Information leads to Inspiration

Serving as mission leaders, our time is planned around a “transfer cycle” of 6 weeks or 42 days to be precise.

This last transfer cycle has been unquestionably the most active of our mission thus far.

With mission conferences, meetings, travel, tours and sadly a period of sickness this transfer, time was always, extremely precious.

During the transfer, every missionary has a 1-1 interview.

Each interview provides us with good information.

In preparation for the next transfer cycle, I’d normally sit down about 10 days in advance to pause, reflect and study things out in my mind, all of the necessary moves required to accommodate the arrival of new incoming missionaries.

This transfer was different.

New arriving missionaries weren’t confirmed until very late in the process, plus with only 5 days left in the transfer cycle, we were still completing the last of our interviews.

Subsequently, the information gathering process was hampered.

This last week, we met together to review the transfer moves and did our best to complete the exercise of new assignments and moves.

Admittedly, we felt a little discomfort, that stretched our spiritual capabilities.

Life has taught me that you cannot force or compel spiritual things, you just have to let things develop, nurture them, and allow them to grow in their own time.

A couple of days later (Friday, only 2 days ago) interviews were completed.

And then I stopped to really 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏.

As yet I still don’t fully comprehend the working or wonder of it all, but pausing once more and studying it out in my mind again, vivid impressions came.

I wrote out the thoughts, noted my feelings and followed through with the actions I was prompted to take.

Reassignments and moves for the next transfer cycle were completed and shared yesterday.

My experience is simply this…

I have complete confidence now, that good inspiration can only come from good information.

How does good information, help your inspiration?