Patience Is A Virtue

Hey everyone!!! Hope you all had a great week! This week was kinda a blur for me. This week we had a lesson with an area seventy who is in our ward, interviews with our mission president, me and my companion taught English class by ourselves, and we met Mallory from Studio C! Overall pretty good week.


So almost every week we have a dinner with this group of old people in our ward. They are the best and it is always one of the highlights of my week. But for some reason the old people have a hard time allowing us to dish up our own food. So, one by one, we hand our plates to the host and she puts everything on our plates for us. She is like 80 so the pace that she is going at is similar to a sloth. By the time we get our food we need to zap it in the microwave. For the entire 10 minutes that it takes for the food to be dished out, it is complete silence because no one can hear anything. This week, after all the food was dished out and after enjoying the sound of silence I was ready to dig in because I was pretty hungry after tracting for a few hours. As I was about to dig in, the person next to me spilt their water into my lap. Luckily there wasn't any ice in it because all the ice melted because it took so long to dish out the food. But I was soaked. The host then stood up and said that she will get me a towel. She was gone for about 15 minutes and I was starting to dry. She then came back and said "I went as fast as I can!" and threw a towel at me. I then dabbed the towel on my dry pants and thanked her. 


This weeks spiritual thought is from Mosiah 3:19 in the Book of Mormon it says "19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father." I love this verse because it tells us who the real enemy is, the natural man inside of us that we came here to learn how to overcome. There is no "us and them" because Jesus overcame "them" (them being the bands of death and the chains of Satan). We are just one big family that are passengers on planet earth being tested. The only way that we can truly overcome the natural man and find joy, is the through the atoning blood of Christ the Lord. As we take His yoke upon ourselves, He will heal our souls and make us into a new creature. Christ is our perfect potter and we are His imperfect clay. He will mold us into what He sees we can become if we let Him and if we love Him.


Pictures
1. Lunch at Northwood Pizza 
2. Mallory from studio C!!!
3. English class
4. Tracting
5. Jesus picture of the week




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