The Mission This Past Christmas

Well Everyone, Happy New Year!!!!  This week has been a blast! It's been super fun, lots of games were played. Tons of Laughs were shared and Spirits were enlightened. I'm blessed to have made so many friends up here and to have all of them so close by. Elder Bastian and I had lots of cool conversations about games and some things we used to do and how to help each other out here. My companion Elder Lane does that with all of us every once and a while but I'm just bonding well with Elder Bastian who shares an apartment with me. 

Hope that this next year that we are all blessed to be in that we will take time to reflect on this past year and our spiritual growth and how deep our roots have gotten this past year. I know many of us either make goals for the year and don't keep them or we don't make goals at all because we know we aren't going to keep them. But there is one goal I know that all of us can keep because the Prophets have been telling us and giving us this assignment since the Prophet Joseph Smith, and that goal is Scripture Study. Not just reading them daily but going through and reading to strengthen a certain gospel doctrine principle that we may be lacking. Now I know that all of us have days where we may forget to read or we feel it's too late to read because we put it off till it's too late. But putting of our daily scripture study is denying yourself the blessings that the Lord is ready and willing to give to you, when you open the holy and sacred Book of Mormon. You also need to open your mind and be willing to submit to his counsel and to his will and what he want's you to do. We may not like the answer and counsel that he gives us but we need to give heed to it and follow him. 

We need to more humbly follow him rather than following him because you're following the crowd, or your parents told you to or some other reason. We all need to find our own reason for following his footsteps on the path. We all, as this new two hour church schedule is starting, need to focus on how we are following our Lord and Savior and how you think you can improve. I hope that you will all take this challenge this year to further improve your spiritual growth.

May we all have an amazing week and all build each other up along the way

you are all Fabtabulous, Stay strong, and as always......Stay Beefy

Sincerely,

Elder Wyatt Gatlin