Hey ya'll its been a great week with lots of free food from birthday parties haha, learning and cooking babinkang kanin (super sweet rice on steroids with coconut yesss), and learning to be a little more happy by decision. Its been fun and we've walked lots, and we are really trying to help them out. In anyway possible we serve and I can't imagine leaving here anymore its definitely like home now (no offense to my actual home haha! ;) ). It just great when you do something for others and get to see the fruit of it, but even better when you don't see the fruit of it but know you did what God wanted you to do, after all we're his hands on earth or his tools for his work.
So anyway here's something I thought about this week as pondering about obedience and God's want of our obedience. Now in wrestling you are taught what to do and how to react in different situations and expected to use those on the mat in matches. Now in a match we are focused on our opponent because we're not if course we'll lose, but the entire match we're listening to the loud, crazy voice of our coach on the side lines. Now Coach is an awesome experienced wrestler and sees and knows things we don't see or know, so we should believe in coach when he says something and do it. Now in my experience whenever I don't listen I either lose or screw up bad, so listening and doing/acting/ obeying is key. Now, it's the same with us and God in obedience. He's the coach on the sidelines and the opponent is anything from trial to temptations. Now if we listen and do or obey what he says we'll get through ok even in those rough situation that from our point of view we shouldn't do what he said, but remember he knows and see's things we don't. Now in wrestling no matter how fast and loud coach can speak sometimes in any match really things can really get going like in a crazy awesome scramble and coach can't really tell you everything you need to do in the time it takes to say it. He's trusting you to make the right choices that he has taught you throughout the season and that you have practiced and expects from you. Now lets put that in the obedience situation with God. We have been taught obedience and have practiced it and he expects it from us and sometimes there won't be any straight up direction on what to do, or you'll be tempted to do something wrong. He's just hoping we weren't super stubborn in the "wrestling room" and use what he has taught us. Now I know we aren't perfect but we can get better and better each and every time especially when we lose every now and then. This life is a great wrestling match and it's toe to toe take down and escape and defense, and now its getting closer to the third period. Will we fold or soar? It ultimately up to us with the agency or freedom of choice God has given us.
Let's try to do better in our listening, obeying, and integrity in what we've learned. Love you all and have a great week!!!
So anyway here's something I thought about this week as pondering about obedience and God's want of our obedience. Now in wrestling you are taught what to do and how to react in different situations and expected to use those on the mat in matches. Now in a match we are focused on our opponent because we're not if course we'll lose, but the entire match we're listening to the loud, crazy voice of our coach on the side lines. Now Coach is an awesome experienced wrestler and sees and knows things we don't see or know, so we should believe in coach when he says something and do it. Now in my experience whenever I don't listen I either lose or screw up bad, so listening and doing/acting/ obeying is key. Now, it's the same with us and God in obedience. He's the coach on the sidelines and the opponent is anything from trial to temptations. Now if we listen and do or obey what he says we'll get through ok even in those rough situation that from our point of view we shouldn't do what he said, but remember he knows and see's things we don't. Now in wrestling no matter how fast and loud coach can speak sometimes in any match really things can really get going like in a crazy awesome scramble and coach can't really tell you everything you need to do in the time it takes to say it. He's trusting you to make the right choices that he has taught you throughout the season and that you have practiced and expects from you. Now lets put that in the obedience situation with God. We have been taught obedience and have practiced it and he expects it from us and sometimes there won't be any straight up direction on what to do, or you'll be tempted to do something wrong. He's just hoping we weren't super stubborn in the "wrestling room" and use what he has taught us. Now I know we aren't perfect but we can get better and better each and every time especially when we lose every now and then. This life is a great wrestling match and it's toe to toe take down and escape and defense, and now its getting closer to the third period. Will we fold or soar? It ultimately up to us with the agency or freedom of choice God has given us.
Let's try to do better in our listening, obeying, and integrity in what we've learned. Love you all and have a great week!!!
Elder Peterson
remember stay Pogi, smile on, and laugh a little!
