Letter 3-2-09

Dear Family,

Well, another week has come and gone. Another month has come and gone. Life continues to do what it always done, move by way too fast. You gotta love it. The big highlight for me was zone conference. Zone Conference already? Yikes. I just got back to Eastland. I hope I don't get another 6 week area. I hate it when that happens, but it's happened twice already. Just so you know, that system of not telling you I got transferred till the next week after it happened worked well. I got all the letters sent to Big Spring quite promptly. Anyways, in Zone Conference we were given great counsel that I would like to share. We are going back to the basics and President Robison said that it doesn't get any more basic than testimony. Having a testimony of the gospel is very important, and the thing that president stressed is that we need to build our testimony when we don't need it. What does that mean? Well, he compared it to Valentines Day. Many people treat Valentines day as a day to love your wife. Well, it's kind of pathetic if you have to have a day set aside to love your wife. If you treat your wife differently on Valentines day than you do any other day, then you have a problem. You need to love your wife every day of the year. Same thing for Christmas. We need to always be celebrating the birth of Christ, not just during Christmas time. Same goes for your testimony. We need to always have a strong testimony, not just during church when we are called upon to bear our testimony. If you have a testimony and are striving to build it during the early times of the morning where it isn't necessary to share it with others, then you know that you have a true testimony. If you don't work on building your testimony when you don't need it, then it will diminish quite quickly and when you are called on randomly to bear it or the sudden opportunity arises to share it with a friend that needs it, then it will be no bueno for. Testimony is what builds our shield to fight this war against Satan. Guess what? We are losing the war. Satan is winning. But do you know what? We are on the winning side. In basketball, the only score that matters is the score at the end of the 4th quarter. Right now we are in the 1st quarter and we are losing by a lot. However, we know that we will win. We need to work our hardest. We won't be winning at the end of the 2nd quarter or even at the end of the 3rd, but we will win. Satan will lose. We need to keep pressing forward, doing our best, working our hardest. Not all of us will score 28 points per game, but we need to play our role and sometimes the player that scores 0 points is the best because he gets every rebound, he blocks shots, he steals the ball, and plays wonderful defense. Even though he didn't score 28 points, doesn't mean he was a bad player. We need to have a team that has 5 excellent players on it because that is the team that is hard to defend. When you have a team with mostly good players but a few bad ones, then that team is easy to beat. We need to all play hard and do our best to play our part, because although we are losing the game right now, we are on the winning team and need to stay on that winning team.

That's all for this week and speaking of Valentines Day, I appreciate those who sent that Valentines box. I have been enjoying that. :) Have a great week. Work Hard and Choose Joy... :)

Elder Adam R Droge The DrogeMiester