yes, it is an impossible standard to meet. you are never doing/studying/praying/giving enough.
what is REALLY ironic to me though, is that while people like my first husband and i took this admonition so seriously - we really sacrificed in order to be able to pioneer - neither one of our families had much money - we lived meagerly, in a 2 rm. apt. over my worldly alcoholic uncle who had the biggest heart....the elders (let me think back.....) yes ALL of the elders in my cong. had good-paying jobs, they all owned real estate in one of the wealthiest areas of the country.
it was a double standard that i never could understand. why weren't they sacrificing everything and pioneering too??
just one more example of their hypocrisy.