This weekend was a great weekend! I love
conference:) No matter what I am going through there is always a talk or
something that I need to hear at that time. I hope you all got a chance
to listen to even a little bit of it because it was an amazing
conference! Not only that I got to be blessed with seeing Harriet this
week! She came down for some air force training and came specifically to
Pueblo to be able to have lunch with Sister Horrocks and I. It was
great:) hmm... What else can I tell you about this week. Its been kind
of a weird week in the sense that lots of weird things have happened and
I don't even know how to tell ya'll about them! But I would just like
to talk about how blessed we are to have a living prophet to guide us on
the earth today. I often talk point out to my investigators that yes
the prophet does teach things that to many seem new but they are old
concepts and commandments its just that the prophet interprets how we
should follow them based on our current circumstances. I think my
favorite talk was Elder Hollands talk ... Which isn't a big surprise
because his talks most often rank among my favorites. But, this time
instead relating the topic of depression back to my own past experiences
I was able to see as I was promised when I got set apart, why my brush
with depression had to happen. There are so many people here that I am
able to talk with and teach that maybe I wouldn't have gotten through
with unless I had gone through the things that I have. Currently we have
an investigator fighting this very battle for one of the reasons
mentioned in the talk. He has found himself in a situation where he
wont be able to support his family and it is slowly eating away as him. I
am so glad for prophets, seers and revalators who can talk specifically
to him and all the many others that are having a hard time right now. I
also really liked the talk by Dallin H. Oaks that talked about how even
though laws of man may change it will NEVER change the doctrines of
God. They are the same, yesterday, today and forever. In that we can
find peace because we know who we are and what we are supposed to be
doing in order to gain and inherit eternal life. As long as we are
working and striving to do our best then we are following the Lords
will. In fact one thing that gets talked about a lot here on the
mission is EXACT obedience. This is something that really confused me
because people kept saying it is possible to be exactly obedient and
then they would turn around and point out how we are all human and we
make mistakes. Finally though, I got an explanation on how exact
obedience is possible and that is that we can be exactly obedient in our
desires to do our best and follow Gods will. Yes, we will mess up and
make mistakes but as long as we are going forward with a steadfastness
in Christ and enduring(enjoying) to the end then we are doing what God
desires of us to do. This was a really scatter brained letter, so I'm
sorry but as I said it has been a REALLY weird week and I find that I'm
having a hard time thinking super straight! But I love you all and pray
for you!
Love,
Sister Bice
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