"He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world"
That scripture is 2 Nephi 26:24, and it is my new favorite. Jesus
Christ loves us so much, we cannot comprehend it. I testify that this
scripture is true.
I strongly encourage everyone to devote themselves to an in-depth
study of the Book of Mormon. You will grow in your love for the
Savior, and there are few things that invite the Spirit into your life
like prayerful study of the Book of Mormon!
Not much time today. As always. But I will give a brief report on the week.
We had a baptism in the Ute Creek ward on Saturday! Lilly got
baptized. She was very well prepared by previous missionaries , and
she understood the doctrine well, so it was super awesome teaching
her. She is a sweet spirit for sure, and she was beaming the whole
time. She has taught me more about what it means to be a little child.
Also, today we spent some time in FOCO shopping and having a good
time. We hung out with the assistants for a bit and even got soaking
wet by playing on one of the splash pad thingys that shoot spouts of
water. It was a party. We also got to teach someone about the gospel
after that, which was cool.
Also, it snowed. Weird. People looked at us like we were crazy when we
were tracting this week haha We tried to tell them it was because we
were offering salvation but not very many of them believed us. A few
did, though, and that is what makes it all worth it.
I love you all appropriately, and I hope you have a great week.
Elder Bush
Pictures
1) Lilly's baptism!
2) mormons....
3) snow
To Mom:
i love getting your emails! I love the counsel and advice you give me, and plus i just love hearing about how everything is going back home. Thank you for all of the updates on all of the kids. I really really appreciate it.
Not a whole lot of time today, we spent most of the day shopping, trying to find some white shirts. I found some good deals on white shirts (15 bucks) so I got 3. Thank you very very much. I super appreciate that, and i hope you dont feel like im being that needy spoiled kid hahaha I never ever want to give off that impression so yeah. also, funny story, and you may have seen it on Facebook, but i ran into somebody who knows the Isoms in FOCO today! It was pretty fun. Turns out, Mike reactivated his dad, which led to his baptism! It was cool for me to see how highly he speaks of the Isoms. Funny happenings and a cool experience.
This week has been great, on Saturday Lilly was baptized! Quite a few non-members showed up, so that was really cool. Several of them were very touched by the service, so that was really neat. We also got to confer the aaronic priesthood on a recent convert this week, so that was awesome. We are always feeling motivated and pumped to keep serving and working harder and harder! I love the people here so much, and i get the feeling that I am going to be transferred in 3 weeks here, so I have decided that the best gift I can give is to just work my tail off and help build the church in this area.
I love hearing about the progress of all the kids, and i look forward to hoeing able ot spend time with them all. Exciting stuff.
This week in gospel doctrine, our lesson was also on the plan of Salvation. I learned a lot, and i will share that in a bit. First I want to comment on that first question. I think it is hard for us to make a definitive statement about Jesus Christ's knowledge before this life, but I feel like He definitely did have all knowledge and understanding. He was, after all, a god before he even came to earth. All He had left to do was to receive a body. Then when He came to earth, the veil passed over Him just as it would for anyone else, and he was required to learn all of these things again. At least, thats how i understand it, im not 100% sure. I think Jesus the Christ talks about this. Anyways, I learned about perdition on sunday. Yay. Lol but the gospel doctrine teacher did discuss perdition and I was doing my personal study later on, the Spirit taught me something cool. The root words of perdition mean "complete destruction". Satan's is called perdition because this is what he does, and this is what will happen to him. But also, i learned something cool as i was studying in Jacob. In chapter 2, verse 16 i think, he says "let not the pride of your hearts destroy your souls". Instantly the Spirit connected the two, and I realized that Satan is called perdition because 1) he is completely prideful and 2) complete pride leads to complete destruction. It was a cool thing for me to connect there and to realize that. Also, ive really been thinking a lot about what it means to take upon us the name of Christ. The followers of Satan are called the sons of perdition, and they are called after him. On the righteous spectrum, the people who loved and admired and wanted to follow Nephi called themselves after him. Should we not then be glad to take upon ourselves the name of Christ? What does it really mean to take upon ourselves His name? Are we living up to that? Idk, just some cool stuff to think about.
Also, giving it 100% is hard, but i also think its important to remember that our 100% is wayyyyyy different than Jesus Christ's 100%. Also, we cant let perfect be the enemy of good. That's what President McMurray tells me anyways. If we are doing lots and lots of good, we cant beat ourselves up for not being perfect, because there was only one person who did that.
Ive got to go, but i love you so much mom. You are truly amazing and i am grateful every day for your influence in my life. You have helped me to love God and have a desire to follow Jesus Christ, and I cant think of anything that is more important than that.
Love,
Elder Bush
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