- There was a bear in Bozeman high. #WelcomeToMontana
- Got a picture with Flo, just for you Z!
- Balled up with splash Elder Potter, he even takes care
of my shoes.
#SplashElders
- Found a $3 tie at the thrift store with an Indian chief
on it....Not sure why the Tabasco logo is on it but IDC.... You
better believe I was rockin that bad boy Saturday!!! #UteProud
Another week crooooooooooosin by! So stinkin pretty up
here, LOVE FALL!!! It's cooling down but I won't complain about the weather
till I'm tracting in 20 below... Even that I can't complain too much, so lucky
to be serving here.
Started a car share so those roads I talked about last
week where we can cruise 75 on.... Now we're biking on! Pretty fun actually. We
were wondering how we were gonna make it work, our area is huge! Then I
remembered Nephi and all the struggles he had, when his bow broke what did he
do??? Complain, or find a solution??? He sucked it up, built a bow, and got
back to work. It's this logic and wisdom from the Book of Mormon that has
inspired Elder Christensen and I to build our own car... Or capture and domesticate
a wild animal...
*We have a goal to do something to get the white handbook
rewritten...
***domesticating an elk and/or bear for transportation
purposes would get us in there for sure.
*****Pretty sure if they had footnotes in there for the
missionary that caused that rule to be added you'd see "@pettbryan" quite a bit so just
trying to follow the foot steps of my father.
******* #AchievementUnlocked
Really hasn't been too bad, I've got it so good serving here. Belgrade is just awesome. We are super pumped for these next couple weeks....
We will be filling up that baptismal font every Saturday
the rest of October so we are pretty stoked. Robison family continue to amaze
me and the spirit felt when we teach Oscar nearly brings me to tears.
This work is pretty dang cool, these two families have
strengthened my testimony of this gospel so much, they're the ones doing the
teaching.
Finished the Book of Mormon last week and started right
over this week. Was reading from 1 Nephi and decided to look a bit deeper than
I usually do when reading the beginning of the Book of Mormon. I remember Elder DeGraffenreid and I talking
about this on an exchange a while back....
1 Nephi 15:9: And I said: Lord, whither shall I go that I
may find ore to molten, that I may make tools to construct the ship after the
manner which thou hast shown unto me?
I have read that scripture A LOT of times, but never
given it much thought. Nephi was commanded to build a ship to take his family
to the promise land.
Did they miraculously appear in the promised land? No.
Did the ship just appear? No.
Did the tools needed to build the ship just appear? No.
Did the ore needed to build the tools to build the ship
just appear? No.
This gospel isn't easy. NOTHING is given to us unless it
is for us to act on it. We must....
1. Find the ore
2. Use ore to molten /make into tools
3. Use the tools to build the ship
4. Ship leads us to this promise land.
This analogy is applicable in so many ways... Missionary
work for example...
1. Find those the lord has prepared for us
2. Using the
gospel we turn them into tools
3. Using those tools we build faith... Or a
gigantic ship....
4. This ship is what will take us to the promised land
Like I said, it applies to this gospel in so many different
ways. The restoration, the atonement, church callings, the priesthood and so
on.... One in particular that I especially think is cool is families.
1. Find the right ore.... You wanna get real deep
doctrine you can start comparing females to the periodic table (#WifeThatGold).
2. Use the gospel to make that ore into the proper tool,
so both of you can be used to your full potential.
3. Use each other's tools to build faith and families, to
help everyone reach their full potential. To build that gigantic ship.
4. By living the gospel of Jesus Christ, That ship is
what leads to the promised land/celestial kingdom.
Still not getting married for another like 4 years (8 if
ea sports brings back ncaa football) #SorryMom, but I think that's my favorite
analogy. Families are so cool and as I
have said many many times my family is amazing. So grateful for all of them and
especially for gods plan that enables us to be with each other for ever.
Book of Mormon is filled with some major gems, but it's
up to us to find the ore, make it into tools, and use those tools to build our
faith and testimony. I've read that scripture many times and never given it
much of a second thought, but this particular time I read it, it meant so much
more. That's what's cool about the Book of Mormon, the words don't change, but
the Holy Ghost will continually teach us.
There is an endless supply of knowledge that comes from
it. I encourage all of you to search its teachings, molten tools that can build
your family.
I'm so blessed to be out here serving the lord, this
whole mission thing is starting to feel normal.... Which when I think about it
is pretty weird.... I've mentioned a couple times how much the mountains here
look like the oqquirhs when the sun sets. Saturday night especially I was being
reminded by it.... That yell continues to ring through the mountains near and
far. And I realized something, now I look out there and think about home. But
the day will come where I'm in sack lake city and I'll look out to the oqquirhs
and be reminded about my other home. I'll be reminded of the Families that have
changed my life. I only get 2 years to be out here serving the Lord, better
make em count!
"Choose ye this day, whom ye will serve."
-Elder K
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