Let me just tell you I have learned all kinds of superfluous facts about he Bible this week. I am just crazy interested in the Bible right now. I started over in the New Testament, I felt like I should stop where I was in the Book of Mormon, and just start tearing into Mathew. I'm reading very slowly, and the majority of my reading is actually in Jesus the Christ by Talmage. Now that is some serious literature. I can imagine that being the least interesting text to fall into many unwanting hands since its publication, but I just cannot put it down. I've been reading during breakfast, on the toilet, during lunch, during time for decompression at the end of the day. It's never a bad time for Jesus the Christ. I don't think i've even begun to dent its full span of information, however it has been most helpful in explaining parables by giving contextual culture clues from the time, and references to greek origination of words, and the like. I think this was sparked by a lesson we had with some non-denomenational Christians that were just so peeved we felt like Christ's Atonement didn't one time save-all and exempt us from our personal responsibility to become converted to his Gospel. Getting into his teachings it's evident he intended for every individual to come into contact with his teachings and a knowledge of his mission in God's plan and would then have the opportunity to choose by acting upon his teaching or reject it by ignoring it's call to repentance. Again and again he stresses the necessity of bearing fruits meet of repentance, and the complete sacrifice which must be given to obtain the pearl of great price or the hidden treasure in the field. I think i started just wanting to feel validified in my beliefs by going back to Christ's teachings, and it was successful. The other thing that prodded me this way was the fear of being biblicaly incompetent in a wealthy area of the bible belt, especially with all the exposure the church will receive this next month. (Hint.. hint..) So i'm very satisfied with the study to this point.
We had a lot of appointments dropped on us last minute this week.
Our companionship is still.. moving right along. We had interviews with President this last week and he just said, "keep doing what you're doing, not a lot of people could take your place." So maybe that means i'm going to be here for a while? Elder Dewitt has like 8 weeks left as a missionary, so that's a factor now.
I had a little bit of a stress attack on wednesday, I had a cold for most of this week, so I couldn't work out and that normally helps me releive stress, It wasn't a bad cold but I wasn't resting so it was just perpetuated for an extended period of time, because if I rest the missionary work stops. So I was sick and stressed and then I decided I just needed time to think and figure out what we were going to do. It was great, I got some problems figured out.
A huge help was sister Smith who has a son on a mission heard me coughing and loaded me up with drugs. That was a life-saver. I feel pretty much fine now.
We had received instruction Wendesday on 7 things we need to work on as a result of Elder Hamula coming to the mission, and I felt unprepared for the Christmas initiative and how to best incorporate that into our already floundering work. It's going to be a time I always remember from my mission and I would so regret not putting some ingentuity into it.
So you just do your best, and you exercise faith. Revelation seems to come after you've done everything you can do. So that requires the time to sit and plan and think until your brain hurts and try lots of things, then he will give you what you're looking for and in the process make you a little bit better and more prepared to face greater challenges ahead.
The glue of my companionship is quoting Nacho Libre, Napoleon Dynamite, and Brian Regan. I don't really get it, but if I didn't know every word that ever came out of those 3 mens mouths I would be totally lost in my attempts to releive tension.
"They don't think I know like a butt ton of crap about the Gospel - but I do!"
I am grateful this Thanksgiving for a very supportive family, and for the atonement which strengthens us. I'm also grateful for restored priesthood power which leads us and gives us direction in our lives.
I'll miss you on Thanksgiving! Show how thankful you are for food by fitting as much of it inside of you as you can! If it doesn't hurt, you're not thankful enough.
I love you!
We had a lot of appointments dropped on us last minute this week.
Our companionship is still.. moving right along. We had interviews with President this last week and he just said, "keep doing what you're doing, not a lot of people could take your place." So maybe that means i'm going to be here for a while? Elder Dewitt has like 8 weeks left as a missionary, so that's a factor now.
I had a little bit of a stress attack on wednesday, I had a cold for most of this week, so I couldn't work out and that normally helps me releive stress, It wasn't a bad cold but I wasn't resting so it was just perpetuated for an extended period of time, because if I rest the missionary work stops. So I was sick and stressed and then I decided I just needed time to think and figure out what we were going to do. It was great, I got some problems figured out.
A huge help was sister Smith who has a son on a mission heard me coughing and loaded me up with drugs. That was a life-saver. I feel pretty much fine now.
We had received instruction Wendesday on 7 things we need to work on as a result of Elder Hamula coming to the mission, and I felt unprepared for the Christmas initiative and how to best incorporate that into our already floundering work. It's going to be a time I always remember from my mission and I would so regret not putting some ingentuity into it.
So you just do your best, and you exercise faith. Revelation seems to come after you've done everything you can do. So that requires the time to sit and plan and think until your brain hurts and try lots of things, then he will give you what you're looking for and in the process make you a little bit better and more prepared to face greater challenges ahead.
The glue of my companionship is quoting Nacho Libre, Napoleon Dynamite, and Brian Regan. I don't really get it, but if I didn't know every word that ever came out of those 3 mens mouths I would be totally lost in my attempts to releive tension.
"They don't think I know like a butt ton of crap about the Gospel - but I do!"
I am grateful this Thanksgiving for a very supportive family, and for the atonement which strengthens us. I'm also grateful for restored priesthood power which leads us and gives us direction in our lives.
I'll miss you on Thanksgiving! Show how thankful you are for food by fitting as much of it inside of you as you can! If it doesn't hurt, you're not thankful enough.
I love you!
Stay Salty
Elder Tyler Meidell
Elder Tyler Meidell
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