May 14 at 7:57 PM
Half-way finished with my fourth
transfer! That's crazy!
Hurray for Mother's Day! I was able
to Skype with my family, and they are fantastic, as usual. :) That was kind of
a crazy day. Crazy but good. I like being busy. Happy Mothers' Day to all the
beautiful women in my life! I love you! Thank you for your spirits and your
examples. :)
You know, I don't know that there's
anything very interesting about our week that I can write. I think if I wasn't
so thrilled to be out here, I would not be super thrilled to be out here. When
I look back on my planners, a lot of the days look really similar, if I'm being
honest. But! Each day brings new experiences, new things to appreciate about
life, new people to meet. So yes, similar activities, but not the same, which
means it's always fun.
This past week I re-read 1 Nephi
3-5. Holy cow is Nephi a 멋있는 남자. As I read, I was focusing on the
relationship between faith and obedience. I think for a lot of things
(maybe most things), Heavenly Father asks us to do and promises blessings, but
we don't receive blessings (or don't recognize them as abundantly)
until we do what Heavenly Father has asked. I don't know why He works like
that. Sometimes I wish He didn't. There are definitely days when
I've wished that He would just tell me, "You're going to receive this blessing on this day, and all you need to do is this." If I knew
about blessings like that, I would be more
than happy to do what He asks. I could move forward with more confidence
because it would seem more concrete, the blessings that I would receive. And
you know, there are some commandments for which you can do that, where
you can see the immediate blessings (i.e. The Word of Wisdom.
We know from modern scientifical things that smoking and drinking is
not good for you. Hurray for revelation!). With other commandments--most other
commandments, I think--the blessings are a little more difficult to
recognize. That's where faith comes in. More specifically, faith in the
promises that He's given us, as vague as they may sometimes seem. When we have
faith in those promises, it seems a little easier to act, I think. And then,
when we act in faith, we see the blessings! Our faith gets... fulfilled? I
don't know if that's the right word to use. The other phrase I think of is
"evidence of faith". Receiving promised blessings, to me, is just
evidence of our faith.
I think because we're humans, we
need to continue to experience exercising faith and seeing the promised
blessings fulfilled. I know that as we do that, we will enjoy the blessing that
Heavenly Father wants to rain down on us more fully.
(Side note: I wonder if
"receiving promised blessings" is just us being able to better
recognize all the ways that He's already blessing us...)
I love you all! I hope you have a
good week!
Love,
Sister Chun
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