Hello Family and Friends!
I hope your week has been great! Mine, well, we'll get into
that.
This week has been a great week for bonding and companionship
unity between Elder Davis and I. We got the chance to learn about and love each
other even more. God given charity is a wonderful thing. The ability to see
others as Christ sees them is such a blessing.
You all remember how I was sick last week? Well, this week was
even worse! After being conveniently un-sick for P-day and our dinner
appointments on Sunday and Monday, I woke up later unable to get out of bed!
Isn't that fantastic? Yeah it sucked. But that's okay though! I don't let it
get me down. I watched a lot of church videos to fill the time.
Something I did want to talk about is a cool study I had this
morning for personal study! In one of Elder Bednar's talks (either "Ask In
Faith", "Seek Learning by Faith" or a different one that I can't
remember right now), he asks us, almost in passing, to someday go through 1
Nephi 11-14 and take a look at the learning process and how the angel
encourages Nephi. So that's what I did! and I took a page of notes! .... on
verse 1! It was a fantastic study. It was interesting to me to see how The Lord
(and the angel) helped Nephi in using his agency even in a vision.
Verse 1 was particularly cool. I looked at the "Desire,
Believe, Ponder" system that Nephi uses to become caught up in the vision.
The cool thing that I had never even seen before is that Nephi doesn't even
initially want to see the vision! That's not his goal. His goal is to know the
things his father knows. He's rewarded with the vision because of his great
faith. I encourage you all to delve into the scriptures! There are so many
things to learn in there. So. Many. Too much, it can sometimes seem.
Love you all! Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers in my
behalf. Know that I love this work and love being a missionary!
Love,
Elder Brax Johnson
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