Marriage, Missions, and Mosiah

March 18, 2013

 

Guys, can you believe how fast March is going?  I CAN NOT!  But it's cool though, I'm way stoked for General Conference!  It will be a blast.  Also, April will be fun because It looks like we'll have a couple baptisms on April 6th.  What a good day for baptisms ;)

 

Ooh, also, we'll be having a marriage on Thursday! Rachel and Mitch, after church this Sunday, were talking to me and they told me that they finally went out and got their marriage license!  Bishop will be performing the ceremony on Thursday, we're gonna go out and grab them a little cake and something to try and make it memorable, and I can't wait :) I love marriages!  and then their baptism is scheduled for after church this next Sunday :) What a miracle :)  The spirit I felt at the last marriage I was at was so special, I'm really excited for this one. 

I definitely feel WAY more in tune with the spirit as a missionary than I did before, I'm going to do my best to hold onto that post-mission.  

 

I LOVE being a missionary.  It is the best, most worthwhile, most fulfilling thing I've ever done by far.  I wish I could be a missionary forever.  I'm scared at how fast it's going. 

Elder T and I would talk about it sometimes.  If we could watch movies on Pday, listen to our own music during non-proselyting hours, and date girls on the weekends, we would happily just be missionaries forever.  But those three things will definitely make coming home pretty fun.  And the other thing is that being a missionary is so stressful. ESPECIALLY as a Zone Leader, I just feel like there's tons of pressure.  When I go home, I think it will feel like taking about 500 lbs off my shoulders.  So that will be nice too.

 

I've been studying in Mosiah the past week or two, it's been GREAT.  It's so funny to me, I read this pretty darn recently, and I read it pretty darn in depth, and yet I feel like I missed so much last time that I'm catching now, and I'm sure next time I read this I'll catch even more. 

 

Here's some food for thought:  So Abinadi spends a good deal of time ripping King Noah and the wicked priests for their misuse and lack of understanding concerning the Law of Moses, yeah?   So I looked into that a lot last time I read through, it was great.  Abinadi keeps telling them that the Law of Moses is shadow and a type of things to come.  But check this out, I've never noticed this before ( maybe this is common knowledge, but since I discovered this only a couple days ago, it seems pretty profound to me!), Abinadi is a type of Christ!   I don't have much time to delve into it, but check out Mosiah 12:1, 18-19, 28-29, 13:2, 6, all of mosiah 14, 15:1-5, 17:5-8,9-12, 13,19,20

 

Pretty intense.