Humility

HOLA MIS AMORESSSSS!!

Otra semana y mas experiencias inolvidables! :) 

This week was full of learning. I learned two things:

1. Humility is a very important Christlike attribute.

2. Don't play with your health. ;)

Number One: Humility

    This week I learned how to be a little more humble. In a talk I like President Benson says:

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing.

The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means “hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.” It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God’s. When we direct our pride toward God, it is in the spirit of “my will and not thine be done.” As Paul said, they “seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.” 

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren’t interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s. 

In the words of C. S. Lewis: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. … It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.”

Fear of men’s judgment manifests itself in competition for men’s approval. The proud love “the praise of men more than the praise of God.” (John 12:42–43.) Our motives for the things we do are where the sin is manifest. Jesus said He did “always those things” that pleased God. (John 8:29.) Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men’s, we will have self-esteem. 

The antidote for pride is humility—meekness, submissiveness. (See Alma 7:23.) It is the broken heart and contrite spirit. (See 3 Ne. 9:20; 3 Ne. 12:19; D&C 20:37; D&C 59:8; Ps. 34:18; Isa. 57:15; Isa. 66:2.) As Rudyard Kipling put it so well:

The tumult and the shouting dies;

The captains and the kings depart.

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,

An humble and a contrite heart.

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,

Lest we forget, lest we forget.

(Hymns, 1985, no. 80.)

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble or we can be compelled to be humble. Alma said, “Blessed are they who humble themselves without being compelled to be humble.” (Alma 32:16.)

Let us choose to be humble.

He goes on to explain how we can choose to be humble. Humility takes us to be more like our Savior and that is the central goal of our life on Earth. 

Number Two: Health

     jajaja This week I got sick! I spent an entire afternoon walking home to the apartment throwing up. Good times. I learned that when the mission nurse tells you that you have gastritis and that you probably shouldn't eat to much greasy food, it's in your best interest that you listen to her. But don't worry! All is well and I have recovered. I'm back to eating tacos ;) no se crea jajaj. 

This week was full of ups and downs. A few scary situations and a few miracles. We are working hard to keep God's work moving forward!!! :) 

I love you all and wish you all the best this week! 

I'll talk to y'all soon! 

Cariño, 

Hna Thompson 

(side note and this weeks challenge: gift a book of mormon to someone!)