Shout out to myself for my birthday.
Also shout out to my Grandma, Britt and Cam, and Hadley who
all sent me Dear Elders this week.
Had typhoon Luis this week. It wasn't too bad, but we still
weren't allowed to leave the apartment. So after church we just sat on our
porch and watched the wind and the rain. It was pretty cool. The church was
also open all night for the families who didn't feel safe in there house, but
from what we saw this morning it doesn't look like there was much damage. It
sucks though, because even if there was damages, we wouldn't be able to help,
because of safety reasons. Like if there was a fallen power line or something.
So I'm going to try to upload some more pictures. Mostly of
the kids that live around our apartment. They always come over and hang out
with us after work, or on p-days.
This week we will have our first baptism. Next week we will
have another and then another one the week after. So It's a pretty exciting
time.
My spiritual thought for this week doesn't come from the
scriptures, but is important just the same. Everyone always looks at the world
and themselves through the eyes of other people. People are more concerned with
how they look, how they appear, or how they can make themselves look better to
someone else. Not only is this a completely and utterly incorrect way of
thinking, but it is inevitable destructive. When you are trying to impress
someone by changing yourself you will be working your whole life. When you do
something right most people won't notice, but when you mess up people will tell
you that you are dumb, that you are stupid, or that you have no idea what you
are doing. In Mosiah 4:30 we read 'But this much I can tell you, that if ye do
not watch yourselves, and your thoughts... ye must perish.' We must watch our
thoughts. We must be continually watching our thoughts, watching ourselves. We
must always be lifting ourselves up. We must learn how to find our way back,
because someones not always going to be someone there to lift you up, but if
you can learn how to lift yourself up. If you can learn how to use the
scriptures, learn how to effectively pray, and forget what others think of you,
and "continue in the faith in what ye have heard concerning the coming of
the lord even unto the ends of your lives." It's so important to watch our
thoughts and what we are thinking. When you start thinking negative thoughts,
remember what you have heard about our savior. Remember what he did for us.
Remember that he knows how we feel, and remember how completely pointless it is
to impress these people, but remember who we really need to impress. "O
man, REMEMBER and perish not."
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