Comparing.

    One of the things that has been really hard for me lately is all the missionaries coming home. Especially people from my mission and then they add me as a facebook friend. This is one of the hardest things because I have spent about 8 months trying to forget my mission. I have been trying to only focus on the positive. These missionaries come from serving the entire time. I feel less then them. They are better then me and they were able to stay the entire time out. I wasn't. They have all of these experiences that I have missed they impacted more lives then I did. Helped more people. When these RMs come home it can make the MRRMs feel horrible.
    I have now fallen into a classic pitfall. Comparing. This is one of the worse things anyone can do and it is totally natrual. We compare ourselves to others. They are smarter, more beautiful, and so on.  As I said in "failure" success is personal. If we compare ourselves to others we only set ourselves up for failure. I do not think that God has a chart of us and another person comparing us. God will always look at were we have come. He will not compare us to the Whole Time Return missionaries. (WTRM). Or to the mom who looks like the supper hero. Or the dad that seems to provide everything for his family.
It is important for us to do our best regardless of others. We each have strengths and we each have weaknesses. It is so important for us to stop comparing ourselves to others. It will make us so much happier.