My life

Right now in my life, I  have a lot going on. It is so stressful to get things done in my life that it makes it hard to prioritize sometimes. I get distracted by other things, caught up in the things I need to do, or more often than not I just ignore it. My plate is filled with these things:

1. I go to school 4 days a week Monday through Thursday
1. Leading to countless hours of homework, reading, and projects.
2. I work as a Valet on Saturdays 3:30pm-11pm
3. I serve as the Ward Mission Leader in my singles's Ward
1. As such I go out with the missionaries every wednesday
2. I go out to visit members during the week, and try to encourage ward missionaries to do the same
3. I go to ward council and am responsible to help carry out the ward mission plan
4. I serve in the Temple on Fridays from 4-9 but in reality I don't get home until 10 sometimes.

Because of these and probably many other small reasons, I am unable to do all I want, when I want it. Being with friends is difficult because I've got something going on. Dating is near impossible because I have something going on. SOMETHING IS ALWAYS GOING ON!! It's stressful, it's overwhelming, and its not fun. 

I feel like I should have complete control of my life, but because I am stretched so thin, my life is controlling me. In a recent meeting with one of my stake Leaders, I described to him  my busy schedule, and of course I said everything is fine, it's difficult to tell you priesthood leaders that things aren't good -- you just don't want to be a burden. But at any rate,  I told him about my life, and he asked if I'm dating, and i said, "where i can fit it in." He responded that I had to make that a priority in my week. It is the next ordinance that I  am trying to prepare for, but I don't feel like i am at all in a position to do that. I will talk about that in another post. 

All in all the advice he gave me was to cut out things. "For it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength"(Mosiah 4:27). The thing that he advised should be the first thing to cut out is serving in the Temple on Fridays. over the course of the Four months working there, I have come to love serving in the temple as an ordinance worker. I love all the old people I serve with and they love me. It's like I have this vast wealth of knowledge, accumulating into over hundreds of years of experience and they are free to give it. I get advice, knowledge, and fun conversation from them. I love being on the Friday Shift at the temple, and i understand what my stake leader was  telling me, but I still cant find where in my life I can relieve the stress.