11/14/2020 - Doctrinally Obsessed

hey yall! I am truly in shock. How do I have one more week in the MTC?! This is going by way too fast! I LOVE being a missionary. It's that simple. It is the best thing I could do for myself. You hear all the time how hard missions are but you don't understand until you are set apart. Satan has a target on your back. But you fiercely say "Not Today". If you need a bomb song to bring you up when you're feeling down: Get Behind Me Satan - Lyrical Lively. Go check it out. 

 I wish I had more to share for my second week. My ABSOLUTE favorite part of being a missionary is teaching God's children. I love watching the wheels turn in their head as we explain the true doctrine. We had the opportunity to teach quite a few people (they are advising that we don't call them investigators). These people are so open to the gospel. I wish I could stay in the MTC and follow through with them and their goals. I know they feel the spirit. Now just to act on Faith. I love being able to open my mouth and the spirit seems to speak right out of me. After each lesson I just sit there stunned. Every minute of every day, look to be taught. AH IT'S JUST SO COOL! 

 I think my favorite book in the Book of Mormon is Mosiah. I am just loving this book. Chapters 3-4 this week just hit me so good. What a wonderful day it must have been to hear from a prophet's voice that Christ shall come and redeem them! I love how immediate they were to rejoice. It is what I want to share; the good news of the Lord. This quote was shared in one of my classes. As I am a missionary, I hope to be able to say these will be my words. This is my goal. Hold me to it. "I am part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made; I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won't look back, let up, slow down, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure. I'm finished and done with low living, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tinted visions, worldly talking, cheap giving, and dwarfed goals. I no longer need preeminence, positions, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I don't have to be right, first, recognized, praised, regarded, or rewarded. I now live by faith, lean on His presence, walk with patience, am lifted up in prayer, and labor with power. My face is set, my goal is heaven. My road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, divided or delayed, will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table with the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity. I won't give up, shut up, or let up until I have stayed up, stored up, and paid up for the case of Christ. I must go till He comes, give till I drop, preach till all know, and work till He stops me and when He returns for His own, He will have no problem recognizing me”. - Elder Henry B. Eyring Thank you for all your prayers. I feel them. Stay safe and go read your scriptures

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