Peaches << (iykyk)

Hey friends and fam! Hope all is well with you! Not a whole lot has happened this week but I will give you the rundown! 


(Sick Comp) 
At the start of this week, my comp was sick so we stayed inside so which sucked. There was nothing to do. After cleaning the house 3 times and listening to the same 20 talks on repeat I just decided to go to bed for the day! 


(Walking Life) 
Not having a car is different. It's not hard it's just different. We see a lot of interesting things as we walk through the "Projects of Spokane" We have gotten good at running to appointments! I don't think my comp likes it but running builds character and I got 6 months to tell sexy so I need a little running in my life


(Shooting Peaches)
Sheesh as we were walking home and there were some brethren on top of an apartment building shooting stuff with pellet guns. As they saw us walking they started shooting at the stop signs and trees next to us. I was thinking about giving them a bird to shoot as well but I figured that's a bad way to represent Jesus Christ. So instead I started to take off my belt to see if they were good enough shots to hit the moon but then I figured that's also not a very good way to represent Jesus Christ... It was pretty annoying but I figured it was probably something I would have done before I met Jesus. Everyone, please pray that they meet Jesus! 


(Sick Me)
I think because I teased my comp so much about being sick God thought it would be funny to keep me up all night throwing up everything I have ever eaten on my whole mission. Like I don't know how I threw up so much but I probably could have filled the bathtub. I didn't like the throwing up part but after 2 days of not being able to keep anything down I could start to see my 6 pack again so that was awesome!


(Spiritual Thought) 
This week we had the opertunity to go out with one of our recent converts. He talked of some struggles he has had as a new convert of the Church! He talked about the weight he felt from Satan trying to prevent him from rigorously living and keeping the commandments! 
The next day I was studying the talk by Elder David A Bednar called "Bear Up Their Burdens with Ease". In this talk he stated. "But we also need to appreciate that the Lord desires, through His Atonement and by the power of the Holy Ghost, to live in us—not only to direct us but also to empower us!"
A couple days later as I sat in sacrament meeting that quote had great meaning to me as I watched that same new convert bless the sacrament. Through the spirit, that was carried by his voice as he spoke the sacrament prayer, I realized that the Lord didn't only atone for our sins but the Lord atoned to "empower us" from our sins. The atonment of the Lord "empowered" our recently converted friend this week and gave him the strength to not only be forgiven for his mistakes but to completley and faithfully beat them with an eye of hope! 
Because of this "empowement" brought by the Saviors atonement, our friend was able to worthly blessed the sacrament for our congregation. 
I guess the the point im looking to get to is the atonment truly can "empower" us, our friends, family and loved ones as we are dealing with struggles. Elder Holland invites us to learn "FIRST of repentance and the atonement", because when we understand the "empowement" that comes from the atonment we can truly get through anything! 


(Finally)
Finally if you need anything hit me up! 


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