Haha loved the emails this week!! Love yous
all so much and thanks for the emails!!
Welp, this week was nuts...not really, but I can't think of another intro(: LILIO is getting baptized this Saturday!!!!!!!!
She's finally moving out back with her family in Pavaiai!!!! SOOOO
PUMPED!!! She's so excited too, she can't wait to go to the temple and
do her family history work!!! AHHHHH!!! Another thing, this is just a
little, but SWEET AS experience we had last Pday before our fafaga!! So, as
we walked out to our fafaga, E Tuimauga and I were talking about ways
we could change things up to better move forward the work! And as we
were, we walked by a sister, in her 30s, and as we walked by we said on
instinct, "Malo soifua lau susuga! Ma o faapea!" And then she said in English, "Sorry if I pushing, but what happened to my 2 boys?" And we
asked her to clarify, and she told us that she had been taught all the
lessons, was ready to be baptized, went to church every Sunday, but then changed jobs and began working on Sunday,
so she wasn't' able to continue....this was over 2 years ago. This
testimony builder of preparing ourselves to be ready to take in ANY of
our brethren or sisters in, find the lost sheep, and teach...has changed
and strengthened me as an asset in His work!! It was so sick!!!! And
then, this morning, my E Tuimauga and I cleaned our house,
and then had a water fight as we clean the bathroom, and it was
hilarious....it all started with him though...we were scrubbing the
toilet and dumping water over it to wash off all the Ajax and then he
told me to move the toilet paper so it would get wet, and dumped the
rest of the water all over me, and soaked our bathroom haha!! He took
off running, and I eventually got him back, and then told him he had to
stand in the shower while I poured it, but then I just turned the shower
on instead, WOOOP WOOP!!
And just a spiritual thought for the week....and this is just straight from my study journal on Tues, so bear with me....And I encourage yous to look at all the scriptures too!
Alma 7:24 and Ether 12:28...If we have faith, hope, and charity, then we will ALWAYS
abound in good works (emphasis added)!! Words like that don't get tossed
around in the scriptures!! Promises from the Lord through Alma, if we
obtain and continually show our faith, hope, and charity! And each goes
into deeper context..
FAITH...Faith
in Christ. Faith means acting on promptings, doing good always, and not
just believing. "Even so, faith, if it hath not works, is dead being alone...and I will shew thee my faith BY my works" James 2:17-18. (emphasis added).
HOPE...Having
hope in Christ, meaning you have hope that through the Atonement, you
can be forgiven of your sins. Hope is the basis of our faith! Hebrews
6:19, then Hebrews 11:1!
CHARITY...Charity
is the pure love of Christ. IN order to obtain charity, we must be
humble (meek and lowly in heart), "when we serve others, we are only in
the service of our God" Mosiah 2:17.
Now what is the foundation of ALL these things?? The first and greatest commandment....
LOVE...To love God, with all your heart, might, mind and strength!
To bring it all home.....Moroni 10:19-20, 32-33!!!!!!!
I loves yous all and hope all goes well this week!!!!!!
Love,
Elder Larson
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| #poser!! |
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| Another broken umbrella....! |
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| This was us, this morning...before we came to email...but its' pouring rain right now |
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| Our companion ship in a picture... |
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