Happy Monday Everyone!
This week was great! It started off with 2 days in little rock where we were training other missionaries. Then we were able to return to our area and have a great with filled with many amazing people.
Two things I would like to talk about today. They have been on my mind spot lately. They are mothers, and humility. I would like to focus on an aspect of humility that I have seen exhibited in many women, including and especially my mom. It is this: Humility is "to recognize gratefully our dependence on the Lord—to understand that we have constant need for His support." (Humility, Gospel topics)
Motherhood and missionary work are both very taxing and spiritually exhausting tasks. They require us to go beyond trusting in our own efforts and relying on the Lord for strength and divine assistance. I know that I have been a recipient of faith inspired ministering from my mother on many occasions. She has been an example to me as I in turn reach out to others children of our Heavenly Father and minister to them.
The power and aid that our Lord is so willing to give us is accessible to all. Often times we need to only ask for it. That is where the humility comes in. We have to humble ourselves to understand that by ourselves we can accomplish little, but that with God we can accomplish anything. As the prophet Alma said we can all say
"Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever." (Alma 26:12, pg 273)
Thank you mom for being humble and kind. I know that you have been led by the spirit as you have nurtured both me and many others.
I hope that we can all humble ourselves and strive to aid the Savior and the mothers of the world in the task of ministering s d caring for others.
Have an amazing week
Elder C.R. Anderson
Our apartment door
The river is really high
Off in the distance, the steam cloud from the nuclear power plant
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