That temperature thing made me laugh
because I would love to have your weather right now! And that is so
great that everyone is doing so good right now. Carli is already leaving
"noooooo." And breanna is gonna have a ton of scars on her legs from
her new board or from ryans karate.. I am not sure which one. Dad is
gonna be a fitness model when I see him next.. Mom will have a gardening
show on the Oprah show. Curt and Vanessa will be professors at BYU
Provo before I know it and I will come back and have no idea what in the
world is going on. But I am happy that everything is so
swell. I had the best week on my entire mission because Elder Holstrom
and Elder Holland came and just blew me away with what they had to say
to us. Elder Holstrom invited us to take this message and make changes to our
lives and mission so he set up the playing field for Elder Holland. And
then Elder Holland just came and he was the best. He cracked me up one second
and the next he was humbling me and the next the spirit was there. he
was basically begging us to bring a convert home with us.. Being
ourselves.. they are not asking from us numbers they are asking that we
convert ourselves and serve the Lord with everything we have so that we
can have the spirit with us at all times and so we can have a lot of
success here in the mission and then we can come back and have the lives
that heavenly father would have liked. He told us about Moses 1:39...
And he said "This is not Burger King.. You cannot have it your way..
Why? Because this is "MY WORK AND MY GLORY" He told us that when we
finally figure out that this is the work of the Lord and not our own
that is when we will see miracles in the lives of others. He then was
talking about in Helaman how they taught with authority and power. And
how he wrote that 3 times in like 3 verses. And he asked us.. "Why does
he say that 3 times.. He is writing this on plates of gold with a huge
ice pick and he takes the time to write it 3 times that they had power
and authority!" He explained that we need to have that power and that we
need to make the ground shake like it did for Alma for our
investigators that we have the salvation in our hands and if we do the
work like the Lord wants they will be converts but we need to be those
converts first. I loved it all and I made some new goals for myself on
the mission. Because he also told us what dad always tells me. That this
is the only time I can serve the Lord 24/7.. Take advantage of it!
I know this is the only true church. I want to
represent it in a way that God would be pleased with me. God Lives and
Christ directs this work.
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