Come Unto Christ

Sometimes I sit down at the computer and forget what I even did this week. haha Ridiculous I know! Maybe it comes with old age but I will just say that it is because of my busy crazy mission life that just keeps getting busier. This week we had interviews with President! I love interviews! I don't know why I never take very long. This time was a little bit longer. I had shared something with him I learned about myself in one of my emails to him and he asked me about it. I can't remember what I said but I basically talked about how I expect myself to do everything perfectly by myself. I come to realize that, that is not the way to go about things. One of my friends told me that not letting others serve me was kind of an act of selfishness. Interesting eh? I think that he was right. Anyway here on the mission I just have expect to learn and do things for myself and by myself. I mean take Spanish for example. I do appreciate the help when I want it but when I don't... well I just get frustrated. But I have realized (especially with Spanish) I can't do it on my own. I need help. President shared two scriptures with me that he wanted me to study. One is found in Matthew 5:48 or 3 Nephi 12:48. It says "Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect." The second scripture is found in Moroni 10:32-33 it says "32- Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God. 33- And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot." The part that he wanted to remember was that we are only perfected as we come unto Christ. As I studied the scriptures he gave me I found in the footnotes the word "teachable". I was really interested to see this because I have been wanting to be a "teachable" missionary ever since this zone conference where we talked being a preach my gospel missionary. One of the missionaries met with the head guys from Salt Lake and after 3 days of being with them they asked "is there anything else we can do?" the gentlemen looked at him and said "Elders are you teachable?" They replied "yes" and were taught the last few things before he returned back to Salt Lake. I think if I am not teachable I am not progressing. Wow that is a whole other interesting point. The words "Not progressing" as a missionary usually means you have an investigator that is not doing anything to move towards Christ. I am going to have to think about that this week. Well also this week we help the Elders move. They now live across the street from us. Which makes it nice cause they take our bikes home for us a lot. We also had a thanksgiving activity. It was awesome SO many members brought there friends. I think everyone had a ton of fun! There was a ton of food! Elder Lowry made the comment to me that after being in Spanish work for so long it is going be hard to go back. He is right! Spanish activities are so great! I will miss Spanish work! Well I love you all! Until next week!