How is everyone ?!? I am just going to say that I feel like I am in a bubble, there is no such thing as a world. I am so protected here on the mission and then our mission is out in the middle of nowhere !! :) just thought I would let you know. I have been talking to some of the new Americans and what they are saying is just going right over my head... I am pretty old in the mission too..... so just a random thought there.
This week has been full of different little things happening. We had Zone interviews. I love spending time around President. He is so amazing :) We had a citywide brown out that lasted all day, it was so dark !!! :)
So this week I really don't have anything new that happened with investigators but I really want to share with you something that has changed my life and my mission.
I read a talk by a CES teacher and stake president called the Mortal Christ. In it he said something that we all need to listen to.
We need to know Christ more than we all do now. As members, we can be special witnesses of Jesus Christ but first we need to know him. Really know him not just know about him. One of the ways that we can do that is to do everything that Jesus Christ did which was always being about his Father's business. His Father's Business should be ours which is in Moses 1:39 (to bring to pass the immortality and Eternal life of man). If we want to know Christ and really know him we must do the things that he did. We need to really pray not just pray but PRAY. Talk to him like you would a friend and ask to do his will. That is something that I am really working on. I am going to share an experience that I shared with my Mission President. I have found the being exactly obedient is the only way to go. I chose to break the schedule one day this week, I thought it would be fine to stay up a few extra minutes. What I found actually shocked me! When I choose what I want to do and it is against the rules I lose out on those blessings that Heavenly Father is willing to give me but can not because of my disobedience. Even just a simple act like staying up a little later than 10:30 affected the spirit that I had the next day. I lost the protection that comes from obedience. Through that experience I now have a testimony that I NEED to be exactly obedient in all things.
We need to learn how to please Father! We need to learn how to "court" the spirit in our lives. If we do that we will always be happy :) Just like him I think one of my fears in life is to not have the spirit. I am glad I could share this quick testimony with you :) Please Prepare for a mission :) I love it and I know you will too :)
Love Elder Bigelow
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