This week has been freezing!!!.... And I
mean that, we had two days were the weather didn't get above the single
digits!! In fact one morning Sister Soliven and I got up and got to the
car to go exercise and we looked at the temperature and it was only 1
degree outside!! Brrr!!! Then to top it all off my Temple Jubilee almost
got canceled because the roads were so bad. Luckily they got cleared up
and I was able to go! But, other than being freezing cold and unable to
feel my fingers most of the week it has been a great week! Thursday I
got to go up to Denver and go to the temple for my Jubilee or my halfway
point. It was so wonderful! It has been forever since I have had a
chance to go to the temple!! It was such a good experience to be there
and to feel the peace that comes from being inside the temple walls. Or
even just from being on the grounds! I was so happy to be there. Then
the rest of the week was missionary work like usual... Which is always
the best! Even in this cold we were loving the opportunity to go out and
work! But, I came across a scripture I that really stood out to me this
week. It is in Mormon 9:31 and it is Moroni speaking "31 Condemn me not
because of mine imperfection, neither my father, because of his
imperfection, neither them who have written before him; but rather give
thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections,
that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been." I really like this
because it doesn't only apply to the writers of the Book of Mormon. So
very many times on my mission I have come across people who are not
attending church because they have been offended by the people there. Or
they don't like Mormons because they are 'hypocrites'. But, like in
Elder Uchdorfs most recent talk in conference he pointed out that if we
define hypocrite as someone who doesn't live up exactly perfectly to all
of their beliefs then we are all hypocrites. No one is or can be
perfect in this life. That is why I really liked that scripture. Here we
have a prophet of the Lord asking us to no condemn the word of God
because of his imperfections, but rather to look at doctrine. Everyone
of us makes mistakes and if we only look at the mistakes then there will
be volumes and volumes of things that we can nit-pick at. But!
Something that stood out to me in church yesterday was that the lady who
was speaking in sacrament had a journal that she kept of all the nice
things her children did for her or others. She pointed out that if she
had written all the nasty rotten things her kids had done over the years
she could fill volumes but that she had made a decision to focus on the
good things that they had done rather than the bad. I really liked
that. Sometimes I find that I tend to see the small things that irk me
and just get on my nerves. But, when I pay attention to the things that
are good and take my focus of all the things that can bug me, then I am
so so so much more happy! On that note I will let you all go!
I love you, stay safe and stay warm!!
Love,
Sister Bice
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