Feb 3

Well my camera is still out of commission, so now I have to actually right something...🤣. But hope everything's going well for y'all. It is here in Madrid. I just (well almost a week ago), but I just got a new companion. His name is Elder Williams and it's been awesome. He has been here for a while and he's been tea hing me a lot. We have been getting to know people mostly for Elder Williams, but it also helps me for all of the people who I just don't remember their names :). But we also got a few new members in our district. Plus my new companion is the district leader which means lots of phone calls, but we also get to go on exchanges!

Well, something I was thinking about this week was from a General Conference talk I listened to. It is from two conferences ago by Elder D Todd Christopherson. He quoted someone else saying: 

“The facts about Jesus of Nazareth, and especially about his resurrection from the dead, are the foundation of the assurance that the world is not random. It is not ultimately a chaos; that when we do justice in the present we are not whistling in the dark, trying to shore up a building that will ultimately collapse, or to fix a car which is actually bound for the scrap-heap. When God raised Jesus from the dead, that was the microcosmic event in which the ultimate macrocosmic act of judgment was contained in a nutshell, [the] seed … of the ultimate hope. God declared, in the most powerful way imaginable, that Jesus of Nazareth really was the Messiah. … In the greatest irony of history, [Jesus] himself underwent cruel and unjust judgment, coming to the place which symbolized and drew together all the myriad cruelties and injustices of history, to bear that chaos, that darkness, that cruelty, that injustice, in himself, and to exhaust its power.”

We are not just here by chance. There is more purpose to this life. And this because Christ lives. Witnesses are abundant, scriptures, testimonies, feelings, and most of all the help we can get from the Savior. While that is his primary role, He is here to help us as well. He is willing to bear our struggles and help us develop into who we are meant to be. We can lean on Him and He will support us. Another quote is something along the lines of "the Savior sees the worst, darkest parts of our life and rather than recoiling in horror he says 'I can clean that if you want'". He has experienced it all, He has overcome the world and is more than willing to aid us in our effort.

Love you all, have a good one. 😊