Could you be doing something better?

We have "greenie" from Cache valley, delightful man and an eager missionary.   I was telling the elders that I was reading a 5 book series on my Kindle and the series was becoming increasingly violent and while it was a fictional novel it was not appropriate for me a missionary to be reading.  
stop reading this series without finishing the plot.  I told them how I struggled to pick up the book even after I committed to myself I would stop reading it.  It took 3 days of inner struggle before it stopped popping into my head.  (Yes, I am a book loving senior missionary who sometimes reads a novel for pure reading enjoyment).

But my "Greenie" told me his story....  prior to my mission he said I was hanging out playing "something? ( he thought I would recognize but I didn't; and it wasn't applicable to the story anyway) and a priesthood leader called him and asked him "what are you doing?"     Honest young man that he is said ...  "I'm playing..."   and his leader said simply   "Is there something better you could be doing?"

Powerful lesson in that simple question....   

Yes, I stopped the series mid book, yes the desire to "complete" the storyline stopped pestering me as well.   After all there are better things for me to read.