"Be of Good Cheer"

"A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without 'opposition in all things,' as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact be less rewarding and less ennobling than one which confronts--even frequently confronts-difficulty and disappointment and sorrow."

Elder Holland

 

I think about the many difficulties and endless opposition we as missionaries encounter every day here and yet we keep going.
I have personally found the process of keeping myself going not an easy one
because the path I am now on is an up hill climb and climbing up a hill is in opposition to my desire to be on the easier path which is flat!  
 Richard and I now recognized the paths we were on when we were home had become too easy for us, so the Lord placed us on another path, one leading upward to Him,
a path that requires hard work and frequent difficulties .
This scripture found in Isaiah describes my journey on the higher path I am now traveling .
"I will bring the blind by a way they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known:  I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.  These things I will do unto them, and not forsake them." 

Taking the higher path required all my strength, so soon I quickly discovered I have many weaknesses, but as I continue to climb I find myself getting stronger and stronger.
Weaknesses are humbling and bring us to our knees, which I know is what the Lord had in mind for me all along, He wanted to lead me to Him and in the process of finding Him I am finding myself and as I travel this new path I am learning it is easier when I am of "Good Cheer."

We should honor the Savior's
declaration to
"be of good cheer"
(Matthew 14:27)
Indeed, it seems to me we may be more
guilty of breaking that commandment
than almost any other!
Elder Holland

from carrie with love