Lieve Familie,
Before I get started here I just want to thank you all for the letters, emails,
and support I receive. Seriously I miss you fam and love you so much. You are
all so inspiring and amazing and have all had a huge impact in my life. I am so
grateful and just thinking about you all makes me realize just how blessed I am
and how much I truly truly do love each and every one of you. LOVE YOU GUYS
SOOOO MUCH!
Well what a week it has been.
It has been a great week, a week that just seemed to fly right by!
It was lots of work and just busy
busy busy! I was only in Eindhoven 2 out of the 5 days during the week,
one of the days being last Monday (p-day) so I spent a majority of my time once
again working in other cities and with other missionaries. It has been a great
experience and I truly do love it. It is hard to be away and I find myself
sooooo tired and exhausted, but it is great to be there for someone who is in
need. It’s so important to just stay positive and happy in this life- especially
when the weather just keeps getting colder and colder and more miserable. The
only thing you ever have in control of is how you ACT and your attitude. So I
am grateful that I choose to be grateful and positive no matter how cold or
rough it gets. :)
This last week I’ve
learned a lot. A lot about Christ, forgiveness, attitude, judging others,
seeing the good in others, and etc. It truly is amazing at just how much you
can learn every single week from being on a mission. Amazing because everyday
you pretty much do the same work/same things (knock on doors, teach the Gospel,
talk to people on the street, etc), but everyday is different and there is a
lesson to be learned at every turn you make. It is very much like life. For
most of us we actually fall into a sort of routine of doing the same basic or
common things daily such as chores, work, going to the gym (I hope), school,
homework, etc. and it just becomes our “normal life”. That’s great because were
all staying busy in doing good and helping others, but I just hope (this goes
for myself also) that we are learning the lessons that we need to learn while
doing so. This last week it happened to me and I felt like I learned the
lessons I needed to learn while fulfilling my chores/responsibilities as a
missionary. But it happened to me in a way where I wasn’t taught by another
missionary or person, but rather, I was taught by the Holy Ghost. As I really
look back on my last week, I can really see where the spirit taught me valuable
lessons. The scripture in Alma chapter 37 always comes into my mind when I
think about this...
Verse 36: “Yea,
and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be unto the
Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let
all thy thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy
heart be placed upon the Lord forever”
Verse 37: “Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings,
and he will direct thee for good.....”
The parts that I have highlighted
always stick out to me because Alma is telling us to always have the Lord with
us and in everything we do. In other words you could say, he is telling us to
always have the Spirit with you. The Holy Ghost is the greatest teacher and
will teach you all things in a way so that you will be able to understand and
HE will always “Direct thee for good”. So as we go about doing our
daily chores, work, school, and everything else we do.. Let us all strive to do
better at keeping Him close by us and being open for him. He will teach us
valuable lessons and helps us to become better people. I love the quote from
Elder Bednar regarding the teachings of the Gospel..
“In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to
know something, The Gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something.”
I absolutely love that quote and hope
that we can all realize the importance of making daily or weekly progress of
becoming something. Becoming someone better than who we were yesterday.
Becoming better people! After all that is what the Gospel teaches us and
challenges us to become. I hope I can also do the same!!
Family I love you all so much and
miss you guys like crazy! I must say though that I love my mission and I am so
grateful that I still have time to learn and to grow and to be out here. Time
to finish Strong and to ENJOY TO THE END!
LOVES!
Big Dude!
Pics: At the car wash!!
Beautiful
drives!
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