Well, what a great week it has been!!! We defnitely had a couple ups and downs but those are the best because the Lord is teaching us something. We were watching in the Preach My Gospel videos for Comp. Study and ended up at one part where you have a couple missionaries and they just don´t know why everything seems to be going wrong and everyone is falling out...then one of them says that they aren´t really that good with finding...the Lord is hinting at something, I know it. ;) hahaha I´ve learned that a lot of times when things start to suck it´s hard to be sitting there saying, "I love a challenge, I love being thrown to the ground!!" Normally people don´t say that...at least I don´t XD But it does interest me to see the results of what happen when we get back up.
I have started to write down a lot more about the times when I have gotten back up then when I have been knocked down. It´s changed my attitude on a lot of things. I find it so interesting how we so often focus on the things that are going wrong. Kind of hard not to right? It is always a lot easier to pity one´s self and not get back up and get to work than it is to actually do it. I love the quote that says, "I know I didn´t say that it would be easy, just that it would be worth it." I am definitely not the best at looking at a massive mountain covered in thorns, quicksand, sinkholes, and lions that want to eat me and saying "Bring it on," But I have come to respect the fact that I´m not going to learn how to work the spirit and use my priesthood to tame the lions until I am thrown into the den.
I would never recommend to someone to go do things that can eventually hurt us, and make us a bit cynical, or downtrodden along with everything else that can be thrown at us, but luckily we don´t have to...the Lord does it for us ;) Hahahaha. How easy it is to blame someone else for helping us become better than we ever could have been? I sure know it´s easy to look up at the sky sometimes and be like "Why in the world is this happening to me?" But at the end of the day, we can only become better. It´s easy to get comfortable. It´s even easier to not live up to the potential that we know we can reach. The lord knows us better than we know ourselves. I believe in that statement wholeheartedly because he can put me and you into the situations that we would never put ourselves in, because he knows that we can come out on top. As a missionary I have had the chance to receive new insights, see new ways of life, and discover (only a little bit) of just how much I can take. The things that seemed insurmountable yesterday are today´s norm, and in the future they will become child´s play.
I may not have seen the sight of a blind man return to him, that he might look on his daughter´s beautiful face. I may not have seen the dead rise, or the deaf return to hearing, but I have seen the power of the Lord in my life in the little things. Day by day, night by night. Stay positive. Stuff happens. Life wasn´t meant to be perfect, we don´t preach perfection we preach of perfection through Christ. Without him it would never happen. The challenge itself and the goal is to understand him more perfectly so that we might understand more of perfection. As with language or just about anything else, as humans our best means of improving are by copying. Be like Christ, and you will become more Christlike.
Be Charitable and you will receive the gift of Charity. Be humble, and you will receive the gift of Humility. Be Prayerful, and you will receive the Gift of Understanding the Spirit. Serve One Another and you will feel the Love of Christ. Accept the challenges that come, because they will come anyways, and instead of focusing on what might suck switch it up with what´s good. We do the same things out here with our companions. Make the choice, change your attitude, Be what you can BE. Like the great I AM, it is a state just as much as it is a decision. Decide now to be in that state to be like him and you´ll see a different kind of happiness that you may have never seen before.
I bear testimony of that because I have experienced it. Without the Lord I never would have. Keep in touch with him, he is our Father and I know for a fact that there isn´t anyone that loves you more. I love you all and hope that you have a wonderful week!! You´re Awesome!!
Elder Lee
Here we are for Transfer Calls haha Pace Family took us for an Awesome P-Day activity. Loved it. The plate of food was as big as my forearm. Gained 4 pounds after that experience...I´m sure that isn´t healthy. I sure felt terrible the next morning.
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