Christmas Time and His Grace
This past week was great in many ways. And I have come to appreciate the hard parts of life.
3rd Nephi 22:7, 8
7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
I think it's so cool that one of the greatest acts of love an all-loving God can give to His children are hardships. If you are a parent, imagine your child going through something hard. You would want to help, right? Well imagine God, everyday, from millions of children asking for help and going through awful things. And sometimes what is best for that child at that time, is to continue through that hardship. Imagine the discipline that takes. God could sweep down and with His angels fix whatever problem is happening. But He lets the trails stay. He loves us too much to save us from everything.
We had a great District Council on Zoom and we talked about the Book of Mormon! It was cool how the Spirit guided everyone's thoughts beforehand and when we all came to the District Council it all came together. Elder Bettinson gave a great spiritual thought on how the Book of Mormon is a miracle and then the Joyo Shimtachi, Sisters Belnap and Rich gave a great training on the Book of Mormon. Such a good District council. Simple, yet, lots of revelation.
We had exchanges that day as well with Elder Matsumoto and Elder Walker! Both are amazing Elders. Elder Matsumoto basically trained me in the Japanese ways and Elder Walker and I had the same MTC time. Different districts, different reassignments, but now we have been together in the Ibaraki District for 3 transfers. That day I went with Elder Walker. We had a lot of great conversations and some good streeting!
Probably the biggest miracle of this week was Sunday. It was a rough beginning. But we had a great Sacrament meeting and we both bore our testimonies. We then talked with tons of members and got some more LINES for future messages. We confirmed some appointments. We then had a meeting with Hiroki Kun's mom and her ministering brother and the Bishop to kind of work out how to help their family. It went great! He should be on track for receiving baptism on the 4th!
We also had a Christmas concert. It was great to see the whole zone and members of my own district. My district is literally the best! On pday we went Christmas shopping which was fun :).
Some time this week. Take 10 minutes and write down what God is teaching you. Doesn't matter if you think He isn't. He is!
Love you all!
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The song below is Elder Walker and I and Sister's Parmley and Rich singing and Sister Belnap at the piano!
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