Monday, January 26, 2015

Transfer 11 Week 3



How do I sum up the week in the ten minutes I have left on the computer? Well. It just can't be done. I'll tell you the highlights. We went on exchanges to Gallup and spent the weekend with a couple of very blonde but extremely amazing Sister Missionaries. We rode bikes and I was 200% sure that I was going to die from breathing too much fresh air.
Sister Johnson and I shared a fun moment just laughing. For the very first time we laughed together. Apparently pepper makes her hiccup. She is a very sophisticated person so her hiccuping set me off giggling. "STOP!" I yelled at her. "I DEMAND THAT YOU CEASE THIS INSTANT." She started giggling. And through her giggling she says, very matter of factly
"It's- HICC- spasms of- HICCUH- the vagus nerve!"
I laughed even harder.
The greatest miracle this week is not anything that happened involving the work, but more the things I've seen changing and growing within our companionship. The great miracles are happening as we change our hearts and seek God's will. The great miracle of a mission is not just the things that happen around you, but what happens inside of you. And really, that's the great miracle of life itself and everything we experience in it.
I love you all.
Sorry this is so short.
We'll be in Farmington till Friday.
xoxoxxo

And to make up for my lack of words, here's my main man Benson:
God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble or we can be compelled to be humble. Alma said, “Blessed are they who humble themselves without being compelled to be humble.” (Alma 32:16.)

Let us choose to be humble.

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. (See D&C 38:24; D&C 81:5; D&C 84:106.)

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. (See Jacob 4:10; Hel. 15:3; D&C 63:55; D&C 101:4–5; D&C 108:1; D&C 124:61, 84; D&C 136:31; Prov. 9:8.)

We can choose to humble ourselves by forgiving those who have offended us. (See 3 Ne. 13:11, 14; D&C 64:10.)

We can choose to humble ourselves by rendering selfless service. (See Mosiah 2:16–17.)

We can choose to humble ourselves by going on missions and preaching the word that can humble others. (See Alma 4:19; Alma 31:5; Alma 48:20.)

We can choose to humble ourselves by getting to the temple more frequently.

We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God. (See D&C 58:43; Mosiah 27:25–26; Alma 5:7–14, 49.)

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, submitting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives. (See 3 Ne. 11:11; 3 Ne. 13:33; Moro. 10:32.)

Let us choose to be humble. We can do it. I know we can.

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