Hello!
Halfway through the cycle already, eh? Well May brought some nice showers
for us today. Walking to pick up some pictures with Elder Richards at CVS, I
got soaked. I didn't think it was going to be raining too bad but it got pretty
bad while we were inside. But yeah the weather is nice right now, so hopefully
it doesn't get terribly hot too soon...
This past week wasn't terribly exciting. We taught some lessons, but the
people we're working with are either new or not progressing. Tuesday was great,
though! It was kind of a double whammy of out pouring of the Spirit of the
Lord. I was on an exchange with Elder Lartey, one of the Zone Leaders and at
the same time we had a Zone Conference. Between talking to Elder Lartey
throughout the day and taking everything in at the Zone Conference, I was
spiritually exhausted (but teaching and doing everything in English was nice for
a change). One thing that President Morgan is emphasizing is the Doctrine of
Christ, or essentially applying the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to
our lives. As missionaries, we essentially are inviting and helping people to
apply the Gospel of Jesus Christ to their lives as they develop faith in Christ,
repent and change of their old ways to live in harmony of the teachings of
Christ, are baptized and cleansed, receive the gift of the Holy Ghost to help
them to keep going forward and then help them to develop habits to always follow
Christ until they're accepted into His kingdom. As we teach that, we really
need to be living that too. We need to be studying, praying and going to church
to receive revelation to increase our faith to the point that we want to change.
We then repent of the things we're doing wrong according to this greater light
we've received. We then recommit ourselves to following Christ as we renew our
covenants with the Sacrament each week. That's followed by the sanctification
by the Holy Ghost, which leads us to more faith and light on how we can change,
and the cycle keeps going. Enduring to the end consists of constantly striving
to make this cycle an active part of your life. I believe a lot of times we
kind of do it automatically, but as we take the time to consciously recognize
it, we can even better apply it and gain a vision of how much the gospel really
means to us. President Morgan has encouraged us to better apply the Gospel of
Jesus Christ to our lives so that we can teach with more conviction. I know
that as I've better understood it, I've been that much more grateful and happy
and in a disposition to share it with others. So check it out! Read 2 Nephi 31
or 3 Nephi 27. Learn, live, become!
Things are going well! The mission is super humbling. I've felt lower
than dirt about four times in the past three weeks. But with all the downs,
come ups that make the downs look like nothing, so it's all worth it! I know
what I'm doing is what the Lord wants me to do and if anybody reading this is
unsure about missionary service- do it! You won't regret it.
I hope you all have a great week! And happy Mothers Day coming up! That
should be good!
-Elder Griffiths
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