It has been such a good week! I got to go on exchanges with the sisters from Gaerwen (one of my previous areas), we had an amazing zone conference, and we had really good lessons with several of our friends.
We had zone conference with Elder Sabin, one of the area 70's, and he is such a wise man. One of the things he spoke about was having an eternal perspective. He put a small dot in the middle of a white page and compared all of the white page to the eternities. He then explained that the dot was this life and that in the eternities it is such a small time. He then asked to think about what percent of that dot is one bad day, or even one bad month. Our life on earth is such a short time in comparison to the time we had before and the time we will have after. If we have an eternal perspective, it will help us to be able to endure and to see our trials in a different perspective. What a blessing to be able to see beyond just the immediate.
We also had a few good lessons where the spirit was really present. One was with this girl named Olivia that I actually met while I was on exchanges here a few months ago. She said that she'd read the book of Mormon and prayed about it but that she felt she hasn't received an answer. We were able to go through Moronic 10:4 with her and discuss what we must do to receive an answer. One of the things discussed in that verse is real intent, which is having the intent to act on the answer you receive. We receive answers to our questions when we humble ourselves enough to say "thy will, not mine". It was such a good reminder to me, and hopefully Olivia, of the principle.
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