My most hopeful goal for this week is that I can feel the Holy Ghost every day. There is nothing quite like feeling the Holy Ghost telling me I've done a good job today, to feel satisfied with the work I did.
We went to the Cheesecake Factory today. It's a restaurant. At first, I thought it was just a bakery for cheesecake, but it's a restaurant! With cheesecake for dessert. I had a slice of cherry cheesecake....I'm feeling it now. Probably shouldn't have eaten it...oh,well. That's what repentance is for, right? It's a good thing it's a prominent part of our lives.
This week, President Riggs had us read Nehemiah chapters 1-6, about Nehemiah rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. Then, he analyzed with us how we can apply that to our mission. Nehemiah was bold in telling the king that he was sad because the king had destroyed Jerusalem and asking leave to rebuild it. Then he was bold in telling the people of Jerusalem that they were a reproach, but there was something they could do to fix it-rebuild the wall! But since it was so big, they needed everybody to work "from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared", like missionaries work all day-and they all worked on different sections of the wall-like areas in a mission. And because they all worked so hard, all together, at their assigned areas, they got the wall rebuilt in 52 days....when President Riggs did this with us, he only had 53 days left in his mission, so we're building a wall! Which is strange, because you'd think that missionaries are to break down walls, but we're building a wall! We're building by being bold. Using scriptures boldly in our lessons, boldly inviting, making our prayers mighty, becoming bold like Nehemiah! It's going to be awesome! "The people [have] a mind to work."
And so, I'm going back to build!
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