3/30/15

Dear Loved Ones,

So this week has flown by!
So we have been working hard! Just trying to settle in and get everything up and running. So we have been doing a lot of service. Please pray that we will find some new investigators! :) We currently have two... I finally met one of them last night. Both of them have been going through some health struggles and they need prayers. I am excited to work with them! It always comes back to reading the Book of Mormon and praying to know if it is true, with faith in Christ and real intent.

I'm just going to share something that I have been learning:

We dont' have to be perfect. We just have to rely on Jesus Christ and do our best. He is there. I know that He loves me. I have felt Him close.
Satan will do everything he can to make us feel like our weaknesses and imperfections keep us from having a relationship with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, but that is not true.

I have found that on my mission, the times that I come to know the Savior Jesus Christ better are the times where I am so exhausted by my own sins, shortcomings and imperfections that I find myself desperate, on my knees. Those prayers where my soul cries out are the prayers where I feel my Heavenly Father's love come washing over me in light. There is a line in Preach My Gospel, which is basically modern scripture, which says something along the lines of "[Our Heavenly Father] weeps with us when we suffer, and rejoices when we do what is right."  I know that that is true.

 “And if men come unto me I will show them their weaknesses. I give men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.” [Ether 12:27]

I learned a lot from Nephi this week about how to rely on the Savior, and how REMEMBERING is a huge part of that:
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng

http://www.mormon.org/easter