PUSH

This week was so cool! We did another mission wide call with a mand named Dan Peterson. He is a BYU professor and scholar of the Book of Mormon, needless to say it was amazing!!! We've been working with a member and soon he'll have the Melchizedek Priesthood so that's super exciting!! 

I dont have much time to write but my MTC teacher sent this story to all of us in the MTC. Life was never supposed to be easy, and of course it's not. Missionaries will tell you the mish is hard, but si is back home, we've got planned out days, consistent schedules and a lot of help from the lord. Back home I know life can be hectic. I also know God knows each of us and exactly how to help, so make sure ya push.

A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room

filled with light and God appeared. The Lord told the man He

had work for him to do and showed him a large rock in front of

his cabin.

The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock

with all his might. So, this the man did, day after day.

For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders

set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving

rock, pushing with all of his might.

Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out,

feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain.

Since the man was showing discouragement, the Adversary (Satan),

decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the weary

mind:

"You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it

hasn't moved."

Thus, he gave the man the impression that the task was

impossible and that he was a failure. These thoughts

discouraged and disheartened the man.

Satan said, "Why kill yourself over this? Just put in your

time, giving just the minimum effort, and that will be good

enough. That's what the weary man planned to do, but decided to

make it a matter of prayer and to take his troubled thoughts to

the Lord.

“Lord,” he said, "I have labored long and hard in your service,

putting all my strength to do that which you have asked.

Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by

half a millimeter.

What is wrong?

Why am I failing?”

The Lord responded compassionately, "My friend, when I asked you

to serve Me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to

push against the rock with all of your strength, which you have

done.

Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it.

Your task was to push.

And now you come to Me with your strength spent,

thinking that you have failed.

Is that really so?

Look at yourself.

Your arms are strong and muscled,

your back sinewy and brown;

your hands are callused from constant pressure,

your legs have become massive and hard.

Through opposition you have grown much,

and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have.

True, you haven't moved the rock. But your calling was to be

obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My

wisdom. That you have done.

Now I, my friend, will move the rock."

At times, when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own

intellect to decipher what He wants, when actually what God

wants is just a simple obedience and faith in Him.

By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains,

but know that it is still God who moves mountains.

When everything seems to go wrong...just

P.U.S.H.!

When the job gets you down... just P.U.S.H.!

When people don't react the way you think

they should... just P.U.S.H.

When your money is "gone" and the bills are due... just P.U.S.H!

When people just don't understand you... just P.U.S.H.

P= Pray

U= Until

S= Something

H= Happens