Hey everybody!
I hope your week's are going well! Mine
went great and we've
been having a ton of fun recently!
We had a lesson with I san this week and there were
some good points about it, and some not so good points about it. So I'll start
with the good points. And then put the not so good point in, and then go back
to the good points! ;) So he says he wants to get baptized at some point and
really thinks it's needed. He also believes in God and the Spirit and knows
what they feel like and understands them. He still doesn't quite believe in
Christ and he wants to decide his own baptisimal date so that dropped, but he's
still a strong investigator. Also he watched The Testaments with a member and
enjoyed it and felt the Spirit. He's now reading the Book of Mormon for the
second time, and is reading the bible as well! And basically from the lesson,
we got a lot of direction on how to really help him, so it was good in the end.
We prefer that he tells us the problems he's having than not saying anything so
we can actually help him.
We also have been getting a ton of stuff done here in
Honbu. I've found that I basically know the Recorder job inside and out, so I'm
making a few special projects to make it easier for future recorders and help
the mission run better! So it's always fun to do stuff like that cause I feel
like I'm helping things out more than usual.
Recently in my study, I've been thinking about true
happiness. You know, "what is it?" "How do I get it?" and
stuff like that. And After thinking about it for a while and studying the
scriptures, I've found that we really feel happy, really feel joy, after
overcoming a trial in our lives. You've probably heard the whole, the deeper
your sadness and pain, the greater your capacity for happiness and joy is. Well
it's the same thing. So in order to truly feel happy we need trials to
overcome. So in order to get trials, we need to pray to God for trials. So
everyone says pray for trials. And I used to think "What? Why would I want
to pray for trials? It just seems like the opposite thing of what I would
want..." But now I realized, that if we pray for trials, we're praying for
happiness. Not that trials are happy, but it gives us an opportunity to rely on
God, overcome our trials, and increase our capacity for happiness which makes
us even happier than we could imagine. So I thought that was interesting, and
thought I should share. Just remember to enjoy the fun stuff that you've got
while you have the trial. If you don't do that, you won't be happy. Not
everything can be wrong at once. It's impossible because we have the true
church in our lives. And that can never be wrong.
Love you all lots! Have an amazing week, and I'll talk
to you soon!
Elder Bickel
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