“Serving with a missionary Heart”

How did NSTP affect my life? Such a silly question when I first heard it. I really don’t know how to answer that in multiple sentences. But my mind of one word “PATIENCE”.

I’ve work for about three months in the office mingling with different people with different folks of life. I did work that somewhat new to me. I worked two months as a clerical staff. At first it really tests my courage to continue pursuing my job, since then I start saying to myself that I wouldn’t be here if not for something. I pursue despite many things that pushes me not to. I thought of reasons why should I stay, one most important thing is that I know that this NSTP apostolate will help me grow into a better me in time. After about five months, spending about almost one hundred hours this semester, finishing my apostolate proved me that reasons.

It will really test how far would you go for something you are uncertain of. It will test your courage on how you will balance your life with your studies and your work as a student doing your apostolate. It will measure how you are willing to sacrifice, time, and effort for deed that others might not understand. It will certainly answer a lot of questions that involves people, which involves life. It will test your patience how far can you go on life itself. Now, I’m realizing that NSTP is not just a mere course in college to take up for you to graduate. But it is a concrete training ground of the world itself. Because it will help you learn lessons the hard way. It will help you lessons learned and applied at once. It will help you learn lessons you can use throughout you life. I could say it wasn’t meant to be a mere course; it came as a course to stand with a purpose. And that purpose depends on how you handle everything.

I have a vision of what I really want in my life, I passed the test of an apostolate that I will surely say and proved that “Serving with a missionary heart” . I helped. I learn. I’m happy seeing and feeling that I learned a lot, I touched , and in some way I transformed lives. And in doing such all you need are FAITH, LOVE for your work and so much PATIENCE.