Taichung Time
We've had an incredible week! Some
rockin' lessons with investigators, some truly inspiring experiences on
companion exchanges, and some miracles of course!! One of my favorite
miracles of the week was watching our investigator pass his baptismal
interview! He's on course to be baptized this week, but still needs an
even bigger miracle at this time. He really wants his dad to support his
decision to be baptized, so he's in the middle of talking to him over
the course of this week. So far, the dad hasn't said anything to him, so
that's not really a bad or good sign, it's just a thing... please keep
him in your prayers! We've been praying and fasting for him throughout
the past couple of weeks, I know that the Lord can and will work
miracles in order to bring about His righteous purposes.
Elder
P and I are getting along great. We have a lot of fun together...
well, most of the time we're both too exhausted to do anything too crazy
by the time we get home, but it's still a blast! I love that he's a
hard worker. I'm glad that I don't have to worry about dragging him
around or anything, he keeps up like a champ! He's such a great help in
all that we do as a companionship!
My
spiritual share is centered on a famous movie line. "Why do we fall
Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves back-up." Have you ever felt
forsaken before? How did that feel? To be so utterly alone, covered in
bruises and lying on the dirt... what was going through your mind? The
most moving account of a forsaken man that I've ever seen is that of the
Savior of mankind hanging on the cross. After suffering fathomless
amounts of physical pain and public humiliation, He didn't open His
mouth in pain / complaint until the final moment when He cried: "Abba,
Father! Why hast thou forsaken me?" The words chill me to the bone each
time I read them. So I ask you the same question that Bruce Wayne was
asked by his father and Alfred... "Why do we fall?" Why was it necessary
for the Savior to be forsaken by God? Why is it that we must fall and
feel forsaken by God at times? "So we can learn to pick ourselves
back-up." I've fallen so many times, brothers and sisters. I've fallen
and I've fallen pretty hard at times, but I promise that these times,
although they took me to my breaking point and beyond, are the times
when I grew closest to the Lord and realized how I could pick myself up.
When you fall, get up. I echo the grand voice of President Uchtdorf in
saying, "You can do it NOW."
Rock on. Keep on keepin' on!
Elder Noll
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