To ponder, is to think about a specific something carefully. I had many thoughts on what I as a missionary could do better, to focus or to meditate on. Yet there was one specific term that clearly spoke to me in General Conference, which was to ponderizing. This week I felt impressed to select a scripture to help me do such a thing. I chose a passage that has always touched my heart, and even more so now that I am serving others as a missionary.
"Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever." (Alma 26:12)
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Many of which I have been waiting and praying and fasting long and hard for. I now know the Lord always answers prayers when we seek out his righteous ways and do His work. Let me elaborate with one experience that happen near the close of this week. After we had been cursed at for over 45 minutes, with all sorts of profane words and terms, we left feeling a bit shocked... I didn't know what to think, or even why that why we had sat through that long and aggravating experience. But with peace and guidance from the spirit, we held our ground and spoke only truth and made the bad situation into a better one. I say better because it wasn't a perfect turn around but it ended on a good …show more content…
The first being the lord always protects his servants, we must always have faith and not fear. Even if we are being cursed at or even yelled at by a drunken man. The second being that the Lord not only guides us but blesses us with complete joy, though we may have to walk through some dark times, there is always, and I repeat, there is ALWAYS more happiness and joy that comes there after.
Joseph Smith said when he was in Liberty jail, "O God, where art thou?...How long shall thy hand be stayed...Yea, O Lord, how long shall they suffer these wrongs and unlawful oppressions...O Lord God Almighty...stretch forth thy hand..." (Doctrine and Covenants 12:1-4)
He cried out for help, and just as I have cried out for help and pleaded with the Lord, I too received such comfort and guidance even as Joseph Smith did. " My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes." (Doctrine and Covenants
"Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever." (Alma 26:12)
I always …show more content…
Many of which I have been waiting and praying and fasting long and hard for. I now know the Lord always answers prayers when we seek out his righteous ways and do His work. Let me elaborate with one experience that happen near the close of this week. After we had been cursed at for over 45 minutes, with all sorts of profane words and terms, we left feeling a bit shocked... I didn't know what to think, or even why that why we had sat through that long and aggravating experience. But with peace and guidance from the spirit, we held our ground and spoke only truth and made the bad situation into a better one. I say better because it wasn't a perfect turn around but it ended on a good …show more content…
The first being the lord always protects his servants, we must always have faith and not fear. Even if we are being cursed at or even yelled at by a drunken man. The second being that the Lord not only guides us but blesses us with complete joy, though we may have to walk through some dark times, there is always, and I repeat, there is ALWAYS more happiness and joy that comes there after.
Joseph Smith said when he was in Liberty jail, "O God, where art thou?...How long shall thy hand be stayed...Yea, O Lord, how long shall they suffer these wrongs and unlawful oppressions...O Lord God Almighty...stretch forth thy hand..." (Doctrine and Covenants 12:1-4)
He cried out for help, and just as I have cried out for help and pleaded with the Lord, I too received such comfort and guidance even as Joseph Smith did. " My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes." (Doctrine and Covenants