Hello hello hello. This week has been a very humbling experience. And I had only realized that yesterday during church. I assume a lot of you are aware of the recent struggles that I have had in the field and outside of the field. And as I fasted yesterday, my purpose was to feel peace and comfort with the trials that I have had. During sacrament meeting I felt prompted to open my scriptures. And what I happened to turn to was Romans 8:31 - "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" That hit me pretty hard. God has been putting all of these things in my life because he wants me to turn to him, to let him guide me so that I can strengthen my relationship with him. And I realized that I have been selfish. Blaming others for these internal battles that I was making worse on my own. That I wasn't allowing God's will be my will. And as I understood that, I felt an incredible feeling of peace and comfort. Exactly what I had been fasting for. Knowing that as we let God "be for us," as we let him refine us, bend us, with these trials that we have on Earth, and learn from them, nothing can stop us from being our full potential. And I love that.
There is a super awesome Mormon message about that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DIIgm6xABQ
Other than that not a whole lot has been going on. I can testify as a disciple of Jesus Christ that the church is true, the book is blue and Jesus is a mormon.
Talk to you next week.
Love always,
Elder Miles