Class this morning was on presentations, which is something I'm pretty confident in (overly confident?) so whatever. Two big presentations next week, yay. Didn't do much in the afternoon. Institute was interesting. Not many people showed up and it was a pretty heavy. We discussed why we suffer, why there is adversity and what that means. At the end we were talking about how adversity contributes to our own personal testimony and as someone said, it's hard to believe any testimony grows without the waters of adversity. Certainly true for me. How else did I turn from a well read but testimony less elder to the man I am today? It was every trial I was faced with, failed or not. It was the pains I felt, and feel, moving through life. It's because there's no way to feel God's love quite like when you're unable to love yourself and only wish for death.
I didn't say it quite like that though. Instead I talked about how I'm arrogant and prideful and need trials to knock me down a couple pegs. Which is true but not the full truth. And for that audience, that was okay.
Tomorrow is a grading day. So is Friday probably. Saturday, Sunday and Monday I need to make slides. The next week and a half is going to suck.
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