🌼🍍 - 2/3/20
Hello friends and family!
Thank you all for your kind responses last week, they meant so much! I am so grateful to have the opportunity to learn and grow in the gospel here on a mission. It is amazing the different perspective I feel I have gained when studying and learning each day. I've read through the Book of Mormon many times but realized with a different perspective it is so much different. I have always read it to just simply read it while now I am reading it to teach it. I quickly have realized how little I actually know ... 😂Nonetheless, I am learning a lot and am grateful for all the awesome experiences that come when serving a mission.
This week was good, nothing too crazy happened. We had a great baptismal interview for Nathan and Natalie who are SO excited to be baptized this week! I got sick but so is everyone else in my area so no surprise there, just the time of year! It has also been in the high 70s/80s this week so it most definitely does not feel like February. Just enjoying it now until the Summer hits. Zone conference was also this week and went AMAZING. We learned so much especially from reading out of Elder Callister's talk "Becoming a Consecrated Missionary". It is so good, I recommend it for sure!
On the spiritual side of things I spent a lot of time studying in Mosiah this week, specifically King Benjamin. One of my favorite chapters of the Book of Mormon actually is Mosiah 4, it is so so good! I got to study that more in depth this week and realized a few things.
Starting out King Benjamin talks a lot of God and who He is. About how we can receive
Salvation. In verses 9-12 he goes over some things we need to believe. Some of which are in God, in the Creation, in His plan, in repentance, in forgiveness, and in joy from obtaining a remission of our sins. He talks about this process of repentance and how important it is. Later towards verse 20 he talks about the Spirit and how important that is in our lives; what it can do for us and how much we need to have it. He then talks about all of us being beggars and how important the 2nd greatest commandment is to live in order to retain a remission of our sins. How we need to impart of our substance and lift and support others. Then I realized it all sounded very familiar. Since President Nelson became the prophet, he has talked about very specific things. Some of those being repentance, the power of the Spirit, and the need for the humanitarian efforts of the church (the 2nd greatest commandment). Mosiah 4 is what President Nelson has been teaching us! It literally has outlined what he has asked us to focus on. Not only that, but Elder Holland points out that Mosiah 4 outlines two very important details about repentance. We obtain a remission of our sins through the process of confessing and forsaking our sins to God, we retain a remission of our sins by turning outward and loving Gods children. By loving God and turning to him we can be forgiven, but we only retain that remission of our sins by loving others. Thus, living the two greatest commandments are the only way for us to be saved.
Salvation. In verses 9-12 he goes over some things we need to believe. Some of which are in God, in the Creation, in His plan, in repentance, in forgiveness, and in joy from obtaining a remission of our sins. He talks about this process of repentance and how important it is. Later towards verse 20 he talks about the Spirit and how important that is in our lives; what it can do for us and how much we need to have it. He then talks about all of us being beggars and how important the 2nd greatest commandment is to live in order to retain a remission of our sins. How we need to impart of our substance and lift and support others. Then I realized it all sounded very familiar. Since President Nelson became the prophet, he has talked about very specific things. Some of those being repentance, the power of the Spirit, and the need for the humanitarian efforts of the church (the 2nd greatest commandment). Mosiah 4 is what President Nelson has been teaching us! It literally has outlined what he has asked us to focus on. Not only that, but Elder Holland points out that Mosiah 4 outlines two very important details about repentance. We obtain a remission of our sins through the process of confessing and forsaking our sins to God, we retain a remission of our sins by turning outward and loving Gods children. By loving God and turning to him we can be forgiven, but we only retain that remission of our sins by loving others. Thus, living the two greatest commandments are the only way for us to be saved.
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. There is evidence of that everywhere. He loves us so much. He wants us to be happy! That is the purpose of life, to have joy! I know through living the teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ we can and will experience joy.
I love you all!
Sister Callister
We met a turtle named Blaze (he was so fast half the pictures he wasn't even in) and here are all the Sisters at the tie exchange with our Goodwill ties😂
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