Hello everyone! I love you all!
This week was super interesting. Elder Bunnell and I both went through tough nights where we were frustrated at each other and didn't talk to one another. I was first and then he was rhe next night haha. On the night I was feeling frustrated I had some things on my mind. I was feeling sad because I didn't want my mission to end. I love my mission so much. I love the people and the gospel. I love Jesus. I have had so many wonderful experiences and I was just not wanting it to end. I was also feeling very inadequate. Like I didn't know enough. While I was in this saddened state the Spirit led me to a song and a talk. The song line that stood out to me was "Jesus Listening can hear the songs I cannot sing." (Hymn 227, There is Sunshine in My Soul Today) Jesus knew what I was going through. The talk was "Songs Sung and Unsung" by Elder Holland. He quoted the hymn a lot in his talk and he said this" On those days when we feel a little out of tune, a little less than what we think we see or hear in others, I would ask us, especially the youth of the Church, to remember it is by divine design that not all the voices in God’s choir are the same. It takes variety—sopranos and altos, baritones and basses—to make rich music" I learned that my voice matters. I can make a difference. I am needed here right now. But I was still concerned about my mission being done soon. I than read this from the talk" Brothers and sisters, we live in a mortal world with many songs we cannot or do not yet sing. But I plead with each one of us to stay permanently and faithfully in the choir, where we will be able to savor forever that most precious anthem of all—“the song of redeeming love.” I can stay in the choir when I finish. I can always show I believe in Christ.
Love yall!
Elder Spencer
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