Yesterday we were teaching
a lady named Marta for the first time. I was speaking, but I paused so that I
could think of the right word to explain what I wanted to say without being
disrespectful. And while I was trying to think of the right word, she said,
“You don’t even know what you’re talking about. You’re losing your marbles. How
can you preach to me when you don’t even know what you believe?”
It was one of those
moments in life where you felt fine 2 seconds ago, but now you really don’t. I
know exactly what I’m talking, and I know exactly what I believe. (I may be
losing my marbles, but that’s beside the point haha.) But simply because I wanted
to be loving and respectful, she saw me pause and said those things to me with
a face full of disgust. A few months ago, I might have gotten mad. But I can
honestly say that when you let yourself be moldable in the Master’s hands, He
will change you. It is not easy or fast. It is so painful because you are being
broken apart so that you can be put back together—a better person. I have not
yet become the person I want to be, but I have gained a testimony that through
sacrifice and the sacred steps and covenants the Lord has offered
us—repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and the temple—the
impossible becomes reality.
Last night I took out some
pictures I have of Christ and looked through them. I lingered on the one where
He was washing His disciples’ feet. I felt like yesterday I got a very small
chance to wash Marta’s feet. I invite you all to persevere and become the
person the Lord created you to be. When they asked Michelangelo how he achieved
his masterpiece David, he said, "I saw the face in the marble, and I
carved until I set it free." I know the Lord sees the masterpiece in every
one of you, and is trying to set it free. As much as the carving and chipping
away at the marble hurts, we must let Him work if we want to be set free. D&C
122:7.
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