Alright, There isn't much to say this week. Long story short, our entire apartment got sick this week. It started with Elder Shenkal and then traveled to Elder Dunoskovic and then to Me and then a little bit to Elder Seymour. But ironically, the week we were all sick we were still SUPER busy. We had two dinner appointments and we helped a less active move on wednesday and Thursday. I really don't have much to say other than that, so I suppose I will share some spiritual experiences/lessons I learned this week.
The first miracle I witnessed was when we were at our dinner appointment on Saturday night. We shared the video by Gordon B. Hinckley's talk "Lessons I learned as a Boy." Prior to watching this video I was struggling to follow the conversations (there were 8 people in total at dinner) and was pretty quiet for that reason, since I had no idea what was going on. As we watched the video I felt the spirit pretty strongly and as soon as my companion asked the family what they thought about the video, the french clicked and I could understand what was being said. Tender mercy, grateful for it.
The second experience is also concerning the video Lessons I learned as a Boy. For a long time I have never really been able to understand what the meaning of the story was, but I finally connected all the dots and I have an idea of what the video represents. (If you haven't seen the video, just youtube it.) I'll write a little description of the video.
First you will see the two boys and then you see the man working out in his farm fields. The younger boy thinks it would be a good idea to hide the man's shoes and wait to see the reaction of the man when he comes back. The older boy doesn't think that is such a good idea and suggests another experiment. The older boy discerns that the man must be very poor by the looks of his clothes and decides they should put two silver dollar coins into the man's shoes and see his reaction to that. They decide to do that. They put the silver dollars in the shoes and then hide. Eventually the man returns and puts one foot into his shoe, feels something hard and then takes out the first silver dollar. Wonder and surprise show on his face and then he puts his foot into his second shoe, feels something hard again, pulls it out and then finds another silver dollar. His emotions overcome him and he kneels down and offers a prayer of thanksgiving. In which he tells of his wife who is sick, and his children who do not have anything to eat. He thanks the Lord for this bounty from unknown hands and evokes the blessings of heaven upon them. He leaves. The boys were touched by this man's prayer and as they leave one says to the other "Now don't you have a good feeling?"
My interpretation of this video is as follows;
The two boys can represent many things. They can be missionaries, the members of the church, or the older can represent Jesus and the younger is us. These boys see a man in the distance, who is poor and without, he could represent those without the gospel of Jesus Christ. The boys hiding the coins in his shoes could represent how there are many without the gospel who are searching but don't know where to find it. Now the boys give the man the two silver dollars, which could represent the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The material value of the coins is temporal, but the spiritual value will last through the eternities. As members and missionaries we share the gospel with others and give them the fruits of the gospel, which can heal the sick (his wife) and spiritually feed the hungry (his children). We may not always know the outcome of our efforts, as the two boys didn't know the effects of giving this man 2$. But they are always blessed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ and when we are finished sharing the Gospel with others, we leave, saying "Now don't you have a good feeling?"
I'll probably have more to say next week!
Catch ya later!
Elder Molinari
Some pics of Monets Garden paintings and me touching the bottom of the louvre triangle.
No comments