So yesterday, I travelled up to Edinburgh for a missionary choir practice (like last Easter and Christmas) It will be performing the first week in December, and will be brilliant!
Sunday night, we caught a train into Glasgow and stayed at the Chinatown elders flat, then travelled into Edinburgh by train in the morning. Then, as we were last ones out, we just got a train into Glasgow, arriving about 9, so we stayed at Chinatown's flat again. Then, we had a district meeting (in Glasgow again) for which I was exhausted. But there was a fantastic training given by Sister Hobbs. She had everyone in the district be very hard-hearted, while my companion and I tried to talk with everyone. After ~8 times of being rejected, I started feeling Charity - that is, the pure love of Christ. As I talked with the last two people, I had such a burning desire to help them come to the joy that I had felt, it being compounded by how stressed and sick I felt recently. The penultimate person broke character, saying she felt horrible rejecting us, and the last one being genuinley interested (as she was meant to be). I felt the spirit so much, stronger than I had for weeks. :) It was so powerful for me. As I had been away from my flat the last 2 mornings, I had rubbish personal studies, and felt spiritually exhausted, untethered from God. I realized this morning how much our physical and spiritual bodies correlate: we must eat to get energy to exercise to grow physically - so it is spiritually. Though we may be spiritually strong, if we don't eat (read scriptures &c) we will become weak, and eventually die. So that was a really powerful lesson to myself. :)
Right now I'm a bit snuffley, feeling a bit congested. But! I'm doing well enough otherwise. :)
Thanks for all your letters!
Cheers!
– Elder William Kevin Black
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