Friday, June 5, 2009

Biggest Loser - Missionary Edition

The daily missionary schedule is quite rigorous:

6:30AM Arise, pray, exercise for 30 minutes and prepare for the day
7:30 Breakfast
8:00 Personal Study: Book of Mormon, other scriptures, Preach My Gospel
9:00 Companionship Study: Practice teaching, confirm plans for the day
10:00 Begin proselyting
2-4PM Daily Break: Come back to apartment to eat, rest, study, phone calls and plan
4:00 Resume proselyting, including teaching as many lessons as possible
9:00 Return home, spend 30 minutes planning for next day, write in journal, pray
10:30 Lights out, go to sleep

And like the movie Groundhog Day, the schedule repeats itself over and over again. But there are surprise blessings along the way.

Elders DeLand, Frisby and Pack all entered the mission field a bit overweight. By following the above schedule, they have lost a combined 215 pounds! They are the current Biggest Losers in the Pennsylvania Philadelphia Mission -- and they look and feel great!


(Weight loss: Elder DeLand-50 lbs; Elder Frisby-100 lbs; Elder Pack-65 lbs)
at 8:04 AM

1 comments:

  1. Congratulations. I hope they picked up new healthy eating habits that they can retain the rest of their lives. Losing weight can be easy. Keeping it off is hard.

    I lost a lot of weight at the beginning of my mission, but as I learned what to eat among all the strange new food (I served a foregin mission), I put most of it back on before I went home.
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