Well everyone, this past week has been a pretty good one. It's kinda been all over the place to be honest but I still enjoyed what I could. Sunday was the first time for the two hour church with the last hour study at home. I really liked it actually, up here we haven't quite got the location figured out yet but we're doing it in the break room as of right now. I really am enjoying the new Curriculum and the spirit it brings into the classes. I like how it's presented more as a discussion rather than a lecture and all of that fancy stuff.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday went by way fast. The Conference Project that my District is working on, (Elder Bastian, Dunn, Lane, and I), is due by the end of February and we are almost done with it. We only have about 10 years left to do. Then we will go back through and check it and make sure that everything is good to go. Saturday my district went on a hike and you have to pass through a dog park to get there but it's still really fun to do it. Every time that we've gone there have been over 12 dogs there. Which seems like a lot but it's a massive park, but the Hike was really good and super fun to go on. I'm glad that we have at least one hike we can go on.
Monday and Tuesday not much actually happened, We just went to zone and gave some tours of the Foundations of Faith Exhibit which is really cool because you get to see the documents that had the original translation on them, and see a history of how the church came about and how the Lord puts his hand in everything that we do. I think it's really important after everyday to take a moment to reflect and try to see the lords hand throughout the day.
Wednesday was Mission Conference and then we had Night Classes that night. Oh my Goodness it was so good! President and Sister Fenn Spoke and had an amazing message on how we need to have more Charity in our lives. Charity is more than love, it's the never ending love that Christ has for each and every one of us. Also that night for night classes Elder Clark (One of the Assistants to the President), had a lesson on repentance and how important it is to not take that for granted and to try daily to improve and not make the same mistakes that we made the day or week previous. No one is perfect but we can all try our best to become an even better Disciple of Christ. It was also stated in one of those meetings that even though all of us don't constantly wear a Missionary name tag with the name Jesus Christ on it, but we all need to take upon us his name and wear it upon our hearts and represent the church and the Lord Jesus Christ better. We may need to make a few changes on how we're acting and how we may be speaking in public because what we say to others can either build up the church or bring it down.
My spiritual thought I have for the week would be this, Imagine a line across a paper. Put Christ on the right side and Satan on the other side. President Fenn and the Assistants have taught us that we need to constantly be aware of what direction we are moving on that line. We are either moving forward or backward, there is no standing still. "There is no Stagnation upon the Line!" as President has stated in previous meetings. Even if we feel like we're standing still, we're going backward because we aren't continuing our climb up towards him. Our progress towards Christ, is like walking upward on a downward escalator. We can't stand still because we will move back ward, It's a constant up hill battle that we are fighting as Disciples of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. As soon as we start to realize that and as soon as we accept that fact, we will soon become better saints in all that we do.
I hope that this week we can all strive to become even better than the person we were years ago and I hope that you all will have a Fabtabulous week!
Stay Beefy!
Elder Wyatt Gatlin
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