On Altoids, Commitments, and Keeping Your Eye on the Prize

Elder Griffiths at a recent district training meeting.

Keeping an eye single to the glory of God can be very difficult. I struggle with this pretty much every day and I think everyone does.

Basically, we can keep our eyes on God by living as he has commanded us to live. When we walk toward a mountain (of which there are none in Florida), the closer we get, the more of our field of vision the mountain takes up. Soon, when we are close enough, the mountain is all we can see. I think this is the way it works when we live the commandments. We keep making steps towards God and eventually our eyes can't help but be single to his glory.

To me it also has a lot to do with hope. Having your eye on the prize allows you to believe in good things to come and focusing on God can dispel the doubt and fear in our lives.

I hope some of these thoughts are coherent and I hope you all have a great week!  

Missionaries being taught an object lesson by Elder Griffiths and Elder Stuart at the district training meeting. Each missionary committed to keep an altoid on his/her forehead. The altoid represented pointless commitments requested of investigators, and illustrated that while the commitment was technically being kept, it served no real purpose. The lesson focused on why it is important to have investigators make meaningful commitments.

Shortly after this district training meeting, Elder Griffiths was made a district leader.