Hey family and friends
So this week has been crazy for all the wrong reasons lol. So we really haven't found anyone to teach in my area for a few weeks now and the area we are in is an area where the people aren't so nice. This week we had another person draw a gun on us and a couple of people telling us to leave because their neighbors will shoot us. We also had another guy threaten to arrest us if he saw us near his property or on his street again. Jim is finally getting baptized this week! We have his interview lined up for this Friday and he's getting baptized on Thursday. Our ward might be getting kicked out of our building so that's awesome. Sorry about the non day to day format this week there's just not a lot of things that happened. So back to our building we are currently holding church in a middle school because our chapel is being built but something is always wrong so the finish date always gets pushed back. School starts here in Florida this week so if you could pray we get to keep meeting in our building that would be great. Now to the fun stuff.
Miracles.
So this week for my personal study I have been taking a challenge left by Elder Bednar which is to get a blank copy of the Book of Mormon (got plenty of those around here) and to mark it with one subject. I have been doing that with the Doctrine of Christ. It's going so slow because everything applies so I'm marking everything. It has really helped me to realize though how much the Book or Mormon as a whole is a testament of Jesus Christ not just a few chapters here or there. I was also reading in the Bible and I found a verse that really is so true in every situation. So a little backstory to this verse. The prophet Elisha was at a certain city with one of his servants and the city was surrounded one night by force's of an enemy nation and when they woke up they saw that the hill side was covered with this other nations forces and the servant of Elisha said master what shall we do and this was Elishas response:
2 Kings 6:16- Fear Not, for they that be with us is more than they that be with them. This is so true. This verse is backed up by D&C:84:88 which reads as I will go before you. I will be on your right hand and on your left. My spirit shall be in your heart and mine angels shall be round about you to bear you up. This verse is so true and powerful. And another verse that backs this up is DC:82:10 Which reads I the Lord am bound when ye do what I say but when ye do not what I say ye have no promise. What this means is that heavenly father will always help us out when we are keeping his commandments and that all the promises in the scriptures are applicable to us as long as we are keeping his commandments. The even greater thing we have though is the atonement because none of us are perfect and we all will mess up. The Atonement of Jesus Christ allows us to be forgiven of our sins. There is a line from a song that describes how heavenly father feels about us and why the atonement is an act of love. "Come unto Christ. He's calling your name. He's waiting for you with arms open wide. Come unto Christ. This is such a powerful line. It is so true though. The world makes it seem like there's never any hope in the world or that once you've messed up that's it but I bear my Solemn witness that this is never true and never will be the case. Our heavenly father is always going to be there and he will always love us no matter what we do. He might be disappointed in us but as long as we ask him for help and for forgiveness he will always help us out.
That's all I really got for this week peoples.
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| Doesn't Elder Rich look great???? |
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