Stressful but Still Good

Hello all of you wonderful people!!!! So as the title of the email states....I was a little stressed out this past week just because of things that have happened with my fellow elders and some things that they are going through. But other than that it's been a really good week, Elder Shaw and I have probably died laughing every single night this past week just because we're both having so much fun just doing dumb things because we're stupid....HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Not really though. 

This past week on Thursday, President Fenn had us at his house and we had a Pizza Party! It was super fun and I really enjoyed it. We all made our own individual Pizzas and we all cooked them one at a time in his Pizza Oven outside, (It's a Brick Oven). He had that oven heated way hot to where our Pizza's were cooking in less than a minute. Which was super awesome!!! I would've taken some pictures but I forgot my camera on my desk, when I told myself..."I'm not going to forget it." well............don't think that turned out too well......Oh well.

But I spoke during Monday Morning Devotional yesterday. It was funny though, because they tell you the week before, so you have a while to prepare. But they say, "you have 3 minutes to tell about you and a spiritual experience"  I was like ONLY 3 MINUTES!!!!!! WHAT!!!! So I was jumping around quite a bit. They told us to lean more towards telling us about our life because there's probably a lot more there. So I did what they told me. 

Later that day I taught in District meeting about things that we face in out everyday lives that can cause us to let go of the Iron Rod and go astray a little bit. Also I lead into what Fiery Darts, that I called "Sharks", of the Adversary do we need to most work on and then I went to several scriptures that we can all use to help us understand what things we can do and things that we can all work of doing to improve and allow us to move forward towards the Love of God, which is the Tree of Life. 

Spiritual Thought: So this is a Scripture that I used in my lesson yesterday; It was 

1 Nephi 15:2-11 

2 And it came to pass that I beheld my brethren, and they were disputing one with another concerning the things which my father had spoken unto them.

3 For he truly spake many great things unto them, which were hard to be understood, save a man should inquire of the Lord; and they being hard in their hearts, therefore they did not look unto the Lord as they ought.

4 And now I, Nephi, was grieved because of the hardness of their hearts, and also, because of the things which I had seen, and knew they must unavoidably come to pass because of the great wickedness of the children of men.

5 And it came to pass that I was overcome because of my afflictions, for I considered that mine afflictions were great above all, because of the destruction of my people, for I had beheld their fall.

6 And it came to pass that after I had received strength I spake unto my brethren, desiring to know of them the cause of their disputations.

7 And they said: Behold, we cannot understand the words which our father hath spoken concerning the natural branches of the olive tree, and also concerning the Gentiles.

8 And I said unto them: Have ye inquired of the Lord?

9 And they said unto me: We have not; for the Lord maketh no such thing known unto us.

10 Behold, I said unto them: How is it that ye do not keep the commandments of the Lord? How is it that ye will perish, because of the hardness of your hearts?

11 Do ye not remember the things which the Lord hath said?—If ye will not harden your hearts, and ask me in faith, believing that ye shall receive, with diligence in keeping my commandments, surely these things shall be made known unto you.

Then I looked at my Student Manual and I read this; "If we harden our hearts, reject continuing revelation, & limit our learning to what we can obtain by study & reason on the precise language of the present canon of scriptures, our understanding we'll be limited to what Alma called [The Lesser portion of the word.] If we seek & accept revelation & inspiration to enlarge our understanding of the Scriptures, we will realize a fulfillment of Nephi's inspired Promise that those who diligently seek will have the Mysteries of God...unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost" - Dallin H. Oaks -   

That struck me really hard because it's super true! There are little things that we do in our everyday lives that can cause us to Harden our Hearts, and the sad thing is, we do it so easily and so readily. If we would take just a little effort each and every day to humble ourselves to the lord, we will see ourselves becoming more and more like the savior and we will know that he is blessing our lives more than we could ever know.

Well I hope that all of you have a FABTABULOUS DAY and WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love you all so very much!

Stay Foxy!

Elder Wyatt Gatlin