Patience

The last few days haven't been some of my most gracefull. For a multitude of reasons. But mostly, I've just been a real downer.

(which is really a bummer because I just did that whole thing on "looking up")

I so badly wanted to feel the Spirit while Sister Valentine and I worked, but I kept finding myself thinking about how much I want to be home for Christmas, how much I wish we could teach more people, how much I wish I could change this, that, and everyone else.

My spirit was runnin on low...

So, in an attempt to overcome my own negativism and frustration, I finally studied patience. And here's what I found -

"...and bear with those afflictions, with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest from all your affictions"

- Alma 34:40-41

 

"...by your faith with great diligence, and with patience, looking forward to the fruit thereof, it shall take root; and by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet bove all that is sweet, and which is white above all that is white, yea, and pure above all that is pure; and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst."

- Alma 32:41-42

"We count them happy which endure..."

-James 5:10-11

 

"Be still and know that I am God"

-Psalm 46:10

And I realized, the really tough and scary and hard and unfair and mean things that happen to me...they will end, and I will be left with a better, less scared, less hard, less unfair, less mean...

 

ME

...if i just practice some patience.