Dear Family:
We had a lot of meeting in Tacoma this week. Training for sister Daines and also training for the new mormon.org media blitz that will be hitting the Tacoma area soon. It is so crazy the things that the Brethren are doing now. They said the devil has had control of the Internet for so long and its time to take it back. I will soon be making a profile. I encourage all of you to do the same.
How many of you have done any of my challenges? I asked you to read the book of Mormon, to share personal insights from it, to make a mormon.org profile...anything like that been done? hmmmm.
OH!! before I forget!!! My new house address is:
11421 A St. S. #206
Tacoma, WA 98444
Send me letters at your pleasure and mine:)
My companion's name is sister Daines. It is so interesting....the Lord sends us on missions...and what is the role of a missionary? to teach and to baptize. No more complicated than that. Well When it comes to teaching, the spirit only helps you as much as you are prepared for his help. In preaching the gospel that comes easy because you study it for an hour on your own, but for teaching another person how to teach or how to work with integrity and the desire that the lord gives...that takes knowing how to repent and use the Atonement. You would think that teaching must be such an important skill if the Lord sends us out to learn how to teach. What are the effects of teaching? Will we ever know all of them? So much of what we do in the church is
Well now I've just been rambling.
We went to the beach today. elder Gilles touched a jelly fish. hahaha like over and over. We had thrown a rock and thought it was pinned down..so in attempt to save it...we learned that it was fine..but probably just dying anyway. We held star fish. More crabs. but I didnt' eat any this time. Bahahah we ran down the train tracks like fugitives after scampering down this drop off. much fun.
We are still working with that wonderful little family who came to church. We showed them the book of Mormon but they weren't able to come to church this week because the mom was sick, she just had a baby.
It has started raining again. yay! I am pretty exhausted right now... maybe we will get to go home and take a rest.
What are the things you need for repentance? You need time, a law, and a punishment. This earth is our probationary time. Christ is the law. He was broken so that he could give us a law. The law of Christ is the law we can live. He is merciful and ever faithful. Like a lam before the shearer is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. He had all the power of heaven and earth and directed it all in our behalf, making a propitiation for the laws that we break. I am so humbled by this great Man. He Is the Son of God. He has all power in heaven and earth and in death and hell. He is my King. I am not perfect. He knows this and has given me laws that I can keep. Be willing to remember him. As I take his name upon me each week and feel the atonement give me a new start, I Do have his spirit to be with me always. It is that spirit that gives me hope and power.
I love the book of Mormon. spend time with it. It will teach you and change you. It will be the greatest relief you can find from the world of hate and revenge. You have two forces to work against: the natural man and the devil. Both forces of entropy and evil must be overcome. Share with your friends and family how to overcome them both. Many of the world only knows about overcoming one. We need to fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ to fully overcome them both. The covenants and ordinances directed under the priesthood authority of God and sealed by the holy spirit of promise change our humanly natures into something God like. I know Christ is the mediator of the new and everlasting covenant. He has prepared a way for each of us to leave this frail existence and come unto him. That we may each do this I pray to God the Almighty Father in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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