Truth is Our Helmet
Dear Family,
Thank you for diligently writing me. HAPPY 2016! Can you believe we
have made it this far? We are in the same year that I'll come home.
Missions go by too fast. They are so painfully slow at the beginning,
but eventually once things get going they just don't stop. The longer
and longer I'm out the shorter and short your letters get. But
nevertheless, life moves on. It was an interesting week with the
holidays but I'm glad that they're over. People get nicer but they get
busier with the shopping. It'll be good to just pound out some good
solid weeks before the next holiday.
This past week I studied about the gift of Discernment. We may
conclude when we hear the word discernment the act of judging
correctly or reading someone's thoughts. This is part of the gift of
Discernment but it's not completely accurate. The ability to discern
is the ability to understand someone or something. The truth of all
things is revealed by the power of the Holy Ghost (Moroni 10:5). Only
the Spirit can teach us the true nature of people or ideas. To develop
the gift of Discernment we must be attending the temple regularly
(Ezekial 44:23). There we are armed with the keys to avoiding
deception. Ultimately, our ability to discern is heightened when we
increase in knowledge (Alma 32:34). I know that through study and
obedience we can develop our ability to understand, even the gift to
discern.
New Years is different as a missionary than a normal person. We spent
the evening on New Year's Eve planning for the next week. We then went
home, cleaned up the apartment, shot some rounds of pool and then went
to bed around 9:30. Sleep is just too precious not to get enough of
it. We then got all of New Year's Day to study and plan and put
together a solid attack strategy for the new year. Everyone last year
was hungover and mad at us when we knocked on their door (at least in
Cole Harbour they were). I've never had a day off on my mission
besides Christmas so it was really weird not to work.
Elder Tincher and I got a new companion this week, Elder Holtby. He
used to serve in Vancouver mission but now he's serving in Atlantic
Canada.
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!
Love,
Elder McGuire
Truth is Our Helmet
Dear Family,
Thank you for diligently writing me. HAPPY 2016! Can you believe we
have made it this far? We are in the same year that I'll come home.
Missions go by too fast. They are so painfully slow at the beginning,
but eventually once things get going they just don't stop. The longer
and longer I'm out the shorter and short your letters get. But
nevertheless, life moves on. It was an interesting week with the
holidays but I'm glad that they're over. People get nicer but they get
busier with the shopping. It'll be good to just pound out some good
solid weeks before the next holiday.
This past week I studied about the gift of Discernment. We may
conclude when we hear the word discernment the act of judging
correctly or reading someone's thoughts. This is part of the gift of
Discernment but it's not completely accurate. The ability to discern
is the ability to understand someone or something. The truth of all
things is revealed by the power of the Holy Ghost (Moroni 10:5). Only
the Spirit can teach us the true nature of people or ideas. To develop
the gift of Discernment we must be attending the temple regularly
(Ezekial 44:23). There we are armed with the keys to avoiding
deception. Ultimately, our ability to discern is heightened when we
increase in knowledge (Alma 32:34). I know that through study and
obedience we can develop our ability to understand, even the gift to
discern.
New Years is different as a missionary than a normal person. We spent
the evening on New Year's Eve planning for the next week. We then went
home, cleaned up the apartment, shot some rounds of pool and then went
to bed around 9:30. Sleep is just too precious not to get enough of
it. We then got all of New Year's Day to study and plan and put
together a solid attack strategy for the new year. Everyone last year
was hungover and mad at us when we knocked on their door (at least in
Cole Harbour they were). I've never had a day off on my mission
besides Christmas so it was really weird not to work.
Elder Tincher and I got a new companion this week, Elder Holtby. He
used to serve in Vancouver mission but now he's serving in Atlantic
Canada.
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!
Love,
Elder McGuire
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