missions are not always easy/progress vs. perfectionism

Last week was a little tricky. In one day I saw three hermanans who were having  difficulties. It began when two elders were asking for the doctor. I knew Dennis was headed out to teach his health class so I  told them to have the brother in reception call the doctor.  In the meantime  Sister Call and I headed up to see the hermana who had collapsed and was crying in front of her classroom. Her teacher said she was an excellent student and had no problems.  He didn't know why she would be breaking down at that point.  We took her in the golf cart to the clinic where she again collapsed before we could get her to to the bed.  As it turns out she is a perfectionist and feels like she has to do everything perfect.  If she falls short of that or things are not in her control it really wears on her physically and mentally.  That was the case this time. She was struggling to keep up on all the language learning and the conditions at home with her family.  She was also distressed that her sister who was pregnant  but not married had an abortion. She wanted to let the child be born.
Then there was the dear hermana who keeps fainting for no reason that we can figure out.  We were first called to her classroom by her teacher.  This sister was on the floor having bumped her head after fainting.  She did this the next night also and a couple of times there after.  It drains everything out of her and leaves her shaking.  Dennis said her vegas nerve triggers a reaction that causes the vessels to open, the blood to drain and she falls to the floor.  We have sent her to the hospital and have had lab work done but can find no medical problem to pin this on.  Dennis told me that this happened to him as a young boy where he fell off a cliff and bumped his head.  Thereafter every time he tripped  or started to fall he fainted.  He told the sister she would have to grow out of it.  Dennis continued  to faint in certain situations even as an adult.  Unless this sister is somehow able to control the fainting she will not be able to serve.  She is weak and has to be supported by her companion as they walk.  We never know when she is going to faint.  She is very subject to fainting when having injections or giving blood.  When we sent her to the lab for blood work we prepared her to lay down or do what ever she could so as to faint easy and not fall to the floor or bump her head.  Amazingly she did not faint.  When she came back from the lab I was going to take her home in the golf cart as she was so weak.  As we were just standing there with keys in hand and ready to go she fell to the floor after fainting.  Thus  dear sister wants to serve  a mission and I surely hope she can.

Later that day we had another call.  A teacher asked if two hermanas were in the clinic because they were not in the classroom.  Dennis and I went to their casa.  I went in and talked to herman "A" who was laying in bed crying while her companion read the scriptures to her.  She said she just couldn't keep up with the Spanish coming at her day after day.  She was crying and not able to focus.  She had decided to go back to her casa and take a little time to sleep and pull herself together.
After these three incidents in one day we had a lesson on mental health and particularly perfectionism in the senior couples FHE that night by our mental health professionals at the CCM.  Their main point was to strive for progression and no perfection and in everything we do communicate that to the missionaries.  Progress not perfectionism that is the goal.  Perfectionism make you feel awful and that is what Satan wants.  He wants you to feel awful, like you want to quit and go home.  Then he would have won the battle with that individual.