I'm feeling better! (haha) I'm not sick
anymore. I've got a little bit of a stuffy nose, but it's all good.
Thankfully it's not a problem anymore. I had a fever on Monday, I
guess, because there was no pressure to do anything because it was
P-day. My body just took the time to recover I guess (haha).
We had a fun week. We had to get our
oil changed, and that took up a little time. But, we were also able
to do service at the library. We helped them move around books for
this book sale they were going to have. That was fun. Me, Elder
Wright and the four Samoan elders from the other Samoan wards sang a
song at a baptism that the Lake Otis ward was having. It's "When
I am Baptized", the primary song. We sang one verse in English
and the other two in Samoan. Sunday was probably the busiest day of
my mission so far. We were all over the place, visiting a ton of
people. It was nice, because we were able to help out a lot of
people. There was this one lady who was having a really rough time.
We kind of showed up at the right time. She was smoking and feeling
pretty depressed because of some things that have been going on. We
kind of helped her get out of her funk and shared a little scripture
with her and encouraged her and smiled. She didn't want to smoke
anymore, so that was nice (haha). It was just kind of neat to see
that the Lord takes us to where we need to go.
I read a really cool verse in Doctrine
and Covenants 93 verse one. It lists five things that we can do
in order to see and know God, so in order to see and know that He is.
The first is to forsake our sins. The second is to come unto Him. The
third is to call on His name. The Fourth is to obey His voice, and
the fifth is to keep His commandments. So if we do those five things,
then we can have the privilege of seeing God and knowing that He is.
And of course, if we read in Doctrine
and Covenants section 88 version 68,
it says that will come in the Lord's time and in His own way. I
thought that was a really neat scripture, because the other ones just
say like, "blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see
God" or you know, other promises. None of them quite say what we
need to do to be pure in heart and to see God. I like that version
[D&C 93:1] because it lists out those five things as
something I can do to work towards that.
We have been visiting these one people
who (haha) are actually going to be moving down to Utah and get
married soon. I like them a lot. It's nice to see them getting
excited about the temple and about the Church and everything. I
will probably end up seeing them when I get back to Utah. We'll see.
That would be really cool because they are really fun. They are
planning on going through the Salt Lake Temple. I'm really happy for
them.
Yeah, that's kind of been this week. It
wasn't fun being sick, but it's fun being better (haha). It was a fun
week, and we helped out a lot of people.
I just want to bear my testimony that I
know the Book of Mormon is true. I know that this is Christ's church
on the earth. I am thankful for the opportunity to serve my Heavenly
Father in any way He wants me to because I've notice that as we do
that, it provides a lot of strength to the Church if we will just
work at doing our duty and being ourselves. I say that in the name of
Jesus Christ, amen.
Love, Elder Record
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