"Thrusteth in His Sickle"

Bryan's weekly email came today. He shared an experience from his mission that I really enjoyed and wanted to share:

"We went and worked in the garden of a person who we met last week. It was more of a forest than a garden though, and she had us use a sickle to cut all the plants down that were overgrown. It was an amazing experience to use a sickle and learn how it works through practice - it gave me a lot of insight to the phrase "thrusteth in his sickle" from D&C 4. The first one is that no matter how hard we tried, we weren't able to cut everything down completely. We would swing and swing the sickle, but there would always be some that were still a little taller than the rest - teaching me that not matter how many times an area has been tracted or how many people have already been talked to, everyone still hasn't heard about the gospel. The next one was that it takes continued effort - diligence. One swing of the sickle didn't make any difference in the big huge field - the only time a difference was seen was after we had been working for a long time. Another thing was that we learned that if we flipped the sickle and cut on the back swing as well then we could cut more quicker, something that most people wouldn't think to do with a sickle, but it improved the efficiency by a lot, showing me that we can always improve our methods of missionary work."