Friday, November 15, 2024 10:55pm (Mountain Time)
Hey, it's me again.
Next Tuesday, I leave Provo, Utah, and go to Salt Lake City, also Utah! How exciting!
This week has been a week for sure.
We've had soothing scriptures, dazzling devotionals, shower showdowns, and more.
(Also, a super cool video attached at the bottom of this emal. But that can speak for itself.)
For my district's last week in the MTC, we've had the wonderful opportunity to have SYL week; Speak Your Language, or Habla Su Idoma if you are cool, like us.
Basically, we try to speak Spanish 24/7, which uh, when we've only really been learning it for 5 weeks. But I think everyone's doing considerably well, it's just hard to talk about things that aren't the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So it's gotten to the point where some of us strike up conversation with the English speakers when in the cafeteria instead of eating in scilence, making awkward eyecontact with the person sitting across from us.
My roommates are still crazy. I wanna know who's responsible for choosing these guys to be in the same campus. They've been doing this for awhile I think, but it has escalated. They like to take one of the Elder's giant water bottle, fill it with freezing water, and throw it on one them who is in the shower. So anyways, now they've got alliances, and hostages, and... well, I won't go into it. Looking for more entertainment? Respectfully, read your scriptures.
This Tuesday, we received the great pleasure (not sarcastic) of hearing from probably my favorite of the Quorum of The 70, Elder Karl D. Hirst. I'm sure you all remember who that is. (sarcastic) He's the British guy who was called in April of this year. His talk in General Conference this October was awesome, it's call "God's Favourite" should you want to give it a listen. (You should.)
The devotional he gave was my favorite one I've been able to attend here because each point he gave was something that could help us in the mission field, and in general life.
Elder Hirst, as he had previously touched on in October, talked a lot about how the trials that God gives make manifest His love for us. God gives us our trials and weaknesses with the intent that we learn and grow from them, and do our best to improve ourselves.
Trials are not the evidence that God has stopped loving, but that He always has loved.
Life is not easy. But why should it be? How would we become better? When has anyone ever grown as a person from getting a big bowl of ice cream placed in front of them?(other than sideways.)
An analogy he gave about weaknesses caused us to ponder on a scenario of being gifted a jar full of the ingredients for cookies. What would we do with that jar of ingredients? Put it on the mantle? Um, I'm not sure about you, but I'd probably make some cookies. (If I had an oven) The person gifting obviously didn't mean for their gift to stay in the condition it was when they gave it to you.
The same is for God, and our weaknesses. God gives us weaknesses not intending us to remain weak, but so we can learn to humble ourselves, and feel the joy of improvement.
He referenced one of my favorite scriptures, Ether 12:27, which says, "I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.”
Whoa. It's red. Is that red for you, too? Must be important.
God wants us to grow, God needs us to grow, and He will cause us to grow, so long as we are humble, and work diligently to become the person He knows you can be, through daily repentance.
Next week won't have an email on Friday, I'm still not 100% sure when my Pday will be. ¡Hasta luego!
Love you guys!
-Élder Montgomery
Put on a smile and look in the mirror."
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