Hello family!
So this week was good. We had the opportunity to be able to go to Zone Training Meeting, my last one. It was really weird to say that. But it was good. We set a Zone Goal for baptisms, and received some training from the Zone Leaders! It was way sweet. We now have a really good baptismal goal of 8 for the next 3 months. I prayed about it, just as the Zone Leaders did, and I know it is reachable.
We also had a way good lesson with Christian and Sam. We taught them about the Doctrine of Christ. They hinted at hoping to set a baptismal date somewhere in the future. They just hope to deal with marriage first. Which is good, and gratefully they don't need to get married before baptism though, because they are not living together. But I think that it would be very good for them. What better way to start attending a new church, than when you are newly married, and establishing grounds in the home. :) I'm way excited about them.
They also came with us to the CES Fireside with Elder Jefferey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. It was such a good sermon! I love Elder Holland. I loved when he talked about "Checking our religion at the door." I'm actually listening to that part now, which was awesome! "My young friends, that kind of discipleship cannot be! It is not discipleship at all!" It really made me think about my attitude towards life, and lots of other things. How often do we rationalize and justify ourselves in doing wrong? How often do we forget to watch ourselves? I loved the message. "There will never be enough police officers to replace moral cleanliness, and it never should." That was powerful to me. So much has our world changed to hope that putting evil men behind bars, is going to protect this world. The answer is morality! We have to be clean OURSELVES! That is the purpose of agency, is the Lord wanted us to figure it out ourselves. The Lord did not want us to do what we were not aware of. I am eternally grateful to that truth. In the Miracle of Forgiveness, President Spencer W. Kimball talks about the way that relying upon the laws of the land to protect us in a very literal way PREVENT true repentance-"Repentance is inseparable from time. No one can repent on the cross, nor in prison, nor in custody. One must have the opportunity of committing wrong in order to be really repentant. The man in handcuffs, the prisoner in the penitentiary, the man as he drowns, or as he dies---such a man certainly cannot repent totally. He can wish to do it, he may intend to change his life, he may determine that he will, but that is only the beginning. That is why we should not wait for the life beyond but should abandon evil habits and weaknesses while in the flesh on the earth... Clearly it is difficult to repent in the spirit world of sins involving physical habits and actions. There one has spirit and mind but not the physical power to overcome a physical habit"
We as Disciples of Christ must never ever allow ourselves to be shaken. We must "check our worldliness at the door." As Elder Holland said, "We cannot run from Babylon, we need to attack it!" So I hope we can all be strong, and endure to the end!
Watch carefully everyone, because Satan is out there, and he wants you.
20 For behold, at that day shall he rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good.
21 And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well—and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell. [2 Nephi 28:20-21]
I'm grateful for my Savior Jesus Christ, who can help us to overcome the devil. We can beat him, and we will! Because it is by our Savior real happiness comes.
Elder Prows
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