(5/28/2019)

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Dear friends and family,

I've definitely been humbled this week. I feel like God has broken me down quite a bit. Funny how you see your flaws so much more deeply the more you try to follow God. I always thought my flaws were the big things. Now I see it's actually the multitude of small things, especially my attitude towards God...I have mistreated His children and doubted Him in so many ways so many times. I think that's why I was compelled to be humble this week. Left me praying angrily for an hour or so before suddenly becoming aware of my multitude of flaws in a way that made me understand that God is God while I am definitely not. The negative attitudes and perceptions I've had throughout my life are a perfect example of man resisting God's truth, resisting the Spirit. And somehow I frequently judge others by their flaws...God reminded me that if He really wanted to, He could present me with a 25-page, double-spaced essay on why I am an intensely flawed human being. But He doesn't do that. Why don't I show that same mercy to others?

A new thing in the mission we experienced this week is the training specialists coming on exchanges with us (picture attached). It's something President Stratford came up with...they have no area, they just go on exchanges all week long, a different companionship every day. They pretty much show us how missionary work is supposed to be done. When they came, they helped us find more people to teach in a single day than I've found the past, like, 2 or 3 months.

Humbled.

That night I prayed and got more humbled with the essay thing.

What will come next...?

- Elder Gallagher
 
 

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