Small and Simple Things

a quote from conference:

"I have observed that those who are deliberate about doing the “small and simple things”—obeying in seemingly little ways—are blessed with faith and strength that go far beyond the actual acts of obedience themselves and, in fact, may seem totally unrelated to them. It may seem hard to draw a connection between the basic daily acts of obedience and solutions to the big, complicated problems we face. But they are related. In my experience, getting the little daily habits of faith right is the single best way to fortify ourselves against the troubles of life, whatever they may be. Small acts of faith, even when they seem insignificant or entirely disconnected from the specific problems that vex us, bless us in all we do."

 The Lord is incredible. It's remarkably simple. Just follow the Savior, do what He's asked you to do. The guidance you receive from personal prayers are you personal commandments. If you don't follow the answers you receive, you close yourself not only to future guidance, but you close the windows of heaven, bit by bit.

 The work is great. We struggle to get people to church right now. Other than that, we should be baptising a Kurdish bloke named Muhammed this Saturday,  and then another Kurdish bloke named Dilshad the week after! But we have 12 new investigators or summit like that!

Esmaiel, baptized a couple monf ago. Wearing my badge and bag

getting a haircut? finally. JK. I think this is his second haircut.

I love this work. It is so much fun! I'm learning so much from elder Fife. He's such a good bloke! I love this gospel, I love missionary work. The Savior is able to empty our lives of all our misdeeds, and so He is able to FILL it with the things of a better world, the actions, the desires. All this can be ours, if we but choose to follow the Savior. To quote Shia LaBeouf, "Just do it!"

"Ever hear of Spencer W. Kimball?" I asked him. :)

Elder Beadle

Muskaaaaan!