六週 (Week 6) - November 11, 2024 - MTC

 大家好！(Hello Everyone)

Highlights:

     -Catch me google earthing myself to Taiwan

     -LITERALLY MET PETER (the guy who plays peter 在 the temple)

     -Saw our teacher working in the temple!

     -Did a full day speaking no English! (禮拜三）(It's week 3)

     -Jessica's Theme????

     -The Fiji District sang the most beautiful song in Sacrament meeting :)

     -Found out we are getting 3 new members in our district this Wednesday!

Thought:

On Obedience/Intelligence (again) 

(God truly teaches people what they need to hear)

"Obedience is the path by which we can learn in mortality the things that truly matter most in eternity" --Elder Bednar

     Knowledge is gained through study and reading but intelligence (or wisdom persay) is gained through action and experience. 

Knowledge comes through diligence. 

Intelligence comes through obedience.

Through obedience we can become the most intelligent people who have ever lived on this earth! Intelligent people intentionally apply the knowledge they gain for righteous purposes in their lives. Don't let the knowledge you gain from spiritual experiences lay dormat gathering dust in the attic. Apply it! Use it! Become increasingly intelligent by being increasingly intentional. 

Example: 

     

I have been reading a lot recently about humility and forgetting myself in the work. I know exactly what humility is. I know that by service to others I can forget myself.

I have the knowledge of humility--

But this is not the intelligence of humility. It doesn't become intelligence until I actively think of ways to serve others. It doesn't become intelligence until I start actually doing things for others before I do them for myself. I need to get that glass of water for my companion or hold the door for all those people or give someone the last piece of graham canyon cheesecake (when you bet I wanted it) before it becomes the intelligence of humility :)

I encourage you all to actually find something in your life (an intentional action) you can do that will increase your intelligence, not just your knowledge, of the gospel. 

 

"We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort"

 -C.S Lewis (you know I be loving C.S)

再見！(Goodbye!)

吳姐妹

Sister Wardle

 

Pictures: Elder Romney (Meiyou), MTC shenanigans..., My district, More shenanigans, The Provo City Center Temple (where I met Peter from the temple movie and my MTC teacher was working...)