Bonjour ma famille et mes amis!

 

Bonjour ma famille et mes amis!

 

Hopefully, your days have been filled with happiness and good fortune is smiling upon them! Forgive me for not writing last week. I will try to update you as well as I can!

 

The MTC is going well! Classes have been fun (maybe a little too fun ha-ha) and the Spirit that I have felt has really impressed my mind. My district is awesome, and the inside jokes right now are at a premium! When we learn about the Gospel inside our classes I truly learn something new each time. Both my teachers and my classmates have wonderful insights that regularly blow my mind.

 

As for the francais itself there are highs and there are the lows. Somedays I feel like I am quickly improving and other days I feel as if I plateaued. Learning the language is like crossing a vast and unknowable sea to a promised land. Sometimes the waters are smooth like glass. Sometimes you don't move an inch for a whole day. Other times the waves seem to be too high and the winds too fierce. I try not to get frustrated when I see these obstacles because life in general is a vast and unknowable sea. We must take courage in our Savior Jesus Christ and trust in Him to help us across the stormy seas of life.

 

1 Nephi 17:13-14

 

13 “And I will also be your light in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the promised land; and ye shall know that it is by me that ye are led.”

14 “Yea, and the Lord said also that: After ye have arrived in the promised land, ye shall know that I, the Lord, am God; and that I, the Lord, did deliver you from destruction..."

 

I bear solemn witness that if we trust in the Lord Jesus Christ that we will overcome the trials in our life. I bear solemn witness that after we do so we will "know the Lord" and the joy we feel because of knowing Him as our Savior will be astonishing and life changing!

 

Ether 12:25-26

 

26 “And when I had said this, the Lord spake unto me, saying: Fools mock, but they shall mourn; and my grace is sufficient for the meek, that they shall take no advantage of your weakness;”

27 “And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."

 

Whether it be a language, a recurring sin, speaking in public, or anything that besets us, the Lord will help us overcome. I know that I am fully relying on the Lord right now. This has been a very humbling experience because no matter how much I think I know; it is nothing compared to the Lord's knowledge. He will help us overcome all things.

 

I also had the opportunity to give my farewell talk and go to the temple. Both were amazing opportunities and I am deeply grateful for all that were able to come, to either event. I was happy to give my talk and I bore my heart to you (even if it was a bit long, sporadic, and confusing). I truly desired share my love for everyone and to bear my testimony of love for the Lord. I hope that as you listened to my message you felt inspired to live love.

 

As for the temple: what an awe-inspiring blessing. The covenants were full of tender mercies of the Lord. The ordinances display the love of a tender Father. The experience itself was rich in symbolism about Christ. At the end of the day, after all we have done, if we repent and come unto him and are obedient to him, he will save us because we have shown our love for him and He loves us.

 

It's all about love. Live Love.

Till next time, à bientôt et à révior!

 

Love, Elder Habel