Week 21: John 15:10-11

I hit 5 months on Saturday and it has absolutely flown by.  I still feel like I've been out for a week.  There have been many times where I have thought about going home.  I've thought about throwing in the towel and calling it quits.  The only reason I am still out here is because there are constant tender mercies that revamp my motivation.  There are times where I feel I've been pushed to the limit and Christ swoops in and lifts me up.  I know that we all have times in our lives when we feel like we can't go on, but if we let Christ help us, give Him our burdens, and let the power of the atonement work, we will find ourselves having enough strength to keep going.

Alma 7:11-13 "And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.  And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.  Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me."

Elder Poulsen