I've been thinking a lot about obedience. We have some missionaries who are so obedient they come close to being perfetto (perfect). Other missionaries really struggle with making right choices. They don't seem to understand that obedience brings blessings and they can't understand why things aren't going the way they think they should.
It reminds me of a game called jenga that we played with our children and often used as object lessons for various things. The object is to pull a wooden block out of the stack until the entire stack collapses and falls. You can usually pull a block or two out and nothing happens, but eventually if enough blocks are pulled out, the entire stack will come tumbling down.
That's the way it is with obedience. You might be able to get away with doing one or two things wrong, but eventually your whole world falls apart and you tumble. It's difficult to pull yourself together and start over at that point. Hopefully, nothing else is injured from the collapse and doesn't topple, too.
A block with no missing parts is solid. When missionaries are obedient, they are solid just like a jenga block. Our goal is to help each of our missionaries become solid, faithful, obedient servants ready to do the Lord's work in Italy and "bring other's unto Christ."
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