I hope you've had a great week this week.
You are familiar with the saying, "You have to see it to believe it". I watched a video this past week with a National Geographic photographer who talked about his experience in the field. His saying is, "You have to believe it to see it". The point that he made was that as a photographer, he was often assigned to parts of the world where there was little or no outward beauty. His challenge was to to find and photograph the people and things that made that area of the world uniquely beautiful. Over his career as a photographer, he learned to assume that the beauty was there and then to go about the work of documenting it.
That is a profound perspective. Quite often, I get caught up in the moment and forget to find beauty in everything and everyone around me. I think we all do. However, you are in engaged in teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to his spirit children. This one fact should heighten your awareness to the fact that all of God's children are beautiful because they are ultimately created in his image.
It's fall. I love this time of year. I went for a ride up Ricks Canyon yesterday. It is really something, to be "in the moment" in the mountains. I think mountains were created as an evidence of God's creative power. When I'm there, I feel at one and when I'm done with my ride, I'm rejuvenated. I hope that you have similar experiences as you study the scriptures and reflect on your time and efforts in the mission field.
Keep the faith. I love you,
Dad
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