Hey all!
This week, a whole lot of stuff happened. Like a lot. I'm short on time (again) so I'll just jump right into it:
- General Conference! We watched one session with our friend Eduardo and his family and the rest with various church members in our area and it was a blast. Some themes I noticed were viewing life with an eternal (cough cough celestial cough) perspective, how listen to the Holy Spirit and feel it stronger in your life, and being brothers and sisters in our Savior Jesus Christ. My personal favorite line comes from Elder Henry B. Eyring's talk, "Our Constant Companion," on how we can feel guidance from the Holy Spirit more strongly and consistently:
"The key for me and for you is to want what the Savior wants. Our motives need to be driven by the pure love of Christ. Our prayers need to be 'All I want is what you want. Thy will be done.'"
- Transfer calls! This time around, I'm...training!? That's right, folks. Elder Cebollero just got promoted to Zone Leader in the Mountain Home Arkansas area while I stay here in the Bentonville First Ward to train a new missionary named Elder Kemp starting tomorrow! Yes, the Padawan has become the Jedi Master, but something tells me I'm going to learn a lot about humility this transfer...so send some prayers our way, yeah? I know everything will work out if we just follow Christ as best we can, get out of the apartment, and just go crazy. Whether or not we know what we're doing, hard work is still hard work. God will still accept our offering. I know we're gonna see some crazy cool stuff these next few months.
Fun stuff this week:
- moved furniture for a nice lady who got a frontal lobe lobotomy about thirty years ago. She was wonderfully unique.
- I decided I like sleeping on the floor more so I moved my bedframe out and just sleep futon style on my mattress. Floor gang.
- Youth Missionary Night: the ward put on a missionary activity for all the under-eighteen youth because they're awesome so we basically just got to talk about why we chose to serve a mission and testify for like 45 minutes.
- Got a flu shot, then spent 15 minutes feeling for a lego robin hood minifigure at the Walmart pharmacy.
Thought:
D&C 112:10.
"Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers."
Simple as that.
For a deep dive into what exactly humility is, try listening to this talk from last week's General Conference by Elder Joni L. Koch
Love you all! Still working on those responses, so thanks for being patient with me. Elder Rigby out.
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