Meh.

I. Am. Bored.

Cell Phone Batteries

Do you ever have moments where you are just tired? Not physically, but in all the other ways? Mentally, emotionally, spiritually? I feel like that right now. Just drained. In the words of one of my favorite songs, I feel like I have a "battered soul" the world just seems to be harassing it right now. Maybe it's because I am just 36 days away from heading out on my mission, Elder Holland said that moments before you are about to experience something spiritually life altering, there can be incredible amounts of opposition from the adversary. It's odd but I just feel stuck, at this weird state of being right now. But just as in the first vision, where the pillar of light appeared above Joseph Smiths head the moment he thought the darkness was going to overtake him I know God is nearer than we think when we feel its impossible to go any further experiencing what we are experiencing. I once heard it put this way: Cell phone batteries must not be plugged in until the battery is dead or at least very low. If they are they become weak over time and can only hold power to that point before needing to be plugged in again. So by not constantly plugging in our half used cell phone batteries, we are making them stronger, able to sustain themselves for longer amounts of time. Just like with cell phone batteries sometimes God may hold back his heavenly help in trials so that we become stronger and self sustaining in those trials rather than weak and quick to die out. "All these things shall work together for your good." Just have to keep that in mind...keep on keepin' on.