So that title answers to what my favorite General Conference quote is....good ol packer.
So, I would feel more guilty for not including you all in my weekly email blast last week...if it wasn't for the fact that this has been the first time on my mission where I have gotten an email from all of my family members at the same time...I'm not sorry. Although I do feel for my sister Alyssa. To quote Phoebe "I have tasted of my own medicine and it is bitter" or more recently to quote Sheldon "Payback, it truelly is the "B" word."
This week has been busy! We had to stuff 7 days of work into 5 days, because of general conference and a super long doctors appointment. Elder Clark, due to a hurt ankle needed to visit the doctor. So, we went after Zone Training Meeting. But of course we had to take advantage of 60¢ wings at BWWs so we didn't head out until 2. The journey to the doctor took an hour and the actual appointment( Waiting and what not) took 3 hours. So by the time we got back to our area we had about two and a half hours left. Busy busy!
That day I witnessed something that I feel would be a lot like judgement day for those who are not ready. I was driving along when the road, all of the sudden turned into a highway and not only that but it was a toll road. Not expecting to have to have a dollar in quarters ready at hand, I hurriedly looked around for some change...but to no avail. With no way out and with cars pilling up behind me, I was damned. I feared what was about to happen I didn't know what to do! I had to humble myself, and with a short prayer, I opened the door and asked a man in the car behind me if he could help me out. He graciously gave me four quarters, denying the dollar bill I planned to exchange for him. And with the help of this man I was freed from my temporary prison.
34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world. (Alma 34)
The feelings I felt, even though it wasn't on an eternal scale still filled me with fear and it was a definite crisis. But it reminded me of my savior and the role He has in my eternal salvation. Because He Lives, we have an advocate who loves us and will do all he can to help us on our way. As we humble ourselves and rely on our Savior, that judgement day will be a good day, a day of peace and day of relief. As Dieter F. Uchtdorf said, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
May we all be a little more humble that we will be ready to meet our savior, Jesus Christ. I hope you all have a wonderful week, and I will here from you next week.
Elder Herrin
P.S. I Love My Family!!
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