Sunday, July 19, 2020

July 19, 2020

It's crazy to think that I'm half way done with my mission. Now it's a chase to hold onto time before it all slips away. I'm already thinking about how much I'm going to miss Italy.

I've recently gotten more adventurous with my cooking. I make a homemade Mac and cheese which is harder here because you're forced to use real cheese and melt it and turn that into a sauce. It was pretty dang good, the cheese isn't exactly cheep though haha. 

I'm writing this before I get my transfer call so I'm not sure if I'm leaving this week or staying for at least another 6 weeks. Both options are a bitter sweet. I've really gotten used to this area and have a vision for it's future. I just hope when I leave that the next missionaries here will see it like I do now.

I'm now writing my own songs on guitar because I'm getting bored of the other stuff and it's not easy to find new songs I want to learn. And no I don't write lyrics it's just the music ahah. Things are still kind of slow here so we have to find productive things to do with our boredom. We're almost out of this mess over here ðŸ˜‚. The more I look at the bigger picture of certain events and changes happening at specific times, God has everything worked out. Necessary steps are obviously made before you could've imagined having to make that step. I'll leave it to you guys to look at everything yourselves and make your own realizations specifically pertaining to your own lives. It's a really cool experience.

My main focus in my personal studies and self development has been to be able to receive personal revelation. It's a skill you cannot be taught and one that requires a lot of work and humility. It's such a rewarding experience because every time you take a step further you feel so good and you feel like you have such a greater understanding of life and everything that has to do with it than ever before. And then you realize that you can learn more because you just did. God really does reward you every step of the way in order to tell us that it's right and to encourage us to keep going.
  
   I think I've heard before to not pray for humility if you don't want a humbling experience. This is kind of funny because you're just asking for a crappy day or two ðŸ˜‚ but call me crazy, but I want to ask God for that crappy day. A thing that I've learned most recently or at least something I finally understand better is that we are in this life to learn in the most effective way possible. A way that Adam and eve had to fall from the presence of God in order to participate in. We were all learning in heaven as spirit children, as were Adam and eve learning in the garden, but we knew and God still knows that that is not how we were going to grow to become like how father in heaven. Books never trump experience. Even if the book is read to us by someone with a lot of it.

This email got pretty long but it could have and would have gone a lot longer if I didn't catch myself there ahah. If you want to have a nice conversation about anything I just said I would love to discuss it with you.

I love you all and have a great week! 

-Anziano Harvey 

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