There is never a moment in which I am not learning how to get my weaknesses out of the way of the work of the Lord. Everyone needs to struggle, because that is why we are sent here to Earth, so that we can overcome and become more.
I am grateful that I have only leaders in my apartment (the Zone Leader companionship and my companion is the District Leader), because they are leading a group for higher things, and want to get things DONE!! As well as their fantastic examples, they tell me about their early experiences in the mission and what they did wrong when they were getting started. Because of that, I able to learn from those before me.
I believe that is how God wants it to be, for everyone! So that new people coming in (to a new life) can learn by the previous peoples' good examples and what to avoid or what they can do in order to do better then they had.
"31 Condemn me not because of mine imperfection, neither my father, because of his imperfection, neither them who have written before him; but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been." ~Mormon 9: 31
Those who were before us, who are trying to go on the same path as we are now, tried, tested, experienced, and made mistakes in order to find out what is best. It is the way of the Lord.
I have found out that the scriptures are the greatest source of learning from those before us. We find out how God has worked miracles among the people in the past and how we can apply it today.
And, for sure we will not be absolutely perfect because of all of the knowledge in the scriptures, but if we learn to trust that this is the best way, and exercise our faith with action and application, then we can learn, grow, and become without having to have fear, suffering, and any other in just things of this life. For it is overcome through Christ!
If the scriptures show us an example of those striving for the most in life, and their experiences (successes and failures/mistakes), than it is proof to us that the best path to fullness of joy in this life and hereafter is through our Savior! It is the common theme throughout all the scriptures! The people before us have found the way!!
But, now it is up to us to apply! The people with the results worth while, are the followers of Christ. And they wrote how to do it! All the scriptures are a TESTAMENT that Christ is the way to achieve! (Old TESTAMENT [of Christ], New TESTAMENT [of Christ], Book of Mormon Another TESTAMENT of Christ) The end result is miraculous beyond imagination!
Test it for yourself. Look for the results you want in life, through the scriptures, and follow the examples of those who have the results you want!
Love you All!!
Elder Alger
Walking with a man to an Elementary school! He was really kind, but looking back, know he was drunk! You find a lot of them in Korea
Hello!!!!!!!!
These are our upstairs neighbors! Every time we go, they bring more and more kids! Building a pool of families to serve and love!
BIG woops on my part for not telling you sooner. Not this last Saturday, but the one before, there was a baptismal service and I was asked by the sister missionaries' investigator 강민규(Kang-Mean-Kgyou) to baptize him! It was a pleasure and a blessing. He is a fantastic kid, and has a lot ahead of him!
Sometime as a missionary in Kyo-Moon Ward you have to go out to far places on the bus, and when there is no one that will talk to you, then I get great great Korean Scripture study time!!! I am understanding the scriptures!!! I love learning new ways to express the gospel or to look at it from a different view, and reading it in Korean forces me to focus more on the tiny details and a different way to explain the gospel. It is fun!!!!!
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