Week 98- Endure to the end

 Aloha 皆さん、



Dang bruh last transfer. I have some mixed feelings about it. I want to be home with the family doing all sorts of stuff but I really don't wanna leave. It's a super weird feeling leaving me pretty moody recently but aye we thug it out. 

We had transfers and I got a new companion. I'm still in Miyako which I'm pretty stoked about. Overall the transfer is looking to be a good one, moody or not the work gotta progress.

I've been reading in 3rd Nephi recently and reading about the Gadianton robbers, Nephites and Laminates war. The robbers are laying siege on the Nephites and Laminites and the people want to go and attack the robbers to end the trial quickly. 

3 Nephi 3:20

20 Now the people said unto Gidgiddoni: Pray unto the Lord, and let us go up upon the mountains and into the wilderness, that we may fall upon the robbers and destroy them in their own lands.

I feel like I can relate to this sometimes. Obviously I'm not laying siege anywhere in Miyako but sometimes I want to just go and face a problem head on and get it over with. But the chief captain says in the next verse:

21 But Gidgiddoni saith unto them: The Lord forbid; for if we should go up against them the Lord would deliver us into their hands; ~ we will not go against them, but we will wait till they shall come against us; therefore as the Lord liveth, if we do this he will deliver them into our hands.

Sometimes the Lord requires us to be patient, and endure in order to deliver us from trials or discomfort. This last transfer ill do my best and wait patiently and endure to the end of my mission lesss goooo.

Das all tho

Shoots!

愛してるぜ~
エリス長老
TheRisingSon


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