How was general conference? how are you?
What are you doing to celebrate dad's birthday? Something that I suggest doing, something that I've been craving to do for a while is to go to the mountains, hike, and watch the sunrise and the sunset and just look at the stars. I wish I could do that with all of you all. I felt like there were SOOOO many good messages in general conference, and one of them is strengthening family ties.
Oh and don't need to worry about cultural experiences, because we have this thing in Thailand called Songkran. It's this huge water fight that goes on throughout the WHOLE country! EVERYONE plays and it's kinda dangerous when we have to ride our bikes being attacked with water guns and buckets haha. It's so much fun and lasts for about 3 days.
I really did enjoy General conference and got a lot out from it. There were a lot of themes in their, from the Atonement, strengthening family ties, faith, obedience, to charity. I felt a lot of it applied to our district and it was much needed.
Lately, I've been struggling with forgiveness. Typically I'm good at getting over things that people have done wrong towards me, but lately I haven't been able to do so. Instead I've been carrying this grudge around, and I didn't realize how heavy it was, and seeing how badly it was affecting me. I realized it was making me tired - emotionally, spiritually, and physically - and was burdening my heart. It takes sooooo much energy to be mad at someone.
It reminds me of when Aladdin was tied up with a ball-chained weight and thrown into the ocean. The further we dwell and be angry with someone the further and further we sink into the depths of the ocean. However, when we forgive each other, oh how much lighter we'll feel. Sometimes it's hard to forgive someone that has wronged against you when you did nothing wrong. I remember having to pray for help to forgive this person and pray for the gift of charity so that I could learn how to love her. Do you remember that it was Genie that came in, and saved Aladdin? Well the Genie is Christ and is Atonement in our lives. When we put down our pride and ask him for help, He'll save us from going further into the depths of despair! I really liked President Monson's talk on Charity. I'm trying to be more loving, and once I forgave her and apologized myself to her, I felt so much better and lighter. I felt happy and could continue working.
I'm still trying to help everyone, and doing what I can to help with district unity! I understand it'll take not only effort from our parts, but help from the Lord. It's a great lesson to learn. I want to say thanks for helping me out! Please be patient with me as I'm slowly being molded into what God and the mission needs me to be! Thanks again!
We also received a baptism! Her name is Pim and she's SOOOO cute! She comes to english class and was willing to take lessons from the missionaries about the gospel too! She's awesome!
Also we have new music rules! We can now listen to any music that is a HYMN! by anyone! It just can't have drums and obnoxious loud guitars like electric etc. It's so awesome except I want to listen to Josh Groban soooooooo bad! I loved hearing your stories about Julie and the missionaries. It's true to just speak by the spirit and also it helps to understand the other person's perspective before judging them. I sometimes forget that.
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