post you want.  If you know anyone that could benefit from anything on my blog, please feel free to use or share any part you want.