[Title refers to this song from the movie Holes.]
3/4/2024
大家好！Hey Everyone!
It’s March Already! Crazy how that happens!
Remember that time that I was mocking the snow in Logan? I spoke too soon. The weather was about -15 Celsius and somehow still managed about 7 inches of snow! On Saturday afternoon we had planned to hand out some fliers, however we could see that that wasn’t going to happen with the storm we were experiencing. (I wish I had a picture of a phantom car or two we saw on the side of the road. . . scary.) Instead, we decided to drive around a neighborhood and see who was shoveling and then hop out and help them. Boy, was it a lot of shoveling! (I had the holes soundtrack playing in my head the whole time. . . odd.) That then gave us an opportunity to place two Chinese copies of the Book of Mormon!
We had some member meals this week!! (miracles do happen) I tried Hot Pot for the first time! A retired couple in the branch made a bunch of stuff for us to try Hot Pot, and it seemed pretty cool. It’s a lot like pho that you make for yourself at the dinner table. We had a meal that was about a half hour north of us in Airdrie, but it was surprisingly nice to get out of Calgary. I never knew I would miss empty fields of cows and hay that much.
This is usually the part where I would write some inspiring scripture message or some cool invitation that’s helped me be happier. . .Today it’s more of a rant on an earlier idea. Remember when I was talking about action/inaction a few months ago? Well I’m pretty darn sure now action is always better than inaction. Inaction most often seems to give up our agency, our God-given right to choose. The thing I think causes inaction the most is worry and fear. The devil is the greatest proponent of fear, and God is most often inviting us to combat “What if” with frequent direction to “Fear Not.” The phrase “take no thought” from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount has been on my mind lately in relation to worrying or anxiety as we would call it now. I’ve always had the tendency to worry, perhaps thinking that more concern would prevent bad circumstances from happening. But that rarely actually helps. What does help is having confidence -- having faith (an attribute that implies action). As Christ said, we “cannot add one cubit” to our situation by “taking thought” or worrying about something, the only thing worry does is make us unhappy. I’m hoping to internalize this a little more and take more steps to develop faith instead of anxiety. I’d invite y’all next time you’re in a “But what if…” situation, say a little prayer to gain some confidence and faith to say, “No worries, It’ll be okay.”
A Story by Elder Baer. You’re Welcome. Stay cool everyone! Enjoy some 27 Days ‘till Easter!
爱你们!
–熊长老
Photos:
Dinner up north
Blurry photographic evidence of the white witch continuing her magic
Last week's finalists on Survivor [referring to the branch hike to Nose Park Hill - see last week's post]
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