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Thoughts on a Sunday Afternoon.

I was afraid that my testimony was dwindling...  I had been thinking about all of the devotionals I had missed out on and institute lessons I hadn't attended in these past seven months.  I was worried that I wasn't the same person I had been,  that being in China had pushed me away from what I knew and loved,  the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Maybe I have changed... -I haven't taken sacrament since I've arrived in China.  I don't have the blessing of having a preisthood holder here to do the ordinance.  -I am so far away from the Hong Kong Temple that I haven't attended,  just that is so different then SLC where I'm used to having a few within a fifteen minute drive from my home.  -I don't even know what my Bishop looks like because "church" is a conference call with members around mainland China.  All of these things have changed for me.  I'm the only member in ZhuZhou,  a city of two million.  If there was ever a time in my life wher