I was lucky enough to get a couple lessons this week, the first of
my mission. It was really cool, and fun to actually use the lessons I
have prepared. They all went well, in terms of being able to convey our
message. Only one guy is still interested,
but he is super cool, and religiously open.
So that was the good news for this week, everything else has been
the same.I have been getting a lot better at studying just about
everything. I study and evaluate my studying techniques to make my study
more effective to make my teaching more effective.
Never thought that I would study the way to study, but it is actually
quite enjoyable.
For a spiritual thought, I just wanted to mention the importance of knowledge and whatnot. When we first act on a commandment, we act in
faith. We know maybe some reasons as to why it is good, maybe not. But as
we study, and live the commandments, we start
to understand more why it is so important and how it brings us
happiness. So why is it that if the way is simple to happiness, then is
it so hard to teach, or for people to understand? Or even when you
somewhat understand, why can it be hard to stray off the
right path? It is because we don't understand the entire reason. If we
truly understood and knew the consequence for every action, then we would
never make a mistake. This is why we are here, to learn and grow. The
more you learn, then the more you grow, and
growing means keeping more commandments, thus making us happier. I want
to go and join in on Carl's invitation to you all, that you really
should be reading scriptures everyday. And don't just read to check it
off. Read to learn and understand how you can use
principles to make you happier, and to align your will with God's.
Also aside from this thought, I thought I would add more, because
Grandpa told me that my letters need to be longer. In learning a new
language, you kind of gain another way of thinking. Grammar is the
hardest part to get down, because it is the way you
think. So I'm learning cool stuff spiritually from Romanian. Not a ton
yet but some. Romanian is the most Latin based language in the world,
because 2000 years ago the roman empire (which spoke Latin) took over
Romania. Then because of the area in which Romania
is, it has some influence to change the language, but the least amount
of any Latin/Romantic language. Anyway learning Latin (roots) is cool
because you can see the origination of many English words and another way
to think about said words. Also the translation
of words can make you think about that word in a different light. For
example, the Doctrine and Covenants in English translates to Doctrina so
Legamintele in Romanian. I want to now focus of the word Legamintele
which literally translates to "the Covenants".
However with Latin roots involed (which is easy to do in Romanian) you
can see that it separates into something like "lega" which means "law"
and "mintele" or "minte" which means mind. Not like brain mind but like remembrance or conscience type of mind. The verb "to tie or bind down" is "a legea". So
Covenants in Romanian or Latin is more like "the laws in mind". So that
helps me to understand more about covenants are all about, and how we
really should literally always remember them, and we will be blessed.
Te iubesc
Varstnicul Stanfield
Ps sorry for any spelling errors, the new vowels are killing me XD
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