Hello family and friends, how are you all enjoying the snow? This last week I was blessed with the opportunity of hearing from one of the 15 prophets and apostles that we have on this earth. Elder Quentin L. Cook spoke to us on Saturday along with Elder Craig C. Christenson of the presidency of the seventy along with Kevin R. Duncan of the area presidency after a long week of anticipation. It was a great blessing to see and hear from them as they allowed us to shake their hands and speak with them shortly. They spoke to us of the importance of love for the work, finding, and it was a wonderful and spiritual experience for all present.
This week I wish to leave you all with a few short words about the principle of Gratitude. Gratitude can be in different ways, such as the Gratitude for the many blessings that we receive daily. This Gratitude is an easy thing. Anyone can be happy and grateful when life is going good and all we see is the sun shining. The Gratitude that we all need to develop and work for is the Gratitude for our trials. I say "work for" because it is an up-hill battle for us to develop this attribute of Christ. It is very hard to see that speck of light at the end of the tunnel as we only see darkness and problems all around us, but as we invite Christ into our lives and ask for his help, he will bring overpower the darkness, no matter how thick it may seem. One way that it is referred to in the scriptures is hope. As we read Moroni 7:42 we are taught that we must have faith to have hope, that hope comes from being humble as it teaches us in verse 43 and in verse 41 we are taught in what we shall hope. These three scriptures help us understand how we can be happy and grateful no matter what the trial may be.
I love you all and wish you all the best!
While we were with the other mission for the conference I got to see my son and brother in the mission. so here is the picture of us four the first day together.
This week I wish to leave you all with a few short words about the principle of Gratitude. Gratitude can be in different ways, such as the Gratitude for the many blessings that we receive daily. This Gratitude is an easy thing. Anyone can be happy and grateful when life is going good and all we see is the sun shining. The Gratitude that we all need to develop and work for is the Gratitude for our trials. I say "work for" because it is an up-hill battle for us to develop this attribute of Christ. It is very hard to see that speck of light at the end of the tunnel as we only see darkness and problems all around us, but as we invite Christ into our lives and ask for his help, he will bring overpower the darkness, no matter how thick it may seem. One way that it is referred to in the scriptures is hope. As we read Moroni 7:42 we are taught that we must have faith to have hope, that hope comes from being humble as it teaches us in verse 43 and in verse 41 we are taught in what we shall hope. These three scriptures help us understand how we can be happy and grateful no matter what the trial may be.
I love you all and wish you all the best!
While we were with the other mission for the conference I got to see my son and brother in the mission. so here is the picture of us four the first day together.
This is a picture of the whole mission
These are in a house where an old retired doctor lives and he rents to some missionaries his upstairs apartment and while I was on divisions in San Jose he let us see his collection of corvettes. I have not seen one in my whole mission and then I saw three in one garage, it was a Mini- miracle. haha. they were so pretty!
It is so amazing to see how spiritually mature our boys have become as they've become men over the past year and a half! Beautiful letter!
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